Ed Hale - singer, guitarist
Ed Hale, lead singer and provocateur for Transcendence, is a busy man these days. He spent much of last year dressing up as an army general making the rounds at various protests and marches around the country to speak out against the invasion of Iraq and the reelection of George Bush, in between recording sessions with his band creating their just released and critically acclaimed new CD Nothing is Cohesive. The outspoken frontman is well known for his ambition, and his eccentricities – it is said he sleeps on a couch and has all his life, conducts hours of business in the bath each morning (much to the annoyance of his bandmates), and religiously attends church each week while professing not to know if he believes in God.
Recently relocated to New York City, the singer finds time between filming the new reality show Transcendent Television for Polar Productions, to continue working on a new solo album described as “neo-noise and avant-garde-feedback, no songs, just sounds” called M3II, and is currently jetting back and forth to Miami’s indie-rock oasis Dungeon Recording studios completing the group’s next release All your heroes become villains. As a writer, he has for four years posted daily entries to his online blog, the Transcendence Diaries, now logging in at more than two-thousand pages and boasting a readership of more than 150,000, and is the author of the award-winning screenplay for the road-movie The tribe moves to London .
As a businessman, he sits on the board of an international vitamin company he founded in the late nineties, “as a hobby” he says, owns a clothing line called what else? TranscendentWear — that features 36 different t-shirt designs, and he owns and oversees the band’s independent record label, TMG Records, home to six artists of various musical styles from rock to Americana to hip hop. If that weren’t enough, the singer, who began referring to himself as ‘The Ambassador’ with the release of the band’s 2002 debut CD Rise and Shine, speaks four languages and is now taking classes in French to add to his arsenal. “Ed is a genius and a workaholic in every sense of the word,” says guitarist Fernando Perdomo, “in both the good and the bad ways.”
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