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David Das (1975-) is an American composer, songwriter, music producer, keyboardist, and multi-instrumentalist.

EARLY LIFE

Das was born in Cambridge, England, and grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He studied piano, conducting, theory, arranging, and voice privately during high school, then around the world at LaSalle: A College for the Arts (Singapore, 1992), private study (Italy, 1992-3), the University of Surrey (1993-4), and the University of North Texas (1994-9), the latter of which he graduated with a degree in piano and conducting. He was also a member of the award-winning University of North Texas Jazz Singers vocal group under Paris Rutherford. After college he moved to Nashville in 1999 to pursue music, and later to Los Angeles in 2005.

TOURING WORK

Das was a touring keyboardist and musical director for various artists from 1999 to present day, including world tours with Grammy award winner Rebecca St. James, Dove award winner Ginny Owens, as well as Katharine McPhee, Margaret Becker, Bryan Duncan, Ryan Farish, Troy MacCubbin, Amber Carrington, and others.

COMPOSING WORK

Das has composed the scores for several films including The Kirkie (2008), Crook (2009), Flint Creek (2009), Dead Cat Bounce (2010), and The Appearing (2013), as well as numerous trailers, commercials, and TV shows, including The Sing-Off, America's Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, Toddlers and Tiaras, Corazon Valiente, Millionaire Matchmaker, Poker After Dark, Say Yes To The Dress, and many others. He wrote the theme song for the CW Network's Young Icons show, the Nick Jr. talk show Parental Discretion, and Judge Karen. He has also worked on music for Dreamgirls (2006), Jesus Henry Christ (2012), and Joyful Noise (2012).

PRODUCTION AND ARRANGING WORK

In recent years, Das has constructed his own studio in Los Angeles, California, where he has produced and engineered for a variety of artists, including Ginny Owens, Troy MacCubbin, Shunna Jones, Jeff Bowders, Brandon Rogers, Aaron Lazar, John Chisum, Chuck Yamek, Amy Krebs, and Amber Carrington. Das is an accomplished orchestral, choral, and vocal arranger, and was the arranger and conductor behind BarlowGirl's Home for Christmas album (2008). He has hundreds of choral arrangements to his credit, and has been published by Hal Leonard. Other arrangements appear on various instructional DVD's as well as on the NBC show The Sing-Off.

SONGWRITING

Das is an active songwriter, and has songs recorded by Fusebox, Virtue, Ginny Owens, and others.

SOUND DESIGN

Das has produced sample libraries for Big Fish Audio and Vir2 Instruments, as well as various sound design contributions for Native Instruments and MOTU.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Official web site > daviddas.com

Official Twitter > twitter.com/daviddas

Official Facebook > facebook.com/daviddas