Darian Sahanaja is a singer, songwriter, and is currently playing in the Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...

 band with The Wondermints

The Wondermints

Wondermints is a band from Los Angeles, California, United States. The main members are Darian Sahanaja , Nick Walusko and Mike D'Amico...

. He has also collaborated with numerous other artists in the genre

Genre

Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

 of orchestral/underground pop, including Baby Lemonade

Baby Lemonade

Baby Lemonade is a band in the neo-psychedelic genre formed in Los Angeles. Their 1998 album Exploring Music was produced by Darian Sahanaja of The Wondermints. The group was Love founder Arthur Lee's backing band prior to his incarceration, and after his release from prison in 2001 until his death...

, Wonderboy, Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann

Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...

, Now People, Lisa Mychols

Lisa Mychols

Lisa Mychols is a singer-songwriter currently living in or around Los Angeles, California. Her first solo album, Lost Winter's Dream, a seasonally-themed masterpiece of 60s-inspired pop, was recorded with the help of Darian Sahanaja and Nick Walusko in 1991 and had a limited release in Japan that...

 and Donna Summer

Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

. Darian is also the musical supervisor for the television show The Replacements

The Replacements (Disney Channel series)

The Replacements is a Disney Channel animated television series that ran originally from July 28, 2006 to March 30, 2009. Although the series originally aired episodes on Saturdays at 8:00pm EST, it was moved to Mondays at 5:00pm EST....

on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 and The Disney Channel.

Sahanaja worked with Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....

 in sequencing and arranging the fragments of Wilson's legendary, ill-fated Beach Boys Smile album into a completed work. The album, started by Wilson in 1966, was finally completed in 2004. Wilson, Sahanaja and the rest of Wilson's band performed Smile

Smile (Brian Wilson album)

Smile, sometimes typeset with the idiosyncratic partial capitalization SMiLE, or referred to as Brian Wilson Presents Smile is a solo album by Brian Wilson, with lyrics by Van Dyke Parks released on September 28, 2004 on CD and two-disc vinyl LP...

both live, and in the studio.

Along with his duties leading Wilson's touring band, over the past year Sahanaja has been performing alongside The Zombies

The Zombies

The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by Rod Argent, on piano and keyboards, and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group scored a UK and US hit in 1964 with "She's Not There"...

 on the 40th anniversary tour of their 1968 masterpiece Odessey and Oracle

Odessey and Oracle

Odessey and Oracle is the third studio album by British pop rock band The Zombies, released on 19 April 1968 by Date Records. It is among the most critically acclaimed albums of popular music.-Album information:...

. Most recently, he performed with Heart

Heart (band)

Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

 at the "Dreamboat Annie Live

Dreamboat Annie Live

Dreamboat Annie Live is a live album released by Heart in October 2007, which features Heart performing all ten songs from their 1976 debut album, Dreamboat Annie, live in concert, plus five extra performances ....

" concert, writing string arrangements, while also playing percussion, keyboards, and singing background vocals.

External links

• Brianwilson.com entry on Darian
• [ All-Music Credits entry for Darian]