At the age of six, singer/songwriter, Andrew Santagata received his first guitar and a copy of KISS Alive II, and the rest is history. Fast forward a few years.Andrew has been a member of two semi-regional east coast acts, A Breed Apart and his solo band Santagata. Since joining A Breed Apart in 2003, Andrew has already had the opportunity to play the Locobazooka! festival four years in a row. The first three years, A Breed Apart played the main stage alongside such acts as Alice In Chains, Disturbed, Buckcherry, Shinedown, Saliva, Damageplan (RIP Dime), while playing to crowds of thousands of people with huge response. Then in 2007, Andrew returned to Locobazooka with his new solo band, Santagata, sharing the bill with such acts as Alice Cooper, Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath with Dio) and Queensryche. At Locobazooka 2007, Santagata released their first CD titled 'A Fire Inside'. All four tracks from this CD were licensed over to Versailles Records for various compilations. In 2008, Andrew appeared on "Lick It Up: A Millennium tribute to KISS" (Versailles/Sony overseas), which saw first week sales of over 4,000 units. Also in 2008, Andrew reunited with A Breed Apart one last time for their third, and Andrew's final release with the band, 'Creates A Scar'. Supporting 'Creates A Scar' included a slot on the Rock The Ink festival with headliners Godsmack. Then in 2009, Andrew released his first ever digital box set entitled "15 Years: The Box - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly". Currently in 2010, Santagata did some tour dates with Kittie and God Forbid in March, the band is also busy in the studio with mega-producer/engineer Phil Greene (Dropkick Murphys, Mighty Bosstones, NKOTB, Eddie and The Cruisers Soundtrack, ect) recording new material for their forthcoming CD "Into The Black and Everything After", the first single "Hopeless" is due for release July 2010.
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Former A Breed Apart frontman Andrew Santagata is currently gearing up for the release of his first ever career spanning digital box set titled '15 YEARS:THE BOX - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY'. This digital box
set will only be available here and contain over 100 songs to stream and download. This set will cover Andrew's career starting in 2008 and going all the way back 15 years to 1993. The box will also include a ton
of live demos, studio demos and rarities and include material from A Breed Apart, Santagata, 1971, Andy Kelli Band, The Need, Negative 373 (formerly Oliver Daisy Skull) and a bunch of unreleased Andrew Santagata solo material.
**An 'Official' release date for the box set and downloads will be announced when the box is complete. For now, feel free to sample it early and listen to 80 songs that have been added so far. An official release date and more material will be added in the coming weeks, so keep checking back.
'15 YEARS: THE BOX - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY' (1993-2008)
Digital box set band credits:
Tracks 1-4 - Santagata (solo material)
Tracks 5-31 - A Breed Apart
Tracks 32-43 - Negative 373
Tracks 44-51, 53-57 - Various Solo Material
Track 52 - 1971
Tracks 58-87 - Andy Kelli Band (aka The Need)
