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Daniel Franck Hermanny was born April 19, 1974 in Nîmes. He is a musician and bassist, member of metal band Adagio since 2001
                                         Franck begins with classical studies at the Conservatoire de Nimes and studied violin at the age of 6 years.
It was his father, an amateur musician, who offers him a bass at the age of 17. After starting to listen to Heavy metal groups like Metallica or Iron Maiden, Frank discovered jazz-rock and fusion through the Canadian group Uzeb and bassist Alain Caron.
In 1992 Frank studied at the Music Institute of Vocational Education (IMFP) in Salon de Provence for a year to learn the basics of jazz and Latin music. He also played in various bands and orchestras of times, and in subsequent years, tirelessly working the instrument.
He turned professional in 1994.
In 1998, after studying the double bass (jazz), Frank joined the famous French virtuoso guitarist Cyril Achard, with whom he recorded a live album (Against Merger) and album (In Inconstantia Constans, which plays the guitarist / keyboardist Tony MacAlpine).

Cyril Achard Trio performed in various festivals alongside groups such as Trio Morglbl Christophe Godin. Frank also plays in the formation of the variety show "Cocktail Night" since 1998.
In 1999 he met Stéphan Forté. The latter asked him to join the project on which he works, and would become a year later the group Adagio.
The recording of their debut album Sanctus Ignis Karlsdorf takes place in Germany in the studio "House Of Audio" and is produced by Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69).

Adagio in his career continues with the album Underworld:
The output of the album was followed by the group's first tour as headliners, during which recorded his first album Adagio A Band In Upperworld Live at a concert at the Elysee Montmartre concert hall that the group find still headlining tour during the next album Dominate, and several times thereafter.
Meanwhile, Frank has also participated in the German tour and part of the French tour group Taboo Voodoo, replacing his friend bassist Ivan Rougny of Morglbl Trio.
This group is a project of guitarist Cyril Achard and famous drummer Mike Terrana (Rage, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tarja Turunen).

Frank plays occasionally with the band Venturia, with whom he participated in a TV show Switzerland, "Rock Scene", broadcast on TSR famous Swiss television channel.

February 2009, output of the fourth album from Adagio, Archangels In Black. The disc receives a warm welcome in France and abroad, Rolling Stone will devote even a short and glowing article [1].

Apart from Adagio, Franck shares his passion for the bass: it performs its double bass licks instructional DVD in 2008.
He even participate in various events, like the Musik Messe Frankfurt as a demonstrator on the Markbass booth, mark bass amps to worldwide fame, with Alain Caron and Hadrien Feraud.
Franck has written several columns for teaching purposes in Guitarist Magazine, Bass Player Magazine, covering techniques used on low Archangels In Black album.

Passionate about the composition, he studied the art of arrangement and orchestration component also in a context related to the audiovisual (pub music, theater, movies) and participates in various short films ...
In December 2009, he performed on stage with Patrick Rondat, (guitarist Jean-Michel Jarre).
It also occurs with the guitarist and drummer John Fontanille Keuj (Watcha, Pascal Obispo) at concerts and master classes in various schools of music known.
Frank teaches bass at Nimes and give private lessons.

In 2009, Patrick Roy MP, following a political speech at a session of the National Assembly where he mentions the name of the group met with members of Adagio and visits them backstage assistant also has several of their Shows , claiming to be one of their biggest fan.
When the new album, the band performed on stages like the famous Hellfest Métallurgicales or, in the first part of the Group Trust.

