Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Synth/Key Bass
Audio & Video Production; Live Sound
Music Preparation & Copying
NYC-based AFM Local 802 Union Member
Broadway Sub / Deputy

daranjo@me.com
ddaranjo@alumni.berklee.edu

Dave is a bassist and producer originally from the Republic of Singapore. He is a triple graduate of Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music and an alumni of The Bass Collective in NYC. He has toured the world as a musician and played a wide array of styles – from the gritty punk of CBGB (2006) to the bright lights of Broadway (2022) – and everything in between. In 2008, he appeared on Groove Workshop – an instructional DVD by five-time Grammy award-winning bassist Victor Wooten. Dave was the founder of Interrobang Records, a jazz & world music record label that specialized in supporting the music of recent Berklee graduates. He’s also a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and a voting member of The Recording Academy – having attended Grammy Awards ceremonies in 2014, 2017, and 2018.

Dave’s Broadway debut was on November 6, 2022 for Hamilton: An American Musical at NYC’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, where he continues to periodically sub on electric, upright, and synth bass. He’s also covered the bass chair on the North American ‘Philip’ Tour (February 27 – March 10, 2024) on their run in Colombia, South Carolina; as well as served as Deputy Bassist for the International Tour‘s stop in his hometown of Singapore (April 17 – June 9, 2024).

Dave’s (online) Off-Broadway debut was in November 2020 at New World Stages NYC for a streaming concert of the original musical The Perfect Fit by then 13-year-old phenom Joshua Turchin. Dave was credited as Bassist and Assistant Music Director, and was instrumental in many aspects of contracting, helping with the band arrangements, and originating the bass book.

Dave’s Off-Off Broadway debut was in January 2017, when he was honored to play bass for the 50th Anniversary celebration of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical at the historic LaMaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City (“Coffeehouse Chronicles #139”). This show featured many members of the original Hair Tribe – including André De Shields and Annie Golden – as well as writer Jim Rado and composer Galt MacDermot.

Aside from playing in countless bands of all music genres, Dave has also had the pleasure to play bass for hundreds of singers via cabarets at venues such as Feinstein’s/54Below and Green Room 42. Other esteemed producers and venues include: Sony Hall, the Broadway Dreams Foundation, City Winery New York, the Berklee Performance Center, the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, the Rockefeller Centre Rainbow Room, and more. Dave’s regional theater and development rehearsal credits include musicals such as Almost Famous, In the Heights, Spring Awakening, Legally Blonde, AIDA, The Wiz, Next to Normal, RENT, Avenue Q, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Fancy Nancy, The Last Five Years, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Songs for a New World, Dreamgirls, Pippin, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Godspell, d’ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical, Bring It On, and Medusa – to name a few.

pronounced: duh-RAN-joe
not spelled: d’Aranjo, D’Aranjo, D’arango, durago, etc.

pronouns: he, him, his

Here are some fun Easter Eggs from my old website!
– A MacQuarium I built in 2008 in Singapore.
– Mushroom Alley: weird sketches from a guy’s trip to Bali in 2006.
– Darangolinni’s Bistro: my first Geocities site circa 2001.