Andy Ross

Andrew Bryant Ross is an American musician. He has been the guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist for the rock band OK Go since 2005. He is also behind a solo project, Secret Dakota Ring, which released albums in 2004 and 2008. Ross is also co-founder of Serious Business Records, a label under which Secret Dakota Ring publish their records.

Biography Ross attended Mass Academy, then Columbia University, where he studied computer science in the engineering school, and became the bassist for the band Unsacred Hearts and guitarist for DraculaZombieUSA. Ross was also the bassist for a brief stint in early 2000s indie band Cold Memory, and was also the headliner for The A-Ross Experience. Other early bands include Phter and Conjugal Visit.

In 2004, he released an album, Do Not Leave The Baggage All the Way, under his solo project Secret Dakota Ring. Ross described his freshman album as a "breakup album" at a Google artists performance.

In early 2005, he became a member of OK Go after auditioning to replace the band's former guitarist and keyboardist Andy Duncan, who left after production on their second album, Oh No, was finished.

A second Secret Dakota Ring album, entitled Cantarell, was released on November 11, 2008.

Discography

Studio albums with Secret Dakota Ring Do Not Leave Baggage All the Way (2004) Cantarell (2008)

with OK Go Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (2010) Hungry Ghosts (2014) And the Adjacent Possible (2025)