Sonny Amsterdam

When the hottest girl in your neighborhood finally let you come inside of her mouth, the euphoric serenity that is felt is how Sonny Amsterdam's musical portraits leave you. To quote Stephen Thompson of NPr Music Reviews, Sonny Amsterdam' Smells Like Teen Spirit,' Still Strange And Beautiful. Paralleling the paths of his predecessors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, and Linkin Park, but with the liberating attitude of Hollywood Undead, Sonny Amsterdam, the self proclaimed emperor of the zombies, in his own words, "Is an icon that no one has ever heard of". Like so many kids born backwards into an endless digital landscape of ahistorical rap plenitude, San Jose rap/rocker Dorien Gray (known to the world as Sonny Amsterdam), writes by channeling — and lovingly warping — a carefully curated set of political and social references that can only be classified as revolutionary.