Background
Daniel Licht grew up in suburban Detroit and attended the Roeper School, as well as summer school at Berklee School of Music in Boston.
Daniel Licht grew up in suburban Detroit and attended the Roeper School, as well as summer school at Berklee School of Music in Boston.
Following high school graduation, he attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts and graduated in composition, jazz and world music
He started playing music at the age of eight with his first instrument being the clarinet. He took up the guitar four years later. He began his musical career while still in high school playing guitar with a small jazz ensemble at clubs in the area.
Licht moved to New York City and established himself as a musical artist in the Lower East Side creative music scene.
He would travel to Germany, the Netherlands and Northern Europe to perform and compose music for theatre and dance companies. He created scores for such companies as Mercedes Benz, Sony and American Telephone & Telegraph Company His first major project was the 1991 feature film Children of the Night.
His composition earned him his first soundtrack Civil Defense release. He soon became spotted by macabre director, Clive Barker and would compose for several of his films.
Licht scored all seasons of Dexter, which he considers to be one of his "more visible projects" but is reluctant to refer to it as his big break.
From 2012 to 2015 he was the main composer of the Silent Hill video game series, replacing Akira Yamaoka, until the Konami decided to pull away from home console video game industry, effectively ending Silent Hill series.