Baby Dayliner (AKA Ethan Marunas) is a musical recording and performing artist from and based out of New York City. He was born and raised in New York City, and went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also known as the high school from the 1980 film '' Fame''. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM. After varying roles in different bands, Marunas decided to take the stage as a solo act. He became deft at synths, samplers, and recording, and began crafting songs that would be performed under the Baby Dayliner name. Marunas' first big musical influence was classical as a child violinist. Later came jazz and hip-hop records. His first pop music love was

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, which he listened to alongside Kabuki theater music and other sounds. Baby Dayliner has released two albums on

Brassland Records Brassland is an independent record label founded in 2001 by Alec Hanley Bemis, Aaron Dessner, and Bryce Dessner. History In Brassland's early years, Bemis worked as a freelance journalist for ''LA Weekly'' and ''The New York Times''. The Dessners ...

. He was signed to the label as The National's favorite live performer in New York City. Marunas has opened for a variety of musical acts including

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, The National, and

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. According to Uncut magazine, Baby Dayliner is "a retro romo romp through a New York ghost world that is neither the drainpipe-and-denim sweat pile of CBGBs nor the mirrorball glitz of Studio 54 but somewhere in between."

Discography

*High Heart and Low Estate -- first released August 2002, re-released March 2004 on

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. Mastered by

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. 1. Raid!
2. Hoodlums In The Hit Parade
3. Party Scenes
4. Madeline
5. Beat Downs
6. High Heart & Low Estate
7. Can't Believe
8. Lullabies
9. Dead Ladies
10. I'll Be Your Counterpart
11. Funeral Dirge *Critics Pass Away -- released May 2006 on

1. At Least
2. Critics Pass Away
3. House And Confusion
4. The Way You Look Tonight
5. Through These Hills
6. Whodunit?
7. Go On Baby
8. Breezy
9. Small Town Halls
10. Silent Places
11. Simon Sez
12. Nature's Clause
13. Drop Dead Gorgeous

Sources

*http://brassland.org *https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004217/http://www.insound.com/label/labels.php?id=brasslan&x=13&y=13

External links

Baby Dayliner official siteBaby Dayliner on Brassland RecordsBaby Dayliner on MySpaceBaby Dayliner Guest List on Discollective
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dayliner, Baby American male singers American rock singers Living people Singers from New York (state) Year of birth missing (living people)