Biography
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Born In
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chris Letcher is a singer-songwriter and film composer based in Johannesburg and East London UK. His latest album Spectroscope come out in Sept 2011. Press here: http://letchermusic.com/reviews.html
Recent work as a film composer includes a score for Ntshavheni wa Luruli’s film Elelwani (currently nominated for Best Music Score in an African Film 2013), a collaborative score with Sub Pop’s Spoek Mathambo for Black South-Easter (premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013 https://twitter.com/tendeka/status/332541638465421313/photo/1 ) and a score for the BBC feature film Challenger starring William Hurt.
https://soundcloud.com/chris-letcher
Chris is a member of Bow Arts Co-op.Letcher played with Urban Creep, one of South Africa's biggest bands during the late 90's before going solo. Frieze, his 2007 album made it into best albums of the last decade in the Sunday Times and the Mail & Guardian. The film Chris Letcher scored, My Black Little Heart, made one of the top films of 2009 the South African Sunday Independent. Letcher is currently scoring director Claire Angelique's follow up film, Place of Bone.Chris has just finished the score for an adaptation of DH Lawrence Women in Love for the BBC. Chris recently working with Dave Matthews and Xavier Rudd on a track for Vusi Mahlasela's album. He is also currently studying towards completion of his Doctorate in Music Composition at the Royal College of Music in London
Link to Chris live session on Manchester TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02YxR5xcSH8
Link to Chris live session on Balcony TV:
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