Andrew Dost

=Andrew Dost= Jump to: navigation, search  Andrew Dost (born April 10, 1983) is a member of the American band [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_(band) fun. ] He plays several instruments for the band.

Life and career
Dost began his musical career as a member of the band Anathallo, which was formed in 2000 at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, with Dost joining in 2003. He left the band halfway through writing the band's album Canopy Glow in 2006; he has said that he left the band because the band had relocated to Chicago and he was not able to move with the rest of the band.

Shortly after he left Anathallo, he began work on a solo album, Columbus (based on a musical he had written in 2005 about the life of Christopher Columbus); this was released in 2008.

In 2008, Nate Ruess (formerly the frontman of The Format) asked Dost to join him and Jack Antonoff (of Steel Train) in a new band, which became fun. Dost was already well acquainted with Ruess and Antonoff because their former bands had all toured together.

While making fun.'s first album, Aim and Ignite, Dost remained based out of Michigan, while Ruess lived in Phoenix, Arizona and Antonoff lived in New Jersey.

Fun.'s second album, Some Nights saw the band score their first #1 hit single, "We Are Young", which Dost co-wrote with Ruess, Antonoff, and Jeff Bhasker.

He also created an original score for the beginning of the Carry On music video in 2012.