ARTIST. SINGER. WRITER. PATIENT. HIS BIGGEST FAN. COMIC. COSMIC. PANCAKE MAKER. HIP SHAKER. GAUCHO. NO DIGGITY. DEHYDRATED. AGGREGATED. GAME. SAY MY NAME. SAY MY NAME. PUPPET. POET. PAWN. AND A KING.

- “Hits all the right sweet tart chords with her expertly produced and played album Stripping For Jesus.”
- Entertainment Weekly

“An Aimee Mann who actually gets out of the house and has an intriguingly unrequited ‘outside life’ instead of merely a vividly neurotic ‘inner life.’”
- Jon Bream, Minneapolis music critic

“A strong contender to succeed Liz Phair and Alanis Morissette…pretty melodies with gouging power chords resulting in melodic tunes you can’t dislodge from your head.”
- Request Magazine

“Poetic flair and a keen sense of pop rhythm that lets her songs cascade or slowly burn.”
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

THE STORY:

Singer. Writer. Performer. Poet. From the bars and clubs of Los Angeles to a sold-out two week engagement at the famed House of Live in Paris, Susan Sandberg has become, in the words of Request Magazine, “the strong contender to succeed Liz Phair and Alanis Morissette.”

Her solo debut album, 2000’s STRIPPING FOR JESUS immediately garnered critical acclaim. Senior Writer Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly wrote “Susan Sandberg hits all the right sweet tart chords with her expertly produced and played album.” Two tracks in particular quickly got the attention of film and television producers, with the song “Girl With All The Goodbyes” heard in the hit show “Dawson’s Creek” and the film “Late Last Night.” Another track, “Hey Batter” found even wider appeal, most notably in the smash comedy “There’s Something About Mary.”

National club gigs soon followed, as well as a two-week engagement at the House of Live in Paris, an eclectic club that has showcased such acts as Hootie and The Blowfish, Maroon 5 and Emmylou Harris. Additional tour dates in New York, London, Rome and the Italian Riviera exposed Susan to an ever-widening fan-base. She also played a week of shows in a 600-year-old barn in a privately owned vineyard. (Now there’s a venue where you really look forward to the drink tickets.)

She followed up with her second solo album, 2002’s DOWN COMES THE NIGHT, co-produced by Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms). Once again, critical acclaim heralded her “poetic flair” and “keen sense of pop rhythm.” Minneapolis music critic Jon Bream said the album “suggests an Aimee Mann who actually gets out of the house and has an intriguingly unrequited ‘outside life’ instead of merely a vividly neurotic ‘inner life’.” And once again, Hollywood took notice, using “Mile High” in the Adam Sandler film “Mr. Deeds”, the hit NBC drama “Leap of Faith” and was lip-synched on Pamela Anderson’s hit syndicated show VIP.

Susan created, performed and produced a satirical rock album about a beautifully insipid, all-teen-girl rock band from the . Last year it got the attention of 20th CENTURY/FOX Television and was developed as a television series pilot. The record has been remixed and re-mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Julian King (Toby Keith, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw) at Nashville’s LOUD studios. Three of the singles from that album charted Top Ten throughout Europe, hitting number one in Germany in the Summer of 2005. Another song from the “Runaways-esque” punk album is currently climbing the charts in parody–free Greece.

Later that year she formed the melodic pop trio, TRES DiABLOS with Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms) and Danny Wilde (The Rembrandts). Their first album, GREATEST HITS, VOL. 1 will be released in Summer of 2008.

Susan continues to write for other artists as well. She has five cuts on MAJOR LODGE VICTORY, the Gin Blossoms album, released in August 2006. She co-wrote “Mystery Train Kept A Rollin’” with Brian Setzer for the Stray Cats, their first studio recording in over 13 years, and has also written with Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate and Nashville star Hal Ketchum, among numerous other Nashville-based writers.

 

FILM & TV PLACEMENT:

"Screwed Up’- featured in the Farrelly brother’s THE HEARTBREAK KID (20th Century), starring Ben Stiller

‘Let’s Play Two’ - featured in DRILLBIT TAYLOR (Paramount), with Owen Wilson

‘Hey Batter’ - featured in THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (20th Century) & IT HAD TO BE YOU (Lifetime)

‘Girl with All the Goodbyes’ - featured in DAWSON’S CREEK, LATE LAST NIGHT and LEAP OF FAITH (NBC)

‘Mile High’ - featured Adam Sandler’s comedy MR. DEEDS (Sony), Pamela Anderson’s V.I.P. (Global Ent/Sony)

‘Spark’ - featured in National Lampoon's BAGBOY

‘Long Time Gone’, ‘Original Messed Up Kid’, “I’m Just Your Man” & ‘Another Fine Mess’ - featured in the TV series JOHN DOE (FOX)

‘Trouble Here I Come’, ‘Spark’, “Screwed Up” “You Can Run” & “I’m Just Your Man” - featured in the TV series PEPPER DENNIS (Fox/CW)

Her songs have also been heard in: Fox’s DAREDEVIL with Ben Affleck, Showtime’s “Family Business”, and Bravo’s “Blow-Out”.

Honored with ASCAP Popular Songwriter Award 1997-2009

 

Sandberg’s latest solo album, HOLLYWOOD WALLPAPER, has already gotten numerous film and TV placements and will be released this Spring. Run, don't walk to Itunes NOW.