Shawn Matthew Fogel was born on December 12, 1981, in New York State.
Education
He continued to learn various other instruments through middle and high school, after which he enrolled in Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied songwriting, performance, audio engineering & studio recording, and music business.
Career
Shawn Fogel is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He began learning how to play music as a young child, picking up the piano in third grade. During his senior year at Hampshire, Fogel used the campus facilities to record, edit, and mix his first full-length album, Millions of Miles Away, all on his own.
The album was released commercially in 2004.
Fogel"s next effort,, was recorded with the record label The Sleepy West and released in late 2007. Fogel also performs with The LeeVees, a New York City rock band that plays contemporary Hanukkah songs for whom Fogel plays bass guitar.
Like the rest of the band members, Fogel maintains a strong Jewish identity, as he is also a songleader for the Garden Empire Region (GER) of the North American Federation of Temple Youths (NFTY). The Zambonis formed in 1991.
Fogel joined in 2006.
Fogel claims his influences to be his mother"s old Beatles LP"s and Stevie Wonder, the latter of whom was specifically his inspiration to record his music in a one-man-band fashion.
Membership
Fogel is also a member of the world"s only all hockey rock band The Zambonis.