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Chris Letcher

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Origin
  
Durban, South Africa

Years active
  
1998–present


Name
  
Chris Letcher

Education
  
Royal College of Music


Genres
  
Indie folk, baroque pop, Experimental, Film Score Composer

Members
  
Chris Letcher Victoria Hume Andrew Joseph Philip Wakeman David Eugene Webb Quinta

Role
  
Singer-songwriter · letchermusic.com

Albums
  
Spectroscope, Tightroper, Frieze, Hyperbalist

Record labels
  
Warner/Chappell Music, Sheer Music

Nominations
  
South African Music Award for Best Alternative Album

Similar People
  
Aryan Kaganof, Zee Ntuli, Ntshavheni wa Luruli, Spoek Mathambo, Tony Kgoroge

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Chris Letcher is a South African singer-songwriter and film composer based in London and Johannesburg.

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He has played with Urban Creep. Two of his albums made South Africa's Mail & Guardian "20 Best CDs of the Decade by South African Artists" list. Frieze, his 2007 album, is listed for that year in the Sunday Times Albums of the Decade. His second solo album, Spectroscope, was named 2011 album of the year.

He wrote the scores for Claire Angelique's debut feature film, My Black Little Heart, the BBC production of Women in Love, and director Ntshavheni Wa Luruli's film, Elelwani. which was shown at the Berlinale Film Festival 2013. He also composed the score for the BBC film, Challenger, which stars William Hurt. Letcher co-scored the film Black South-Easter in 2013 with Sub Pop's Spoek Mathambo.

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References

Chris Letcher Wikipedia