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Sandor Slomovits is one of the twin brothers who comprise Gemini, the nationally acclaimed children's music duo. Since 1974 Sandor, along with his brother Laszlo, has helped produce nine recordings and one live concert video of original songs and traditional folk music. Gemini's recordings have won several Parents' Choice Magazine Awards, an American Library Association Notable Children's Recording Award and a National Parenting Publications Honors Award. Their most recent recording, "The Best of Gemini" received a 1999 Directors' Choice Award from Early Childhood News."Fancy That!", their live concert video, has been voted one of the Top 10 children's videos in the Random House book "The American Library Association Best of the Best for Children."

Sandor has also released a solo recording of all-Jewish music entitled, "Music of My Family, Music of My People." The music on this recording includes songs Sandor learned from his father, who has been a Cantor all his life, as well as traditional Old World Yiddish and Hebrew songs, and songs in English that Sandor has written on Jewish themes.

The brothers tour all over the United States and Canada as a duo, with a small band, and with symphony orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony and the Kansas City Symphony. Their music is published by the Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest music publisher.

Sandor has received songwriting grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts, and from ASCAP, and has written music for educational TV and films. Along with his brother, he has also recorded thirteen albums of international folk dance music for the High/Scope Educational Foundation.

In 1995 Sandor began a second career as a writer. His stories of his grandparents' and parents' lives in Hungary since before WWI have been published by many Jewish newspapers around the United States. He is currently at work on a full length book of these memoirs.

Sandor was born in 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Herman, was Cantor at a number of synagogues in Budapest, including the Dohány Templom, the largest synagogue in Europe. Sandor and his family emigrated to Israel in 1957, following the Hungarian Revolution and moved to the United States in late 1959. Sandor lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and daughter.