Chris

Chris Gantry (Christopher Cedzich) was born December 29th, 1942 in Queens, New York. He began his career as a singer/songwriter at age fourteen with a recording contract for Paramount Records. He moved to Nashville in 1963. Chris has written more than 1,000 songs some of them as collaborations with Nashville’s best Kris Kristofferson, Mel Tillis, Shel Silverstein, and Eddie Rabbit. Over 100 of his songs were recorded by various artist; Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Sonny Curtis, Robert Goulet, Wayne Newton, Johnny Lee, Reba McEntire, Billy Walker, Garry Pucket, KD Lang, Yankee Grey, and Rhett Akins, including Dreams of the Everyday Housewife, by Glen Campbell. Dreams of the Everyday Housewife won three M.M.I. awards plus the Millionaires Award for over two million performances. It also won the Nashvilles Songwriter Award in 1968. Chris recorded five albums for Monument and ABC Dot Records. 1983-1986; Chris lived in Key West, Florida and won the Tennessee Williams Playwriting Contest with a collection of one act plays titled Teeth and Nails. He wrote a collection of published short stories entitled Father Duck Tales. He appeared locally in the Rebel, an evening with James Dean in 1997.1995-2000; Chris wrote for Sony Music and Warner Chapel Music. He penned songs for Rhett Akins and the band Yankee Grey. Chris wrote the title cut on their first album entitled Untamed.In 2001 Chris went to work for Faverett Music Group and continues writing music with some of todays brightest up and coming stars including Nashvilles own Davey T Hamilton. He also is writing a childrens book for a collection of gospel songs called The Adventures of Captain Jonah. Chris is completing a new childrens book entitled, Up Down the Front Back Door, a collection of abstract poems put to music. Chris has recently made his home in Mulberry, Tennessee where he and his wife own and operate DreamFields Bed & Breakfast. Chris is available for performances and motivational engagements for youth organizations and churches.