Background
Ethnicity:
Father (Simpson) of Welsh descent; mother (Ahern) of Irish (Ahern, father) and German (Kramer, mother) descent
Daniel Léo Simpson was born in Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey and moved to Alexandria, Virginia when he was four before moving to Arizona with his parents in the late 60's. He is a graduate from the University of Arizona in Tucson with a Masters degree in Composition. He moved to Los Angeles, California in the 90's and worked briefly in Hollywood as a Composer before settling in the San Francisco Bay area where he currently resides.