Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay is one of those artists who makes you question everything you thought you knew about music, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Born in Virginia but raised in Brazil, he absorbed bossa nova and tropicália at a formative level, and that collision with New York's no wave scene in the late 1970s — as a founding member of the abrasive, gloriously chaotic trio DNA — produced something genuinely unlike anything else. The man plays guitar as if the instrument owes him nothing, all clatter and controlled dissonance, yet he'll pivot to singing the most tender, almost classical Brazilian melody you've ever heard. His 1980s project Ambitious Lovers leaned further into that sensuality without losing the edge. Decades in, he's still out there making records that refuse to be filed anywhere neatly, and I find that quietly heroic.

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Name (English)

Arto Lindsay

Name (Japanese)

アート・リンゼイ

Reading

あーと・りんぜい

Born

May 28, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer / composer / record producer / singer-songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

• Official sitehttps://artolindsay.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arto%20Lindsay
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BC%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q591445

Tags

• Virginia
• guitarist
• singer
• composer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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