Sandy Rass

Sandy Rass

Sandy Rass (born Alexander Rass on August 28, 1974) is a British songwriter/producer of Fast Food Rockers and others, and a singer, dancer and actor, and a psychology graduate and statistician with an IQ of 162, not only achieving First Class Honours, but graduating top of the University of London, and receiving the Goldsmiths Student Award in 2006, and continuing on into an MSc.

He was born in Chingford, London and trained at the Royal Ballet School for 3 years and then at Italia Conti Academy for a further 3 years as a singer/dancer/actor. As a performer, Rass starred in the West End musicals "Starlight Express" and "Cats", and played leading roles in the UK tours of "42nd Street", "What a Feeling!" and "Living La Vida Loca". He was a backing dancer for numerous pop artists, most notably appearing with Diana Ross at Wembley Stadium, and fronting the pop act REEL2REAL ("I Like To Move It Move It") on the Smash Hits Tour alongside all the major British pop acts at the time.

During his varied career he also featured appearances in operas such as "The Mikado" with the ENO at the Coliseum, "La bohème" at the "Royal Albert Hall", and "The Bartered Bride" and "Tales of Hoffmann" with the Royal Opera Company, before making his name as a pop songwriter.

Writing with Mike Stock, formerly of Stock Aitken Waterman, Sandy most notably co-wrote and co-produced "The Fast Food Song" by The Fast Food Rockers

He is also known for his work as Musical Supervisor and Musical Arranger on the Singapore Repertory Theatre production of "They're Playing Our Song", starring Lea Salonga both in Singapore and Manila in 1999 and 2000, and having radically reworked the musical arrangements of the 1999 London version of Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz's "Pippin" at the Bridewell Theatre.

Among others, Sandy worked with Nick Bridges from Ministry of Sound, Jon Pearn of Full Intention and Amanda Wilson from Freemasons - the singer of hits Love on my Mind and Watchin', writing and co-producing the classic Hed Kandi club hit "Intoxicated" performed by RAW feat Amanda Wilson.


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