CHRIS INGHAM
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Swing, Post Bop, Hard Bop • United Kingdom

Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, Chris was supplanted to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk aged ten. He played drums in the school punk band, violin in the school orchestra and guitar in the school Dixieland band. It's been a bit like that ever since. He studied Drama, English and Education at Warwick University 1981-85, acted a bit, played R&B guitar in the Locomotives and taught himself some jazz piano. Relocating to London, the Locomotives produced two albums; From The Finest Rolling Stock (Media Burn 1986) and Bourgeois Voodoo (Big Beat 1987). Following a season at the Latchmere Theatre Battersea as a pantomime dame in 1985/6, Chris spent three years performing in rock venues, piano bars and comedy clubs (as sometime musical stooge to comedian Andrew Bailey) before returning to Suffolk in 1988 to marry Tracy and help raise Polly and Alexander. He still lives in Suffolk. A songwriting collaboration with read more...