Florida-based Hope Darling, create music with beautifully passionate vocals, blissful melodies, and a brilliantly immersive full-band sound that’s been entrancing audiences for over five years now.
Hope Darling joins together the talents of Gabriel Sanchez lead singer and primary song writer for the band. Jason Donadio lead guitar and vocalist, Jeff Durso on the drums, Frank Dancey on rhythm guitar and vocals, finally Richard Gomez on bass guitar and vocals.
Rising from the Tampa music scene, the five-piece gathered a broad range of influences over time, playing shows and taking on-board inspiration from Rock as much as Blues, Classical, Reggae and even Hip-Hop.
Having built a name for themselves on the local scene, the band began to branch out, soon
finding themselves playing nationally and even opening up the Tampa 97X Next Big Thing
Concert; an honor that has since been motivating them to push their sound and their work
ethic further and further. That same year saw them nominated as a Breakout Band by
TouchTunes digital jukeboxes, and the rest has been history in the making.
What sets the band apart is their song writing – their musicianship is second to none,
but their song writing is equally compelling, captivating, and increasingly memorable.
Offering up emotionally loaded pop-rock and alt-rock anthems, their releases and their live
shows bring audiences together in a beautifully unified and powerful way.
The single Lifeline has been creating waves, thanks in part to being featured in Spike Lee’s
Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It”. Along with local and national airplay, the song has seen the band soar higher than ever before, and things look set to keep on growing and evolving for the hard-working and dedicated group.
Hope Darling returned to the studio, and finished their new album which was released in the Winter of 2022. Fusing thoughtful lyricism with incredibly moving, uplifting, and energizing musicianship, Hope Darling have already amassed an impressive catalogue of achievements, but this is still very much the beginning.