Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak is a true, authentic talent, across music, the movies and TV. In front of the camera, his acting credits include pivotal roles in The Things That You Do and Silence of the Lambs. He even appears in an episode of Friends.

Behind the cameras he has created soundtrack music for multiple films, including Eyes Wide Shut, True Romance and Wild Heart, from which he released his signature global hit ‘Wicked Game’ in 1989. But his true love is the music of the 1950s. He has evolved a fabulous retro-Rockabilly vocal style, which he took to Memphis to record the album Beyond the Sun at the legendary Sun Studios, the home of the rock and roll music that so much inspired Buddy Holly and his buddies in the Crickets.

‘It all starts there’ said Chris ‘and those guys all went on and just kind of took off like rocket ships’. 

Bob Harris

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