ArtistInfo

Craig Pruess

voc, perc, *1950 GB, White Plains, New York
Composer / Arranger / Producer of World

Craig Pruess is an American composer, musician, arranger and gold & platinum record producer who has been living in Britain since 1973. His career has covered diverse areas including: Grammy nominated record production for international stars such as Sir Cliff Richard, Anu Malik, Sarah Brightman, Sheila Walsh; musical arrangements for Massive Attack, Def Leppard, Bond; feature film soundtrack music (“Bride & Prejudice”, “Bend It Like Beckham", "The Mistress of Spices", “What’s Cooking?”, “Bhaji on the Beach”); world music producing, performing (sitar, keyboards and African percussion) and arranging for international acts such as Massive Attack, Katie Melua, Manic Street Preachers, Def Leppard and Pascal Obispo; television music (“Peak Practice”, “Sue Lawley Show”, “Rich Deceiver”, ZigZag Kenya”, “Samson Superslug”) and also arranging, sitar and sound design work (for such well known composers as Danny Elfman, Gabriel Yared, Patrick Doyle, Carl Davis, John Altman, Rachel Portman, and George Fenton); television and film advertising/corporate music (over 300 commercials to date); lecturing and teaching; concert performing (solo and with his own ensembles but also with Mike Oldfield for the world premiere of “Tubular Bells II”, Sept 92, at the Edinburgh Castle); sound engineering, synthesiser and computer music programming, sound design and music technology innovations. He performs with two groups: world fusion trio, At-Ma, and African fusion band, The Ganda Boys. He received a British Academy Award Nomination for his Best Original Music Score for the BBC-TV prime time series, "Moses Jones", which featured lived filmed scenes of the Ganda Boys band.

Instruments

• Vocals
• Percussion
• Bass
• Sitar
• Zyther

Genres

• World
• Electronic
• Folk
• Dance
• R&B/Soul

Plays With