Alex Band

Alex Band (born June 8, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known for being the vocalist of Los Angeles rock band the Calling, having performed on their hit song "Wherever You Will Go", which topped the Adult Top 40 for 23 weeks, making it the second-longest-running number 1 in the chart's history and later named the number 1 song of the decade of the 2000s on the Adult Pop Charts by Billboard magazine. Along with friend and fellow songwriter Aaron Kamin, lead guitarist of The Calling, they achieved success with the release of two studio albums; their debut album, Camino Palmero, sold over 5 million copies worldwide and was certified Gold by RIAA, and their second album, Two, sold over 1.5 million copies, achieving hits across the world with the singles "Our Lives", and "Things Will Go My Way". As a solo artist, Alex Band is well known for providing the vocals and face to the 2003 hit "Why Don't You & I" with Carlos Santana. In 2008, he created his own record label, AMB Records, and released a five-song EP entitled Alex Band EP. Band later released his debut full-length album, We've All Been There, in June 2010 with "Tonight" being its lead single, which was used as the theme song for the 2010 World Cup. He released his second EP, After the Storm, in 2012. Early life Alex Band was born in Los Angeles, California, into an entertainment family. His mother is Meda Band (née Robertson), and his father, Charles Band, is a horror film director. His grandfather Albert Band was also another well-known director. Band's father is Jewish and his mother is Christian. Both his parents were raised in Italy and they owned a castle in Giove, Umbria. Band explores spiritual themes in several of his songs, though he claims to be of no particular faith himself. Of the song "Please", Band said; "...I grew up with a Jewish father who didn't practice and a Christian mother whose only tie to Jesus was celebrating Christmas. Needless to say I had to find my own religion. And in this song I'm asking God what that should be...what should I believe? In a world so full of different religions and so many people fighting over whose belief is the correct one, it frustrates me to think that they all really boil down to the same thing."