Lee Ranaldo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

57

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

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

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

  • Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

    Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

  • Peas and Carrots

    Peas and Carrots

  • Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

    Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

  • Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

    Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

  • Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

    Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

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

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

  • Sublapse Video Mag 1

    Sublapse Video Mag 1

  • 365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

  • Skeeno H.C. Rules

    Skeeno H.C. Rules

  • Desolation Center

    Desolation Center

  • Kill Your Idols

    Kill Your Idols

  • Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

    Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

  • Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

  • Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

    Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke

    1991: The Year Punk Broke

  • Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

    Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

  • Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

    Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

  • Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

    Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

  • Noise

    Noise

  • Tibetan Freedom Concert

    Tibetan Freedom Concert

  • Vinyl: An Unlikely History

    Vinyl: An Unlikely History

  • From the Basement

    From the Basement

  • Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

    Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

  • Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

  • Daddy Longlegs

    Daddy Longlegs

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

    Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

  • Free Tibet

    Free Tibet

  • 12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2

    12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2

  • Don't Bring A Dog

    Don't Bring A Dog

  • Omega

    Omega

  • Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

    Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

  • Swans: Where Does a Body End?

    Swans: Where Does a Body End?

  • Sex and Broadcasting

    Sex and Broadcasting

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

    Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

  • New York Rock at the BBC

    New York Rock at the BBC

  • Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

  • Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

  • Sonic Youth: From The Basement

    Sonic Youth: From The Basement

  • Sonic Youth: 930 Club

    Sonic Youth: 930 Club

  • Velvet Suite

    Velvet Suite

  • Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

    Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

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

    SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

  • Death Valley '69

    Death Valley '69

  • Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

    Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

  • Goo

    Goo

  • Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

    Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

  • We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

  • Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim

    Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim

  • Record Player: Christian Marclay

    Record Player: Christian Marclay

  • Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

    Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

  • (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

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

    Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

  • Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

    Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

  • Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

    Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

  • The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection