Chris Kelly (born November 29, 1982) is a Canadian podcast producer and film composer/musician based in

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. He is also co-founder of the production company Kelly&Kelly.

Career

Kelly started his podcasting career at CBC, where he produced the corporation's first podcast, the CBC Radio 3 Podcast with

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. He then went on to co-create, with Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring,

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, a satirical current affairs show that has won multiple

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s. Also while at the CBC he worked for Spark, As It Happens, and DNTO. After CBC, he co-founded branded podcast company Pacific Content. In 2016, he left Pacific Content to start Kelly&Kelly with Pat Kelly. With that company they have created such podcasts as This Sounds Serious, Dexter Guff Is Smarter Than You, Celeste & Her Best, and created a number of viral videos. Kelly's musician career includes being a member of the bands Analog Bell Service,

The Choir Practice The Choir Practice is a Canadian indie pop band from Vancouver formed in 2005. History The Choir Practice formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the spring of 2005. A musical collective consisting of a rotating cast of "indie rock roya ...

, Colin Cowan & the Elastic Stars and Rob Butterfield, as well as playing at major music festivals, such as

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in Texas. Kelly's film composition debut was the

Brent Hodge Brent Hodge (born July 9, 1985) is a Canadian-New Zealander documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known for his documentaries '' I Am Chris Farley'', '' A Brony Tale'', '' The Pistol Shrimps'', ''Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary'', ...

directed documentary '' A Brony Tale'', a film about the

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, teenage and adult fans of the television show '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''.

Personal life

Kelly is married to

Lauren Bercovitch Lauren Bercovitch (born September 29, 1984) is a Vancouver-based Canadian producer, whose film '' A Brony Tale'' was released in North American theaters July 2014. Career After production managing at Adbusters Media Foundation for five years, Be ...

Discography

* ''Chris Kelly - Company Man'' *The Comet - The Comet is Coming *''Colin Cowan & the Elastic Stars - Fall Paths'' * ''A Brony Tale: Music from the Motion Picture''

Podcast credits

Film and video

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Chris 1982 births Canadian indie rock musicians Canadian radio producers Canadian film score composers Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Vancouver Living people Canadian male film score composers