Neil Sanderson Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Neil Christopher Sanderson is the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the Canadian band Three Days Grace. He cites his influences as John Bonham, Danny Carey and Stewart Copeland. Neil Sanderson was born on December 17, 1978. Sanderson took up the piano before he started school. He had an avid interest in music and worked with different instruments while he was in elementary school. He became enamored of drums during this time He entered the Norwood, Ontario high-school in 1992,before that he attended Adam Scott C.V.I high school in Peterborough Ontario, and met Adam Gontier, both... MORE

Neil Christopher Sanderson is the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the Canadian band Three Days Grace. He cites his influences as John Bonham, Danny Carey and Stewart Copeland. Neil Sanderson was born on December 17, 1978. Sanderson took up the piano before he started school. He had an avid interest in music and worked with different instruments while he was in elementary school. He became enamored of drums during this time He entered the Norwood, Ontario high-school in 1992,before that he attended Adam Scott C.V.I high school in Peterborough Ontario, and met Adam Gontier, both of them were in Grade 9. With bassist Brad Walst, they practiced writing and playing instruments. With Phil Crowe and Joe Grant, they created the band "Groundswell". Sanderson was also the drummer for the band Thousand Foot Krutch from 1996 to 1997. Groundswell reformed as Three Days Grace in 1997. Under the name "Three Days Grace" the band played various concerts and locations in Toronto and eventually signed a recording contract with the American label, Jive Records. The band's first album, the self titled Three Days Grace, was released in 2003. Three singles from the album, "I Hate Everything LESS