Kris Bowers
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Biography
Jazz pianist and soundtrack composer Kris Bowers was born April 5, 1989, in Los Angeles, California. Thanks in part to his parentsâ encouragement, Bowers began playing piano before the age of 5. His studies would lead to a masterâs degree from Julliard. After triumphing at the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, he played on Watch the Throne, an album by Kanye West and Jay-Z. Bowersâ 2014 debut LP, Heroes + Misfits, showcased his ability to fuse avant-garde jazz with R&B and electronic flourishes. Starting with the 2013 documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, he began a career as a film and television composer. He went on to provide music for a variety of projects including Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, the television series, Dear White People, and an adaptation of the award-winning childrenâs book The Snowy Day that won Bowers an Emmy. In addition to scoring Green Book, the Oscar winning biopic of musician Don Shirley, he has composed music for choreographers Alvin Ailey and Kyle Abraham, and he earned an Emmy nomination in 2020 for his contribution to the soundtrack of the series Mrs. America. He also helped score the 2020 series Bridgerton, which included his composition âSimon and Lady Danburyâ. His work on Bridgerton earned him a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Further soundtrack work includes Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021), Colin in Black & White (2021) Inventing Anna (2022), and Bridgerton Season Two (2022). Kris Bowers took a slight detour and composed music for the video games Madden NFL 20 (2019) and Madden NFL 21 (2020).
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- Grim Grinning Ghosts (Breakfast)
- The Ghost Realm
- The Mansion
- Awarded Chevalier featuring Kris Bowers
- Fencing Duel featuring Kris Bowers
- A Letter Came for You - Nanon featuring Kris Bowers
- First
- Drift
- Main Title - Arrival at Polytechnic featuring Kris Bowers
- Forever Wonder
- The Only Home I Knew featuring Kris Bowers
- Now I'm Only a Negro featuring Kris Bowers
- The Kiss featuring Kris Bowers
- It's Called Ernestine featuring Kris Bowers
- Composing the Finale featuring Kris Bowers
- Choices Come from Within featuring Kris Bowers
- Egalité featuring Kris Bowers
- We'll Find a Desert Island featuring Kris Bowers
- Flowers Through Church featuring Kris Bowers
- Not a Queen of France featuring Kris Bowers
- Forget-Er by Julia Easterlin
- Vices and Virtues
- The Queen Is Here â You Will Be Erased featuring Kris Bowers
- #TheProtester
