Evan De Anda

I’m like hey what’s up hello 📸 - @brightlight.media_

Menagerie (the song) is now yours today. - What a surreal thing to finally say. This song has been on the back burner for many years at this point. I started writing this song in December of 2022, and I ended up doing a near-complete mix of this song a few months later. However, I never released it. I painstakingly overthought every single part of production. Going back and forth on this song made me lose faith in it, so I shelved it. I ended up not releasing another song for years. It wasn’t until I performed this song live a few times (with some extremely talented people I must add) and started helping a friend of mine with the OST for his video game mod that I started regaining my confidence. All of this led me to revisit “Menagerie” and finally release it, and I couldn’t think of a better song to signify my return to releasing music. This song’s about not letting your past struggles and experiences define who you are. About finding meaning and purpose outside of one’s own pain. I’ve always considered this song to be the antithesis of another song I wrote, “Blink and You’ll Miss It”. It’s cool to see how far I’ve come since writing that song. “Menagerie” is one of the songs I’m most proud of, and I wrote it with a whole lot of love. I hope y’all enjoy it! - Special Thanks to: - Rolf Rydahl ( @riley.theproducer ) for helping me mix and master this track. You helped this song finally become what I envisioned, and I am so grateful. - William Downs ( @not_willdowns ) for giving me notes and encouragement while finalizing this song. You saw potential in this song that I couldn’t see myself. - Anyone who has helped me perform this song live. Y’all made me fall in love with this song all over again. - #evandeanda #singersongwriter #songwriter #music #newmusic #songwriter #song #diymusic #acoustic #guitar #deanda #evandeandamusic #indierock #alternativerock #altrock #menagerie

live! from the 101 📸 - @joel.arndt.photo

the darkness of the music of the night 📸 - @0__spooky__0

all showcased out - - - - - - - - - 📷 - @joel.arndt.photo

Electric LaTex ‘25 at UT Austin. It was a pleasure to be among such talented composers and technologists!

Went for the coffee, stayed for the music. Thanks for having me @msctownhall - - - - - - - 📷 - @blokker05

“The Italians are very codependent”

"Ethereal", the string quartet composition that I presented a few months back, is out now, along with the full "theatrical" performance on Youtube. Now that I have more downtime, I was able to make an edited down version of the composition and post it on streaming platforms. I hope you enjoy it! Thank you again to Grace Roffall, Madison Montoya, Jose Lima-Tapia, and Dan Selle for making this piece come to life and making it sound great (and for putting up with me breaking during some of the takes). - - - - - - - - - - #newmusic #contemporarymusic #music #stringquartet #stringmusic #classical #composition #classicalcomposition #classicalcomposer

Thanks for a great first year, Aggieland.

Thanks for having us for an acoustic set, Hullapalooza. De Anda will be back in the Fall Semester for more shows! - - - - Our names are Evan, Gerry, Rachael, and Miguel. We are De Anda.

"De Anda" will make their formal debut as a band this Sunday at the Grand Stafford Theater in downtown Bryan. We'll be with you shortly, Hullapalooza. - - - - - #tamusic #hullapalooza #collegestation #tamu #a&m #music #shows #gigs #gigem #evandeanda #deanda #bryan #grandstaffordtheater