Derek Frank: Eleven Years Later

When the lockdown halted his work with Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain, Derek Frank hunkered down and recorded his triumphant first solo album in eleven years.

Derek Frank: Eleven Years Later

When the lockdown halted his work with Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain, Derek Frank hunkered down and recorded his triumphant first solo album in eleven years.

It’s February 12th, 2020 on the Las Vegas strip and the desert air, filled with cigarette smoke and mixed scents from buffets and all-night diners, travels upwards alongside the noise from the casinos and the crowds surrounding them. The strip is packed, as it always is, or at least now, as it always used to be. Above all of the chaos, Derek Frank relaxes on the top floor of the lounge of the Cosmopolitan, which is positioned across the strip from Zappos Theater, where he just performed with Gwen Stefani as part of her Vegas residency. We sit together in the packed bar sipping on whiskey, talking about his next two years in Vegas being fully booked between performing with Stefani and Shania Twain—two longtime gigs he’s been happily holding down. He explains how lucky he is as a musician to have such secure positions and a calendar booked full for years to come. Being not so far from h
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Jon D'Auria   By: Jon D'Auria