Career
He has had success in music in the 1990s with his band, Nomad, with the international Number.1 hit "I Wanna Give you Devotion" and others as well as writing and producing hits for Kim Wilde, Bad Boys Incorporated, Michelle Gayle and Louisiana Toya Jackson. Prior to enjoying success with Nomad, Rochefort recorded "Don"t Believe The Hype" under the name Mista East, an acid house single featuring a pre-fame Steve Coogan doing impersonations of Prince Charles and Alastair Burnet. He switched to script-writing in 1995, completing a script-writing course led by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (who created Birds of a Feather) and subsequently starting his writing career with several episodes of Birds of a Feather.
Since 2004 he has written around 200 episodes of Coronation Street, including landmark episodes such as Deirdre Barlow"s funeral and the aftermath of the 50th anniversary"s live tram crash.
He has also written several episodes of Independent Television"s Britannia High, and wrote the Coronation Street stage musical "Street of Dreams" which opened in May 2012. Rochefort is also script consultant on British Broadcasting Corporation 4"s award winning comedy "Getting On" starring Jo Brand, Vicky Pepperdine and Jo Scanlan, as well as the more recent "Puppy Love" also starring Scanlan and Pepperdine.
Rochefort also wrote and presented his own chat show for British Broadcasting Corporation Wales, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Cymru-nominated Damon Rochefort Tonight. He lives in London and Somerset.
