Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (* July 16, 1952 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American drummer and composer.
He has about 60 feature films and television series composed film music - generally likely to be best known as the founder and drummer Stewart Copeland of "The Police". With his musical abilities Stewart Copeland has contributed to the success of "The Police" and, reggae, world music, jazz and ska influenced their sound with influences from New Wave sustainable
Stewart Copeland is one of his virtuoso instrument control and its precise timing for the best and most creative rock music drummers: Striking for him is his energetic, but equally nuanced use especially the hi-hat and splash pool.
- 3.1 Albums with " Curved Air "
- 3.3 Albums with "The Police" 3.3.1 Studio albums
- 3.3.2 compilations
- 4.1 Film Music
- 4.2 Video Games
- 4.3 songwriter
- 4.4 musicians
- 4.5 Actor
Biography (summary)
Stewart Copeland is the son of former Glenn Miller trumpeter Miles Copeland Jr. and Scottish archaeologist Lorraine Copeland renowned.
Stewart is the second youngest of four siblings: his older brother, Miles Copeland III, is the music producer and founder of IRS Records, his older brother Ian Copeland, a music agent and pioneer of the New Wave in the United States, died 2006. Stewart's sister is the writer / film producer Lorraine ( Lennie ) Copeland.
Since his father as an "independent political consultant " ( in fact, he worked for the CIA ) worked in the Middle East, attracted the Copeland in 1948 to Damascus ( Syria) and shortly after Stewart's birth to Cairo and later in Lebanon, Beirut, where Stewart spent his youth and the Cairo American College visited.
In the late 1960s family moved back to England and Stewart Copeland attended from 1967 to 1969, the Independent School Millfield in Street, Somerset.
From 1980 to 1991 Stewart Copeland was married to singer Sonja Kristina Linwood - they have four sons. He has another son with Marina Guinness. Since 1993, Stewart Copeland is married to Fiona, the couple have three daughters and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Musical Career
At the age of thirteen years, Stewart Copeland started playing drums. His distinctive style was - due to the stay of his family in Syria - influenced and inspired by the polyrhythmic complex structures of oriental music. In the early 1970s he studied music at the Western University in San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley, before he again returned in 1975 to London, with his eldest brother Miles Copeland III - 1977 Manager of "The Police" - a member of the band " Curved Air " was their singer was Copeland's future wife, Sonja Kristina. 1978 Stewart played with Sting and Andy Summers together as a guest musician with Eberhard Schoener on the LP Flashback
"The Police"
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Two unsuccessful years later Copeland was looking for a concept for a new band began as the punk wave in the UK. He met in a jazz club in Newcastle Gordon Sumner aka Sting. In June 1977, Andy Summers joined.
In 1984, the three musicians separated provisionally to pursue their own projects. In 1986, "The Police" at three concerts of the " Amnesty International - A Conspiracy of Hope Tour". Then the musicians focused on their solo careers.
At the Grammy Awards 2007 on February 11, 2007 in Los Angeles "The Police" were reunited on stage. In May 2007, " The Police Reunion Tour" began by Canada, North America, Europe, Mexico, South America, Australia and Japan. There was also an appearance at the Live Earth concert in July 2007. Occasion of the 30 - year band anniversary there was an album release, but " with already known songs " (New York Times interview of 18 February 2007).
Work as a composer and musician
In 1982, Stewart Copeland was involved in the production of the WOMAD benefit album " Music and Rhythm." One other of Stewart's co-operation was in the fall of 1983, along with Stan Ridgway ( ex-member of Wall of Voodoo ) "Do not Box Me In" (part of the " Rumble Fish " soundtrack ), a " nervous - sounding collaboration ," the soon Ridgway's first solo album followed. 1983 Copeland composed his first film score for the Francis Ford Coppola film, Rumble Fish, which earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe.
