Lee Ranaldo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

55

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-02-03 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA

Lee Ranaldo

Biography

Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.

Known For

  • Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

  • Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

    Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

  • Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs

  • Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

  • Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

  • Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

    Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

  • Noise

    Noise

  • Free Tibet

    Free Tibet

  • Vinyl: An Unlikely History

    Vinyl: An Unlikely History

  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

  • Kill Your Idols

    Kill Your Idols

  • Tibetan Freedom Concert

    Tibetan Freedom Concert

  • Peas and Carrots

    Peas and Carrots

  • 365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

  • Skeeno H.C. Rules

    Skeeno H.C. Rules

  • Swans: Where Does a Body End?

    Swans: Where Does a Body End?

  • From the Basement

    From the Basement

  • The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

    The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

  • Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

    Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

  • Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

    Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

  • Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

    Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

  • Omega

    Omega

  • Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

    Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

  • Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

    Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

  • Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

  • 12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2

    12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2

  • Don't Bring A Dog

    Don't Bring A Dog

  • Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

  • Sex and Broadcasting

    Sex and Broadcasting

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

  • Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

    Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

    Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

    Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

  • Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

    Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

  • Sublapse Video Mag 1

    Sublapse Video Mag 1

  • Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

    Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

  • Sonic Youth: 930 Club

    Sonic Youth: 930 Club

  • Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

  • Velvet Suite

    Velvet Suite

  • SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

    SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

  • Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim

    Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim

  • We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

  • Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

    Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

  • Goo

    Goo

  • Record Player: Christian Marclay

    Record Player: Christian Marclay

  • Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

    Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

  • Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

    Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

  • Desolation Center

    Desolation Center

  • New York Rock at the BBC

    New York Rock at the BBC

  • Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

  • (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

  • Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

  • The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection