Taylor Davis (born March 20, 1987) is an American violinist, arranger, and composer. Davis is best known for her violin covers of music from video games featured on her YouTube channel "Taylor Davis", where she also features performances of her own arrangements of music from films and musicals. Since July 2013, she has begun releasing her own original compositions as well. In 2012, Davis released two albums and an assortment of singles. Her seventh album was the first one exclusively with original music; it was crowdfunded, and the album, entitled ''Taylor Davis'', was released in March 2015 and debuted at #10 on the ''Billboard'' Classical Charts.

Biography

Taylor Davis was born on March 20, 1987, in

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. Davis started playing violin at the age of 8, while in elementary school. While in high school, Davis began playing

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. Later, Davis attended

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, where she worked to introduce video game music to the college orchestra and quartet members. Davis graduated from

with a degree in Public Relations, and a minor degree in Violin Performance. After attending college, she intended to get into the profession of scoring music for games, films, or other media. It did not work out at the time, so she took a business job for a short period, while at the same time posting YouTube videos on the side (as a classically trained violinist). Davis worked as a PR person for a non-profit organization until November 2011; and then quit her job to concentrate all her efforts on developing her career through YouTube.

Career and activity on YouTube

Davis started her first

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channel under the pseudonym "ViolinTay" on April 30, 2010. In October 2013, the Critical Hit band's debut took place. This is a group led by Jason Hayes (keyboardist and composer of the ''

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'' video game's soundtrack) and Michael Gluck (under the pseudonym "Piano Squall"). Davis joined the band in the same year, and the other band members are composer

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, keyboardist David Paich ( Toto's co-founder); violinists Michelle Jade, Caroline Campbell and Molly Rogers; bassists Carlitos del Puerto and Tim MacDonald; cellists Tina Guo, Ginger Murphy and Leah Metzler; percussionists Doug Belote, Joel Taylor and Kevin Dooley; guitarists Kole Hicks, Nita Strauss, Chet Stevens and Laurence Juber; pianist Salome Scheidegger; flutists Sara Andon, Shannon Canchola, and the "

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" woodwinds- reeds-wind synthesizers specialist Pedro Eustache. The band published its first album in the same period.

Personal life

Davis married a man named Jarred in 2011. They have two sons, born in 2019 and 2021. They also have two dogs names Jax and Indy. She is a

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. She's now expecting her third child.

Discography

Albums

* Gaming Fantasy (2012) * An Enchanted Christmas (2012) * Game On: 2 Player Mode (2012) – Taylor Davis & Lara de Wit * Legendary Movie Music (2013) * Melodies of Hyrule: Songs from The Legend of Zelda (2013) * The Anime and Game Collection (2014) * Taylor Davis (2015) * Odyssey (2016) * Songs of Christmas (2017) * Melodies of a Magic Kingdom (2018) * Cover to Cover, Vol 1 (2021) * Songs of the Lost Woods (2021)

Singles

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Taylor 1987 births 21st-century American violinists Living people People from Western Springs, Illinois 21st-century American composers 21st-century American women composers YouTubers from Illinois