Alan Goldsher
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Alan Goldsher
Alan Goldsher is an author and a musician.
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Biography
Music
Goldsher is a session and touring bassist. He has worked on the Cypress Hill remix of Janet Jackson's song "Because of Love" and on the Naughty by Nature-produced debut album by Zhané. Between 1993-94, he toured and recorded with the hip-hop trio Digable Planets, with whom he performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards, as well as on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Arsenio Hall Show, and MTV's Spring Break.
He has performed on the following albums:
- Blowout Comb by Digable Planets (1994)
- Pronounced Jah-Nay by Zhané (1997)
- When the Funk Hits the Fan by King Britt (1998)
- Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles by Digable Planets (2005)
Writing
Goldsher's chick-lit novels The True Naomi Story, Reality Check, and Today's Special were published by Little Black Dress Books in the U.K. in 2008, and the follow-up Superheroine will come in 2011.[1] As a ghostwriter, he's has collaborated on projects with comics Bernie Mac and Fred Willard, actors Michael Madsen and Robert Englund, former NBA player John Salley, and Ironman triathlete Sarah Reinertsen, among others.[2][not in citation given] His Beatles/horror mash-up Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion was published by Pocket Books in 2010.[3] Goldsher's sportswriting has been seen in ESPN The Magazine, NBA.com, and ChicagoBulls.com, and he reviews books for Kirkus.[4][not in citation given] Goldsher is currently working on the novel Frankenstein Has Left the Building, which centers on an undead Elvis Presley as Frankenstein's monster.[5]
He has written a number of other books, which include:
- Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read
- Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- Jam
- The Record Haus
- Dancing to the Music In My Head: Memoirs of the People's Idol(Sanjaya Malakar with Alan Goldsher)
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