ZAC LASHER :: Keyboards, vocals

Zac was born and spent his formative years in Montclair, NJ. Being a Jersey boy, he was hooked on Bruce Springsteen from birth (he adds: "I think it's very telling that my first favorite song ["Jungleland" from Born to Run] clocks in at over nine minutes."), he has been playing music since his parents got him piano lessons when he was 4 years old.

He abandoned formal training when he was 11, due to a lack of interest in playing music that other people wanted him to play. Shortly thereafter he began to compose his own music, spending hours of his day in the music room of Glenfield Middle School, at an Ensoniq EPS synthesizer and a Mac SE computer, sequencing tracks when he should have been in math class. To this day, he doesn't know why his teachers let him get away with it, but they did. and he thinks that's pretty darn spiffy.

He has spent the ensuing years listening to everything from classical to rock, jazz to electronica, showtunes to funk, Americana to Afrobeat - and much of what lies in between. He strives for equal diversity in his writing: "If you can smack a label on it - I'm doing something wrong. It's all music to me, and I love music more than anything else."

In his spare time, Zac enjoys staring at clouds and shiny things, and writing about himself in the third person.