Andrew Paul Dost (born April 10, 1983) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, and current member of the indie rock band Fun., in which he plays several instruments, mainly the keyboard. He was formerly a member of the indie rock band Anathallo from 2000 to 2008.
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 album Canopy Glow in 2006; he has said that he left because the band had relocated to Chicago and he was not able to move with.
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 2009.
In 2008, Nate Ruess (former frontman of The Format) asked Dost to join him and Jack Antonoff (of Steel Train) in a new band, which became Fun. Dost already knew the two, because their former bands had toured together.