Chris Pelcer is an Australian musician,

songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

, arranger, and

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who lives in

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. He was born in

Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...

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, and grew up in

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, on the south coast of

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. After high school, he returned to Sydney to pursue a career in music. He signed to EMI/Castle Music Publishing and

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(Warner Bros. Records) as a recording artist, and released his debut album ''Can't Find Reverse''. He wrote the theme song to the award-winning Australian television series ''

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'', which remained the theme for the duration of the series. He wrote for many international artists before deciding to relocate to

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. He has written songs for

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, Van Zant,

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, B. J. Thomas,

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, Rare Blend,

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, and

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Has also toured with country artist Eddie Arnold, and written for and recorded with producers including Peter Collins, Cowboy Jack Clements, Spencer Lee,

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, Wei Chen. Pelcer now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to write and produce for artists along with writing/producing songs for film and television, many with long-time collaborator

. His film and television credits include '' Coyote Ugly'', '' What a Girl Wants'', '' White Oleander'', ''

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'', '' My Best Friend's Girl'', ''

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'', '' Just My Luck'', ''

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'', '' Everything You Want'', MyScene Goes Hollywood,

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, Gray Matters and more. Number one records including songwriting and or recording production include "La Barajas De Ana" Emmanuel, "

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",Paulini Album", "

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, Yanni, " When You Come Back To Me" Edyta Gorniak, "Do You Really" Tony Vincent, " Boom Boom Boom", Coyote Ugly Soundtrack, "

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", "My Best Mistake", Chen Bing Pelcer is also known for his arrangements and musicianship as a guitar player, bass, keyboards, vocals and programming. He has arranged strings for artists such as

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and

Paul Carrack Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and composer who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands. The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice", while '' ...

. He has programmed, engineered, and played on many artists’ recordings. In 2010, Chris co-wrote the music for the iPhone and iPad application called Drums Challenge Charlie Morgan, released by Musigames.

References

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Audio-Music Info
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tracks 11 & 16 songwriter * Truth of Touch tracks 8 &12 songwriter *

tracks 3 & 4 songwriter * :es:Quisiera track 3 Las Barajas De Ana (Chris Pelcer/Emmanuel)

External links

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Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pelcer, Chris Living people Australian male singer-songwriters Australian singer-songwriters Musicians from Sydney People from the South Coast (New South Wales) Australian emigrants to the United States Year of birth missing (living people)