Ana Lenchantin

About Ana Lenchantin

Ana Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist of French ancestry, known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Train, Into the Presence, The Eels, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Glenn Hughes, Jenny Lewis, Melissa Auf der Maur, Lenka, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Brian Wilson, Billy Corgan, Billy Howerdel, Damien Rice, Kerli, and many more. She toured with Eels in their 2005 "Eels with Strings" tour and appears on Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall. She has made numerous appearances on the late night television shows such as on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Last Call with Carson Daly, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Later... with Jools Holland in England. While on tour with Gnarls Barkley in 2006, Ana Lenchantin was contacted by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails to perform and be musical director of the "unplugged" version of NIN at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit. The instrumentation consisted of a violin, two cellos, bass, and a variety of Chinese instruments.