Background
Chastain was born in New Hampshire, and lived in France and Morocco with his Peace Corps parents before moving to Minnesota.
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Ken Chastain
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University of Minnesota.
Career
He is featured on percussion on Ziggy Marley"s Love Is My Religion album and many other well-known artists" works. Chastain also composes, produces, engineers, and mixes for television and film projects, most notably the movie Sweet Land. He played Suzuki cello and was a soloist in the Metropolitan Boys Choir in the Twin Cities.
He went on to the University of Minnesota and the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study music, audio engineering and film scoring.
He plays bass, guitar, keyboards, trumpet, harmonica, Chapman Stick, theremin, and percussion. As head of audio post-production at Minneapolis, and chief engineer and composer for Music, Ken Chastain scores music, sound designs, and mixes award-winning television commercials and films.
Recent award-winning commercials include Garmin"s Super Bowl XLII offering “Napoleon” and United Airlines" "Dragon". Commercials for: Porsche / Goodyear / Purina / Coca-Cola / Garmin / Best Buy / Target / Bayerische Motoren Werke / United Airlines
Film credits:
Older Than America (Premiered at SXSW and the Walker Art Center “Women of Vision”
Funkytown
Pathfinder
Urban Explorers
Tromeo and Juliet
Detective Fiction
Hotel Hidajet
Music credits: Ziggy Marley / Dan Wilson / Mandy Moore / Mike Doughty / Clay Aiken / Andrew West.K. / Pink / Backstreet Boys / Semisonic / Glen Phillips / Switchfoot
Appearances: The Tonight Show National Broadcasting Company / The Larry Sanders Show Home Box Office / South by Southwest / Sundance Film Festival
Miscellaneous:
National Basketball Association theme songs for the Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers
Weisman Art Museum installation “Voyager”.
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United States