D.L. Orris
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Hollywood, CA, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | DAVID ORRIS - BIOGRAPHY Born in Twin Peaks and raised in Chicago, David began performing at a very young age as a church vocalist and pianist, playing classical and gospel music alike at age four. Today, his works as a composer, lyricist, artist and producer are ultimately about beauty, humor and truth. As a BMG Chrysalis songwriter and indie recording artist, David’s songs have appeared in a variety of TV and film, including the hit JJ Abrams and Matt Reevevs series Felicity as well as Smallville, MTV’s Real World and numerous others. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and songs from his last two albums “The Seraphim Circus” and “Retrograde Boulevard” have both charted at #1 nationally on CMJ and are available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and all online outlets. David is a graduate of Wheaton College and Conservatory. He resides in Hollywood, CA where he is currently hard at work composing music and lyrics for several pop/rock musicals, most notably Invisible (with bookwriter David Hollingsworth) which was this year’s first-prize winner in the International Search for New Musicals. |
| Interests | Music, Movies, Musical Theatre, Spirituality, Meditation, Yoga, Weightlifting, Travel, Writing, People watching |
| Favorite Movies | Fight Club, American Beauty, Almost Famous, The Matrix, Vanilla Sky, Laurel Canyon, Milk, Bruno, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Silence of the Lambs, The Secret, What the Bleep Do We Know, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, Mamma Mia!, Edward Scissorhands, Sex and the City, The Cell |
| Favorite Music | Peter Gabriel, U2, Coldplay, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Alanis Morissette, Jeff Beck, Prince, Sam Phillips, Joni Mitchell, Bright Eyes, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Enya, Indigo Girls, PJ Harvey, Dave Matthews Band, Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush, Beatles, Erasure, Gorecki, R.E.M., Nirvana, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Ani DiFranco, George Crumb, Neil Young, Paula Cole, Mahler, Cole Porter, Jonathan Larson, Pearl Jam, The Doors, Miles Davis, Cream, Beck, Annie Lennox, Billie Holiday, Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Sinead O'Connor, Bartok, (John) Cage, Chopin, Pink Floyd, Ella Fitzgerald, Daniel Lanois, Amy Grant |
| Favorite Books | Ask and It Is Given, A Gradual Awakening, Call It Sleep, The DaVinci Code, Be Here Now, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eat Pray Love, Green For Life, Eating for Beauty, Diet For A New America |