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Raf Green

Raphael Michael “Raf” Green (born April 18, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer and television producer. Raf Green’s music is a mix of traditional country, low-fi rock and roll, and R & B. He is known for his provocative lyrics, his unusual singing voice, and his syncopated rhythms.

As a visual artist, Green is primarily known for his portrait work. Often his work portrays country musicians from the 1950s and 1960s. He works in the uncommon medium of Crayola Crayons on canvases of cardboard. His work has been shown and collected all over the world. It is in the collection of the Charlotte Zonder Museum in Munich, Germany, and has been featured on several album covers.

As a writer and producer, Green has worked on many television series, including Star Trek: Voyager, Legend of the Seeker, Perception, and Legends.

MUSIC Green began his music career in the early 1990’s. Green started his music career as a performance-poet in Chicago, particularly at the famous Green Mill Lounge. Green began to turn his poems into songs. He learned to play guitar and moved to Los Angeles where he started a band called the FURIES with C.M. Talkington. Green’s bands evolved throughout the 1990s and he performed with different musicians under different names. His band played in the music clubs around Hollywood, including The House of Blues, The Roxbury, The Troubadour, and The Central. Green’s music was featured on KCRW. His song “Hard Heart” was at the top of their charts in the mid 1990s. He wrote and recorded the theme song for KCRW DJ Liza Richardson’s weekend radio show “Rancho Loco.” Green's music was featured in several movies and TV shows, and used in a television commercial for Body Elements shampoo.

Green has released three albums and EPs. "Raf Green" his first release is a mixture of rock and roll, jazz and country songs, "Big Guy is a five song EP of traditional country songs, and "Country Funk" is a live recording of the edgy guitar, bass and drum trio that played on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood in the 1990s.

Green grew up on a farm in central Ohio. He now lives on the coast of Southern California.