Vacationer is an American

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and

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band based in

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, United States. It is composed of

Kenny Vasoli Kenneth Robert "Kenny" Vasoli is an American singer and musician from Pennsylvania. Vasoli is currently the lead singer and songwriter of The Starting Line, Person L, and Vacationer. Biography Kenneth "Kenny" Robert Vasoli was born May 20, 198 ...

(lead singer/bass), Ryan Zimmaro (drums), Michael Mullin (keyboards/backing vocals), Greg Altman (guitar/backing vocals). Song writing is done primarily by Kenny Vasoli.

History

Vasoli expressed interest to Matt Watts, his manager and friend, about doing an electronic project after being inspired by

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and other acts at the 2010

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Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Watts connected Vasoli to the band

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which had a studio based in the neighborhood of

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, Brooklyn called Landau Audio Design (LAD) . After one session the song "Great Love" was started and the musical relationship was established. Subsequent instrumental recordings were started in Brooklyn and sent to Vasoli, who would add vocals and bass guitar. The songs started to take on tropical qualities due to Young's collection of

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n, Hawaiian and Tropicalia Records. Most songs were sketched over email exchanges and then fleshed out at LAD. Of the first 5 songs recorded "Trip" was decided to be the lead song and was self released in April 2011. Due to its press and publicity, it earned the attention of several labels including

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, which signed the band. The band released its first LP in 2012 on Downtown Records called Gone. It reached number 42 on the

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chart in the U.S. The band toured consistently throughout 2012 and early 2013 with Asteroids Galaxy Tour,

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and

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. On June 24, 2014 the band released their second studio album, titled ''Relief''. The album charted at number 10 on the Top Heatseekers chart. On June 22, 2018, the band released their third studio album ''Mindset'' on Downtown Records. On September 27, 2019, Kenny released instrumental album ''Wavelengths'' on Paxico Records.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

*"Trip" (Downtown Records 2011) *"Gone" (Downtown Records 2011) *"The Wild Life" (Downtown Records 2014) *"Magnetism" (Downtown Records 2018) *"Being Here" (Downtown Records 2018)

References

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