Andrew Bryant Ross is an American musician. He has been the guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for the
rock
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band
OK Go
OK Go is an American Rock music, rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar, bass, backing vocalist, v ...
since 2005. He is also behind a solo project, Secret Dakota Ring, which released albums in 2004 and 2008. Ross is also co-founder of
Serious Business Records, a label under which Secret Dakota Ring publish their records.
Biography
Ross attended
Mass Academy, then
Columbia University
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, where he studied computer science in the
engineering school
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, and became the bassist for the band Unsacred Hearts and guitarist for DraculaZombieUSA. Ross was also the bassist for a brief stint in early 2000s indie band Cold Memory, and was also the headliner for The A-Ross Experience. Other early bands include Phter, D-Funky and the Beechmont Chilles, and Conjugal Visit.
In 2004, he released an album, ''Do Not Leave The Baggage All the Way'', under his solo project Secret Dakota Ring. Ross described his freshman album as a "breakup album" at a Google artists performance.
In early 2005, he became a member of OK Go after auditioning to replace the band's former guitarist and keyboardist
Andy Duncan, who left after production on their second album, ''
Oh No'', was finished.
A second Secret Dakota Ring album, entitled ''Cantarell'', was released on November 11, 2008.
Discography
Studio albums
with Secret Dakota Ring
* ''Do Not Leave Baggage All the Way'' (2004)
*''Cantarell'' (2008)
with
OK Go
OK Go is an American Rock music, rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar, bass, backing vocalist, v ...
* ''
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky'' (2010)
* ''
Hungry Ghosts'' (2014)
* ''
And the Adjacent Possible'' (2025)
References
External links
Band blog
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Living people
1979 births
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American indie rock musicians
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Musicians from Worcester, Massachusetts
Grammy Award winners
OK Go members
Guitarists from Massachusetts