Cordero

Ani Cordero created and fronted a new bilingual indie-rock band in Tucson Arizona in early 1999. She borrowed members of Tucson's Calexico and Giant Sand and called the group by her Puerto Rican family name, Cordero. By 2000, Ani had moved to New York City and reformed the band with her husband, music/art star, Chris Verene (formerly of Merge Records' The Rock*A*Teens and D.Q.E. ).

Cordero quickly grew to a national level through three albums on Amy Ray's Daemon Records , touring nationally supporting Los Lobos , Indigo Girls, Trailer Bride, Calexico, and appearing in major US cities with Ozomatli , Neko Case (part of her ‘Tigers” sessions), Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra , Luna , Robi Draco Rosa , El Vez , Julie Doiron, Rosie Thomas , Michael Tolcher , Josh Joplin , Lucero , Los Abandoned , Smokey and Miho , Jesse Malin , Tim Easton .

In 2005, New York Rock super couple Ani Cordero and Chris Verene front the group, and have become quite famous in the New York Artworld and the New York Rock scene simultaneously. Cordero has hundreds of dedicated fans in New York and other east coast cities and has been featured on National Public Radio , CNN en Espanol, The New York Times, The Fader Magazine, among many others. Ani's Atlanta, Georgia background as drummer for Man Or Astroman?, and touring with Moe Tucker (Velvet Underground) , Cuban Cowboys , have brought her to new fame as drummer for Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham (of LUNA), and a new Latin-pop folklorico group, Pistolera . Cordero's drummer Chris Verene is internationally heralded as the author of his eponymous book of photographs featured everywhere from the NBC TV “Friends” studio set to the New York Times Book Review Critic's Pick List. Chris and Ani have worked on art projects in many major museum collections and Chris has been profiled in nearly every important contemporary art publication in the world.

Cordero plays with a revolving backing group: currently with bass guitar by Eric Eble also of Reid Paley Trio (recently opening for THE PIXIES). Horns for Cordero are provided by Omar Little, nephew of hit songwriter Frankie Lymon. In the past, Cordero has boasted members Eric Biondo (Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra) Jon Petrow (Cloud Room, Gachupin), Lynn Wright (Gachupin, James Hall), F.A. Blasco (Interpol, Slow Whitey) and Paul Watson (Sparklehorse).