The Orange Opera: Biography

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• Electric Light Orchestra
• Badfinger
• The Beatles
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Genre:

Rock Music

Decades Active:

2000's

The Orange Opera's whimsical power pop is largely created by singer/songwriter Kevin Hambrick, who founded the band while maintaining a concurrent solo career in the early 2000s. Hailing from Ft. Wayne, IN, the quartet funneled an appreciation for E.L.O., Badfinger, and the Beatles into a slightly more contemporary context, replete with lyrics about ice cream stores and football games. The combination helped earn the Orange Opera a regional following, and the four bandmates bassist Bryan Brubaker, guitarist Michael Ostermeyer, drummer Kevin Hockaday, and multiinstrumentalist Hambrick supported their craft with a handful of selffinanced releases, including the 2008 effort Ant Muscle.

- Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide