Artist Profile

Panda Bear

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Agent: Rebecca Prochnik

Noah Lennox, known professionally as Panda Bear, is an experimental rock musician and a founding member of Animal Collective. He chose the name "Panda Bear" because he drew pictures of pandas as artwork on the recordings he made as a younger musician.

Lennox grew up in the Roland Park section of Baltimore, Maryland, and attended high school in Pennsylvania. As a child, he played sports and studied piano and cello. He later sang tenor in his high school chamber choir. Lennox and Animal Collective member Deakin (Josh Dibb) have been friends since the second grade.

Panda Bear created his first solo record, the long out-of-print, first (and last) album on his and Deakin’s (Joshmin) Soccer Star Records. Panda then made his way to University in Boston. Trouble and crazy things happened so he came down to New York at the turn of the millennium to congregate with his recently-convened Animal brethren (Avey Tare, Geologist, and Deakin). The Animal Collective was born again.

When not working on Animal Collective material, Panda Bear creates lots of music by himself and with Scotty Mou (DJ Casio/Queens) in Jane. He also makes jams with the other Animal bros and Rusty Santos for fashion shows as Together.