He is a musician, producer and composer and the son of the jazz pianist Ben Sidran who was raised in Madison, Wisconsin, and studied at the University of Wisconsin.
He studied and lived in Seville, Spain, for a year and later relocated to New York from Madison.
He was taught to play the drums by Clyde Stubblefield and the guitar by Steve Miller. He performed with Ben Sidran, his father, in The Steve Miller Band while he was still a teenager and also had his songs recorded by him.
He has released 5 solo albums and produced the soundtrack for the film The Motorcycle Diaries as well as scoring for more than 100 TV commercials and feature-length documentaries.
In 2014 he started the podcast called The Third Story.
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