Chris Pelcer is an Australian Musician, Songwriter, Artist, Arranger, and Producer currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up in Moruya, on the south coast of New South Wales. While in Moruya he taught himself music(read and write), took flying lessons as well as competitive soccer and swimming. After high school, Chris returned to Sydney to pursue a career in music with the encouragement of Bill Ramsey(EMI studio manager). He was soon signed to EMI/Castle Music Publishing by Gerry Sword and Frank Donlevy, and WEA Records (Warner Bros.) as a recording artist, by David Sinclair where he released his debut album "Can't Find Reverse". Chris wrote the theme song to the award-winning Australian Television Series Simon Townsend's Wonderworld, as well as songs for many International artists while based out of Producer, Spencer Lee's United Sound studios, before deciding to relocate to Los Angeles, California.
To date Chris has written songs for many artists including Peter Cetera, Van Zant,Edyta Gorniak, Yanni, Leslie Mills, House of Lords, Sandra McCracken, B.J. Thomas, Kari Kimmel, Robin Beck, Tony Vincent, Kesha, Paulini, The Drifters, Emmanuel, Chantal Kreviazuk, Ray Parker Jr, and many more. Chris now lives in Nashville, Tennessee and continues to write and produce for artists along with writing/producing songs for film and television, many with long-time collaborator Leslie Mills. His film and television credits include Coyote Ugly, What A Girl Wants, White Oleander, Shall We Dance, My Best Friend's Girl, Barbie and the Three Musketeers, Just My Luck, Las Vegas, Everything You Want, MyScene Goes Hollywood, Barbie of Swan Lake, Gray Matters and more. Chris is also known for his arrangements and musicianship as a guitar player, bass, keyboards, vocals and programming. He has arranged strings for artists such as Rod Stewart and Paul Carrack. He has programmed, engineered, and played on many artist's recordings. In 2010, Chris co-wrote the music for the iPhone and iPad application called Drums Challenge Charlie Morgan, released by Musigames.