Since 2001, Frank was loyal to Yamaha bass, mark, which had led since the beginning of Adagio. But in 2009, he collaborated with the prestigious brand Ibanez, now playing on models SR Prestige OL 500E, 706K SR, and SR Ashula, unique model of mid-bass fretted / fretless, limited edition. A demo video is playing this bass and Franck single is available on the Ibanez site and on the official YouTube channel of the Japanese [2].
In 2009, Frank participated in the recording of new album of solo Cyril Achard Trio, Violencia.
In March 2010, Adagio joined the American group Kamelot, during his European tour in March / April 2010 that ends with a concert at Prog & Power Metal Fest in Belgium with the Scorpions. During this tour, Adagio occurs with Mats Leven as a singer (Therion, Yngwie Malmsteen).
This year will mark the republication of old albums of the band, Sanctus Ignis, Underworld, and the live album A Band In Upperworld, which was previously available only in Japanese import.
A new pressing of Archangels In Black was born in a format "De Luxe", including an unpublished bonus: separate tracks for three songs, allowing the listener to make their own mix by using editing software .
Since November 2010, members of Adagio working on writing the fifth studio album along with their new singer, Kelly Sundown Carpenter.
In October 2010, laying low Franck's first solo album of his friend Stéphan Forté of Adagio guitarist, "The Shadows Compendium" whose output is planned for 2011.
He was invited to the Music Fair, music & you in Paris on 20 and 21 November 2010 to defend the colors of brands and Ibanez Markbass booth Mogar music France with Alain Caron, Herman Li and Patrick Rondat.
November 14, 2011, Stéphan Forté and Franck occur during the festival "Jason Becker: Not dead yet". Franck will sideman on the pieces of Stephan, from his solo album, on which he recorded the bass parts as well as sets of guitarists Daniele Gottardo, Marco Sfogli-guitarist solo project of James Labrie (Dream Theater) - and Atma Anur, drummer on albums by Jason Becker, Cacophony, and virtually all artists Shrapnel 1980s.
Franck has shared the stage with bassist Stuart Hamm during this evening event, which will also see Guthrie Govan, Michael Lee Firkins, Kiko Loureiro, Mattias Eklundh performing on stage.
January 2012, Franck was interviewed for the magazine Bass Musician Magazine and the cover of the January issue of [3].
This new year should see the output of the fifth studio album Adagio, as well as that of the "solo" Franck's "Massive Dynamik" with guitarist Richard Daudé and a tour of master-classes of bass ...
Franck uses techniques as varied qu'inhabituelles on the instrument. The sweeping (or sweep), slap phrasing, the technique of return per inch (Slap round trip) (where the thumb is used as a pick), and also the game at 3 (thumb-index-finger) 4 or gestures (thumb / thumb-index-finger).
The use of artificial harmonics, and the bend, reverse bend, glissando, and generally used by guitarists - are also part of his technique.
Although influenced mainly by rock, metal and fusion, Franck uses in improvisation and solos elements borrowed from Jazz as arpeggios and chromatic approaches ...
Equipment
* 5006 Ibanez SR Prestige Lyon
Ibanez SR 706 * K
* Ibanez SR 2010 ASC / Ashula
* 2 Yamaha TRB6 IIP (2001 to 2010)
* Ken Smith BT6G 6 strings (from 1998 to 2001)
* Concklin Groovetool 7 strings
* Fretless 6 string Ibanez SDGR
* Markbass Amplification System
* (Live / Adagio):
* Classic 300 Classic 108 is 2x Cabinets
* Mini CMD 121P
Discography
With Adagio
* (2001) - Sanctus Ignis (NTS / Wagram)
* (2003) - Underworld (NTS / Wagram)
* (2004) - A Band In Upperworld / Live / Japanese Release (Avalon Marquee)
* (2005/2006) - Dominate (Sony / BMG)
* (2009) - Archangels In Black (Listenable Records)
* (2010) - Underworld (Reissue Version) - (XIII Bis Records)
* (2010) - A Band In Upperworld / Live (Reissue Version) - (XIII Bis Records)
Other
* (2001) - Cyril Achard's Morbid Feeling - ... In inconstancia constans (Lion Music)
* (2002) - The Alchemists - (guitar compilation) (Lion Music)
* (2003) - Beyond Inspiration - A Tribute Uli Jon Roth (Lion Music)
* (2004) - Shawn Lane Remembered Vol.1 (Lion Music)
* (2004) - Shawn Lane Remembered Vol.2 (Lion Music)
* (2008) - Cyril Achard / Unreleased Collection 1992-2008 (Lion Music)
* (2010) - Cyril Achard - Violencia (Lion Music)
* (2011) - Stéphan Forté - The Shadows Compendium (Listenable Records)


DVD
- "Jason Becker not dead yet" Festival DVD