Complex sentence: Philip Chandler Gale (1978, Los Angeles, California--March 13,1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a pioneering internet software developer and computer prodigy, and avid musician, raised from birth as Scientologist but later rejected that upbringing.
Split into simpler sentences: Philip Chandler Gale (1978, Los Angeles, California--March 13,1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a pioneering internet software developer and computer prodigy, and avid musician. He was raised from birth as Scientologist but later rejected that upbringing.