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Carvin’s music has appeared in over 20 feature films.

None of those movies are pornos. Carvin Knowles has never composed music for pornographic films, but despite that fact, Last.fm ascribes the music of adult films made during Carvin’s childhood to him.

After his music for the infamous Pie Scene in “American Pie,” thousands of fans insisted on attributing the music for every ’70s adult film ever made to him. The unwanted publicity has all but eclipsed an artist who’s career has included a complex and diverse variety of music that spans the gamut of independent films produced in Hollywood.

Carvin Knowles was born in Long Beach, California to a mixed ethnic, multicultural family of musicians. At the age of 6, his family moved to Oklahoma, where as a teenager he became involved in the New Orleans-Tradition Marching Brass Band, “The T-Connection,” playing funk and soul in a style that would eventually be banned as “indecent” in the city of where he lived.

Carvin took his BMA in Music Composition from the University of Oklahoma in 1988, where he studied Composition under the great Michael Hennagin and Early Music under Dr. Eugene Enrico. His post-graduate studies have included classes in orchestration under Emmy® Award Winner Thom Sharp and master classes with the great opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

Inspired by the movie scores of Bernard Herrman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, Carvin flew to Hollywood the week after his graduation to compose music for film. In the years of struggle before his first break, Carvin worked on his unreleased opera “The Dream King,” producing workshop performances and recordings.

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