David Rice

David Rice

Bio September 2007

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Singer/songwriter/producer/composer David Rice has covered a lot of ground
in his fifteen year career. Just out of high school he honed his performance
chops at Houston clubs, packing houses with his acoustic-driven solo and band
shows. After releasing two albums on Justice Records he moved to Los Angeles
and signed with Columbia Records in the mid 90s. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's
Real World Studios, his self-produced 1998 release Greenelectric garnered
international praise for its adventurous musicality and lyricism. After parting with
Sony David began writing and producing for pop acts like Mandy Moore and
and developing new talent like Paige, who he produced and signed to Warner/
Word Records in 2000.

In 2001 David got his first taste of television when he wrote and performed an
original holiday song with Mandy Moore for TNT's Christmas in Washington. He
went on to co-write the main title theme to ABC's Hope and Faith and license
dozens of compositions to TV and film. The next year his haunting guitar work
became the signature of a Wachovia Bank ad campaign that ran from
2002-2006. David has since composed music for and/or performed in dozens of
national commercials, his organic instrumentation and voice appearing in spots
for AT&T, Coca-Cola, Folgers, Hyundai, and Ford.

Leaving California in 2005 and settling in Austin with his wife and son, David has
joined an exciting community of media makers with whom he is busy... making
media! He is an advisor to Students of the World, an Austin-based non-profit
working to raise public awareness of and activism on social issues affecting
international communities. With the gracious cooperation from Real World
Records, David scores the group's annual Clinton Global Initiative film series by
using a mix of original work and remixes of Real World tracks. He is associate
producer and composer for Crawford, USA, the forthcoming feature
documentary from Michener Fellow David Modigliani that explores Bush’s
impact on the small Texas town. And as executive producer with NYC-based
Face The Music he’s been producing music in GSD&M national spots for BMW
and AT&T.

Finally, he is pleased to step out from behind the scenes with the release of
Eighty Miles To Stand Up, arguably his clearest and most accessible solo album
to date. Look for David around Austin, Houston, and Dallas as he returns to the
stage in support of the new record.

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