This was followed by more than 60 other soundtracks, such as for Wall Street, Talk Radio Oliver Stone, 9 1/2 weeks, Highlander II, Kevin Costner's Rapa Nui, as some of the most famous soundtracks of Stewart Copeland, in which he also played instruments - drums, percussion, bass guitar, piano and Fairlight CMI: Stewart Copeland is one among others with Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel among the pioneers of the first digital synthesizer with sampling technology.
Published in 1985 Stewart Copeland his first official solo album "The Rhythmatist " (in collaboration with Ray Lema ) - at least under his own name - " Klark Kent " (a reference to Superman's alter ego ) already gave him 1980 opportunity, his ideas on unrealized "The - Police " songs to make known to a wider audience. For the album he produced his own recordings to a video: "The Rhythmatist " is Stewart's musical world music pilgrimage across the African continent, of high technical quality combined with his talent as a multi- instrumentalist and in particular its affinity for rhythms from his de facto four solo. albums is "The Rhythmatist " probably the most famous and reached on the Billboard 200 chart at least place 148th with the fusion bassist Stanley Clarke and jazz singer Deborah Holland Copeland founded in 1987, the trio Animal Logic, which existed until the end of 1991.
After he had already written a ballet for the " San Francisco Ballet Company," Copeland published in 1989 an opera about the Crusades, entitled "Holy Blood and Crescent Moon" ( Holy Blood and Crescent ). In the following years, Copeland has composed some 60 film scores and two more operas.
In 2000 he founded with Primus bassist Les Claypool and Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, the short-lived project, Oyster Head ( album, The Grand Pecking Order ). He was hired as a drummer for the reunion of The Doors 2002. Stewart has worked with Peter Gabriel together ( ex-member of Genesis), Roger Daltrey ( The Who ), Zucchero, Mike Rutherford, Simple Minds and Tom Waits. In addition to his ongoing work as a guest musician and highly successful composer of film soundtracks, Copeland took in 2002 on a short tour of Italy with the percussion quartet "Ensemble Bash " and a small orchestra part. The tour was published under the title " Orchestralli " from Ponderosa label in 2005 on CD / DVD. " La Notte Della Taranta " is again an unusual for a rock musician project, with (supposedly) alien rhythms. Here Copeland occurs as the musical director of a documented on CD and DVD Final Concert of 2003: The monastery of Melpignano (Italy ), the musical encounter from old school ( south ) Italian Tarantella ( a dance music " as if stung by a tarantula " ) and varied influences was from pop, jazz, world music and Italian folk dance music celebrates. In 2003 there was a brief reunion with "The Police" 25 years after the release of their first record, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and played on this occasion three live songs. The recordings for Henry Padovanis solo album and single - "Welcome Home: Featuring Stewart Copeland and Sting " - in 2004, not only by fans as a short-term informal reunion of the ' Ur - policy ' since the recording of " Fall Out / Nothing Achieving " considered. Copeland initiated in 2005 with the avant-garde guitarist David Fiuczynski the music project " Gizmo " on the " Modern Drummer Drum Festival " his U.S. debut witnessed on 16 September 2006.
In February and March 2006, Copeland was one of two judges in the BBC television show Just the Two of Us, as well as in the continued in January 2007, the second season of " Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out ." Is produced by Stewart Copeland music documentary that has been in January 2006 " Sundance film Festival " premiered at and published in September 2006 on DVD. Copeland used to parts of the recorded by him during the period from 1978 to 1983 Super - 8 film material in about 74 minutes long documentary shows the career of "The Police". Copeland also composed the music for " Ben Hur Live", which was performed in the autumn of 2009 in Europe. In this piece he also served as narrator in the English-speaking countries with the tour.
Discography (excerpt)
Albums with " Curved Air "
Albums with "The Police"
Studio albums
Compilations
Albums as a solo artist
Operas, symphonies and ballets
Albums with " Animal Logic "
Album with " Oysterhead "
- 2001 - The Grand Pecking Order ( Oysterhead, October 2, 2001)