Christopher Tyng Biography

Fast Facts

• Created the Grow Music Project, which produces songs for emerging independent artists and bands and promotes them on the project's website, all for free
• Won a film music award from BMI, which allowed him to enter the mentorship of film composers Basil Poledouris and Mike Post
• Started playing drums at age 14 and learned how to play other instruments because his band mates would leave them at his house
• Best known as a composer for film and television whose music scores have appeared in "Futurama," "Rescue Me," "The OC," and numerous others
• One of his major influences is island-based music due to his numerous visits to the Caribbean in his youth, when he would ask every calypso, reggae, and soca band he came across if he could play with them
• Is a member of the band Sunshine Brothers with Jamaican singer-songwriter Owen Plant
• His first band was called Capt․ Steve and the Squids
• He has an old Wurly keyboard that used to belong to the rock-pop duo Loggins & Messina, which he says is "inspiring to write on․"
• His studio is referred to as "mission control" because of the amount of modern and vintage music equipment, LCD and touch screens, and computers in it