'It is with unbelievable pain that we have to share our beautiful band leader, Daniel Sahad passed away last night,' the Austin band Nané said.
Daniel Sahad of Nané performs at a Dolly Parton tribute to benefit Front Steps at Stubb's last July.
Daniel Sahad, the charismatic frontman for the Austin-based indie-soul outfit Nané, has died. He was 29."It is with unbelievable pain that we have to share our beautiful band leader, Daniel Sahad passed away last night," the post read.Sahad started Nané with his songwriting partner Ian Green in 2016, first playing on smaller stages like Stay Gold.
Grammy-winning drummer and producer John Speice, who helped hone Nané’s sound and produced their self-titled 2020 debut, said in a Facebook post that he was “at a complete loss.” “It’s too much,” he wrote. “It’s so unfair that we were robbed of this beautiful boy and all his gifts.”his Afro-Hispanic heritage. The band's moniker, Nańe, was a term of endearment his family called him as a child. Both his parents emigrated to the U.S. in their 20s from the Dominican Republic. Sahad grew up in Amarillo, but he and his sister spent time in the Caribbean nation as kids."I felt a large amount of displacement, both in the Dominican Republic and growing up in Texas .
Sahad and Nańe were primed for a breakout year in 2020 when the pandemic hit. The band made the best of it, parleying a performance of their single"" into a viral NPR Tiny Desk Concert entry that garnered praise from Brittany Howard. The former frontwoman for Alabama Shakes picked Nańe's entry as one of her top 5 favorites from the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest, taking note of Sahad's humor, stage presence and distinctive vocal range.
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