Adam Granofsky (born February 15, 1979),[1] better known under his stage name Adam Granduciel, is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the frontman and primary songwriter of the indie rock band the War on Drugs,[2] with whom he has recorded five studio albums, and a former member of Kurt Vile's backing band the Violators.
Adam Granduciel was born in Dover, Massachusetts. His father Mark Granofsky is a first-generation American who was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants.[3]
He attended the Roxbury Latin School of West Roxbury. A French-language pun by a teacher there (Ken Conn) inspired his stage name; "du ciel" means "of the sky" in French.[4] He is a graduate of Dickinson College, where he studied painting and photography.[5]
Production work
Granduciel produced and performed on the English singer-songwriter Sam Fender's third studio album, People Watching, with The War on Drugs set to support Fender on his UK stadium shows at London Stadium and Newcastle's St James' Park. Regarding working with Fender, Granduciel noted: "I fell in love with him. He’s a savant. Sam and the boys came out in March [2024] for about five weeks. We worked on some stuff they’d already started, then we worked on some more stuff from the ground up. It was awesome. I’d never met Sam, but we’d communicated once or twice. I have this picture above the sink in my kitchen, that I took of the boys. Sam, Joe [Atkinson], Dean [Thompson] and Drew, just hanging out in my studio. They inspire each other. It’s like my band: everyone can just sit there for fifteen hours and just hang. You don’t have a wildcard, everyone’s easy and loose, and musical, and good-hearted. It was a blast working together."[6]
Granduciel produced the forthcoming sixth solo studio album by The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, Always Been, scheduled for release on April 4, 2025. The album features Granduciel's The War on Drugs bandmates appearing throughout the album.[7]
Personal life
Granduciel began a relationship with actress Krysten Ritter in August 2014.[8] In February 2019, Ritter revealed that she and Granduciel were expecting their first child.[9] Their son, Bruce Julian Knight Granofsky, was born on July 29, 2019.[10]
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