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I Live in Austin, NYC and wherever the hat's hangin'...
I have put up a whole lotta CHANSONGS (many new ones and a few from the archives!) for you to check out here on MySpace. Thanks for listening...lemme know what you think!
www.chanchandler.comhas more about me, my music, videos and that kinda stuff.
Now...The Official word on CC Writer:
Chan Chandler
Chan Chandler has spent over 25 years in the entertainment business working as writer, producer, stage manager, and filmmaker.Recent projects include the rock musical SLAMMER! (FringeNYC 2007). A longtime member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop, Chan’s musicals have been produced in New York City, including AN UPPER WEST SIDE STORY and STARS IN MY EYES. With Steve Adams he wrote BRANSON OR BUST, which premiered at the University of Texas at Austin. While at the Yale School Drama Chan wrote and presented the musicals OH, CLORIS, A PART OF ME, and SIMPLY WEILL, which he also directed at the Yale Cabaret.As a staff songwriter, Chan wrote songs and jingles in NYC for years and worked with a range of artists including Duran Duran, Michael Bolton, Brave Combo and Yes. He co-wrote the story and contributed lyrics to the ballet REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAS with Jonathan Elias, which was recorded as an all star benefit album for Save the Children on Capitol Records. Chan has written, produced and/or directed short films and music videos for artists as diverse as Prince, Grace Jones & KISS.Chan was a member of the New Haven based new wave band Notes From Underground and NYC's The Poppies. He's currently doing album projects with Smoke and Mirrors in Brooklyn and Murray Music in Austin.Chan co-founded and is a partner with Austin artist and renowned cartoonist Sam Hurt in Studio Eyebeam -- an award-winning animation studio in Austin, Texas. Austin is also home base for Chan’s Renaissance Bubba Productions.He has stage managed on Broadway, spent 5 years as Production Stage Manager of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Chicago, and this past fall began his 17th season as Stage Manager of the NY Pops both at Carnegie Hall, and on the road, including 3 tours of Japan. Chan has produced, tour managed, designed lighting and/or stage managed corporate industrials, concerts and “extreme events†around the world including New York, London, Rome, Paris, Singapore, and Hawaii, Thailand and South Africa.A graduate of the University of Texas and the Yale School of Drama, Chan has taught at Yale, SUNY Purchase, The University of Texas and currently teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a longtime member of Actors Equity, and The Writers Guild of America.David Knott took these snaps at Studio Eyebeam. Music is a Chansong!
"Songwritin' Fool" © Chansongs/BMI
Thanks to David Murray and Murray Music in Austin for guitars and production & Carrie Rodriguez, Joel Guzman, Brad Fordham, & Lis Pankratz!!!! Oh & a grande woohoo,yeah, yeah, yeah shout out to Albert & Gage for the wall of pipes behind me!!!!
"Songwriting Fool" (Chan Chandler w/ Albert & Gage)
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