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He is a recording artist songwriter and producer releasing music primarily under the monikers Kanude, LightBody Sound & Val Holler over the past 25 years. His music has been featured in HBO's "True Blood," ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival (in which he composed and performed in a wild downtown rock opera, "One Arm Red: Gospel Truth Family Hour") & early on as the co-composer of Robert Rodriguez'​s critically acclaimed feature film debut "El Mariachi."​ He was a contributing songwriter/founder & performer with post-new wave NYC band Mind Over Matter & later has fronted and managed recording & live projects while based in Berlin, Germany, Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Richmond, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee.