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British American musician of Indian descent, songwriter and record producer

Tony Ashwin Kanal (born 27 August 1970) is a British American musician known primarily as a songwriter, record producer and for his work as bassist and co writer for the rock bands No Doubt and Dreamcar. His career outside of performing includes production and songwriting credits with artists such as Pink, Weezer, Elan Atias and No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani's solo work.

Kanal was born in Kingsbury, in northwest London, England. Kanal's father, Gulab was from Sukkur (in present day Sindh, Pakistan) and grew up in Delhi, India and his mother, Lajwanti "Lajju", was originally from Mumbai (then known as Bombay). His parents emigrated to London, where Kanal was born. While most of his early years were spent in the British capital city, Kanal and his family briefly lived in Toronto, Ontario and Munster, Indiana, before returning to London. At age 11, his family moved to the United States, settling in Anaheim, Orange County, California. Kanal joined the band as its bassist at age 16. After high school, Kanal enrolled at California State University, Fullerton to major in psychology. Their self titled debut was released in 1992; that same year, they embarked on three U. S. van tours, playing clubs and theaters. Over the next decade, No Doubt released the follow up albums Tragic Kingdom (1995), The Beacon Street Collection (1995), Return of Saturn (2000), Rock Steady (2001), as well as two compilation albums, The Singles 1992–2003 (2003) and Everything in Time: B Sides, Rarities, Remixes (2004). The band toured the world and earned several awards, including two Grammy Awards and 5 MTV Music Video Awards.

In 2014, Kanal and No Doubt bandmates Tom Dumont and Adrian Young, along with Davey Havok of AFI, formed the band Dreamcar. They released their debut self titled album through Columbia Records in 2017 and toured the U. S. to support it, including performances at the Coachella Festival. In October 2018, Kanal joined Danny Elfman during the encore of his three Nightmare Before Christmas shows at the Hollywood Bowl to play Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party". On 31 October, Kanal performed a set of eight Red Hot Chili Peppers songs with musicians Adam Levine, Chad Smith, Andrew Watt, and Darren Criss at Maroon 5's annual Halloween party in Los Angeles. In December 2018, Kanal played bass for The Offspring on their Australian festival headline tour. In January 2019, Kanal joined the band for their tour in Japan.

Kanal dated bandmate Gwen Stefani from 1987 to 1994. They continued to have a creative relationship after they broke up which led to many of No Doubt's songs, most notably "Don't Speak". Many years later, Stefani co wrote her song "Cool" about their relationship as friends for her 2004 debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Kanal is married to American home designer Erin Lokitz. On 24 January 2011, their first daughter, Coco Reese Lakshmi Kanal was born. On 22 November 2013, their second daughter, Saffron Rose Kiran Kanal was born. Kanal is a vegan and animal rights activist. In addition to promoting and speaking publicly about animal rights issues, he has supported animal rights organizations including Farm Sanctuary, LA Animal Save, and Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, Supporting The Fur Ban and has done numerous hen rescues with Animal Place.

Kanal endorses Yamaha basses which he runs through Gallien Krueger heads into Ampeg cabinets.