Person
Lili Haydn
Sound
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- Dec 25, 1969
- From
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lili Haydn is an American rock violinist, vocalist, actress, and composer. As a child, she pursued a career as an actress; at age eight she discovered the violin and began to focus on classical music. By the time Haydn was 15, she had played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After graduating from Brown University with a BA in political science, Haydn started composing original songs and became one of the most requested session violinists around Los Angeles. By the time she signed with Atlantic in 1997, she had embraced a variety of genres, having played with Quwaali musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Porno for Pyros, Tracy Chapman, The Jayhawks, Brandy, Tony! Toni! Tone!, No Doubt, Tom Petty and more. In addition, she has played with, sung with, and opened for Sting, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Matchbox 20, Seal, and George Clinton, who calls her "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin".
Credits

Californication

Jack Frost

Easy Money

Hart to Hart

St. Elsewhere

Making Love

Not Quite Human

Great Performances

Mrs. Columbo

American Playhouse

The New Gidget

Somewhere Between

Woody Allen: A Documentary

The Town

Bad Faith

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

DriverX

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward