Cindy O'Connor
Biographical Information

Cindy was born in Santa Fe, NM and raised in Japan, New York and Los Angeles. Her parents knew she had a musical future when at age 5 she wrote a song on her little keyboard called The Aku-Aku Foot Disease (OK, a strange musical future...)

She took a detour into acting at UCLA’s Theater, Film & Television department, but she soon found herself playing piano for everything on campus and writing songs for theater productions. Meanwhile she was honing her pop & rock chops playing and singing in a bunch of bands you’ve never heard of in L.A. clubs.

Currently she divides her time between playing and writing music. As a keyboard player she has played everything from classical concerts to rock & roll to techno. She started playing with Pat Benatar in May of 2000 and it is her favorite gig so far! In the theater world she has written several musicals, which have been performed throughout the USA and for which she has won 3 ASCAP Pop Performance Awards. Her musical All That He Was has been presented at the Kennedy Center and at the Festival of the Human Voice in Barcelona.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

LIVE:

  • Pat Benatar band since the Summer 2000 Tour.
  • Mark Isham
  • Kate Ceberano
  • L.A. Jazz Choir (Grammy-winning vocal ensemble)
  • Rosemary Clooney
  • Isak Rahm and The Blue Diva
  • Pacific Swingline - a cappella quintet
  • The Doppler Effect
  • Five Easy Pieces

RECORDING:

  • All That He Was original cast recording
  • L.A. Jazz Choir - An Evening of Popular Classics
  • David Cassidy - Stand And Be Proud song and video
  • Isak Rahm and The Blue Diva - Sweet Light
  • Bebu Silvetti - Amazon
  • Out On Broadway theater compilation album

FILM/TV:

  • FAMILY LAW - TV series
  • WASTED - feature film
  • IMPOSTOR - feature film
  • THE PRINCESS DIARIES - backup vocals on "Supergirl Remix"
  • THE MAJESTIC - feature film
  • MOONLIGHT MILE.- feature film
  • Commercials - Discover, Saturn, PBS

THEATER:

  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Evita
  • A Chorus Line
  • Annie
  • Godspell
  • A Little Night Music
  • Baby
  • Romance, Romance
  • Lucky Stiff

LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS:

  • Studied Shakespeare with the bohemians in Topanga at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
  • Once worked as a singing telegram girl
  • Has been a contestant on three game shows - and won! (Scrabble, 100,000 Pyramid, and Scattergories)

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