Paz Lenchantin (born December 12, 1973 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine-American musician. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four.
She speaks fluent Spanish and English. She was motivated to follow their path and began playing piano at age five. She then took violin lessons at age eight and taught herself how to play guitar at age twelve. Her sister, Ana is a musician and a frequent collaborator. She and her late brother Luciano Lenchantin also collaborated frequently.
Musical career
Lenchantin joined Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese, Troy Van Leeuwen, and Maynard James Keenan in forming the band A Perfect Circle. She contributed to their albums, Mer de Noms, (strings, bass guitar, and backing vocals), and Thirteenth Step (co-writing the song "Gravity"). Lenchantin later left the group to join with Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Sweeney, and David Pajo to form Zwan. In 2002, Lenchantin, with Melissa Auf der Maur (Smashing Pumpkins/Hole), Samantha Maloney, and Radio Sloan (The Need), created a new band called The Chelsea. The all-female supergroup played only one show before going their separate ways. Lenchantin returned to play strings and piano with A Perfect Circle in recording their cover album eMOTIVe, released November 2, 2004 and debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200. She also contributed a solo cover of the song "The Hollow" to A Perfect Circle's CD/DVD release, aMOTION. Since 2005, Lenchantin has been collaborating with Entrance on their album Prayer of Death, as co- producer as well as contributing bass and violin. She also appeared on the previous Entrance album Wandering Stranger (2004). She is now a seemingly permanent member of the Entrance Band.
Other appearances
Lenchantin also appeared on Queens of the Stone Age's album, Songs for the Deaf. She has played with David Pajo in Papa M, and contributed fiddle on the Silver Jews record, Tanglewood Numbers. She has toured with RTX/Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux. In 2002, she performed on TRUSTcompany's album The Lonely Position of Neutral. In 2005 she played violin on the Kaura track "Dividing Lines". She has also contributed to and toured with Jarboe of Swans. Lenchantin also played bass on Brightblack Morning Light's 2006 self-titled album on Matador Records. She worked with director Michael Mann on his film Miami Vice contributing violin on several scenes. She contributed playing "strings" on Melissa Auf der Maur's first solo album Auf der Maur. In 2008, Paz co-wrote the Ashes Divide song "Denial Waits", and she played violin on Jenny Lewis' second studio album Acid Tongue. She will appear on Into The Presence's new album to be released in 2009, playing the bass.
Solo work
Throughout her career as a member of numerous prominent bands Lenchantin has found time to write/produce two of her own solo albums currently available on her MySpace page; Songs For Luci (2006), and Yellow mY skYcaptain (2000).
Solo discography
* Yellow mY skYcaptain (2000)
* Songs For Luci (2006)
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