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Alexander Burke

Alexander Burke (born April 12th 1983 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Composer, Musician and Actor.

Early Life
Alex grew up in the OC and attended Woodbridge High School. While in school he joined Drake Bell's band Drake 24/4. They preformed on Nickelodeon's "The Amanda Show" the Palladium and throughout the west coast. After leaving the band Alex moved to Chicago to attend Columbia College were he received a degree in Composing. While living in Chicago he was hired by Second City Chicago and Improv Olympic were he toured and preformed with Michael O'Brien, TJ Miller, Keegan Michael-Key and Dan Bakkedahl. He moved back to Los Angeles in 2006 to attend USC were he received a post-baccalaureate in Film Composing.

Career
Alexander formed the Los Angeles band Magnolia Memoir along with Mela Lee which has released numerous albums and composed for songs and score for films. He has also been a member of the ska band Save Ferris since 2013 and preforms regularly with Billy Ray Cyrus, besides recording with him.

As a composer we has written songs for Iron Man 3, HBO's funny or Die, Broadway Video, composed for the MTV Movie awards, Tori Spelling's Inn Love, Mortified Nation and FX's Totally Biased.