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david castle is not a newcomer to music or the record business. Growing up in the South, castle, the youngest son of a minister and a schoolteacher, was around music and began playing the piano at the age of three. His professional music career began with a move to Hollywood at age 21. With experiences ranging from touring with The Monkees to conducting the London Royal Philharmonic and appearing live in the U.K. on BBC’s Top of the Pops to over 14 million viewers, castle has long been a well seasoned writer and performer.

In the 1980’s castle diversified his skills, composing and orchestrating music for commercials, television, and film, and setting up a recording studio. As a songwriter, composer and arranger, he has scored music for a variety of shows including:

• The ABC-TV Mini-Series, Rich Man, Poor Man
• Vicki! Show
• The Jenny Jones Show
• The HBO Rodney Dangerfield special, Opening Night At Rodney’s Place
• The Hallmark Hall of Fame Special, Home Fires Burning
• The Beats, a film by Chuck Workman, Calliope Films
• Star Trek video episode, The City On The Edge Of Forever
• Health Matters
• The California National Guard spots entitled, California The Beautiful, and
  It Could Happen, an LAPD drunk-driving spot starring Teri Garr.

castle’s third album, an independent project entitled "Voice In The Wind," was released in October 1994 and was picked up for national distribution by DeVorss & Company. It made its way on the New Age charts as reflected in the radio/retailer magazine, "New Age Voice" and continues to receive air play on New Age shows internationally.

His professional career in songwriting, composing and performing spans over 25 years. In addition to composing, castle served as Music Supervisor on the "Whoopi Goldberg Show," working closely with the Music Director of the show, Jerry Peters, one of the most sought-after jazz pianists/arrangers/producers today. david was also the Music Director on the rock group Kansas’ video, "Can’t Cry Anymore," arranging, scoring and performing various additional instrumentation as required by the concept of the video.

castle’s unique scores for commercials have won prestigious awards including The Lulu Award of Excellence, The Buccaneer Award, The New York International Film Festival Bronze Award and The Clio Award.

Over the past few years and right up to the present time, various david castle cues can be heard on episodes of E! Hollywood True Story (including the "Cheers" episode, Meg Ryan, Oprah Winfrey, Andy Garcia and Della Reese) and various other episodes of Celebrity Profile on E! Entertainment Channel.

Songs from david’s current cd, Music For Your Soul, are being used in new productions. "Sensitive & Gentle Fool Inside Me" is used in the web release and dvd release of Ep. 215 of Friday Night Lights and can be downloaded at Amazon.com. The Episode is entitled "May The Best Man Win" and is the last episode of Season Two.

In addition, later this year, two of castle’s songs from Music For Your Soul will be featured in the new Russell Crowe movie entitled, "Tenderness," which is to be released later in 2008. david’s songs, "Wherever You Are" & "Parachute Down" are used in this motion picture.

david continues to write, perform and record his memorable songs and composes various music cues for several music libraries based in Los Angeles. In addition, he has just finished recording and producing a new cd which was released in May of 2006...."Music For Your Soul."

visit www.musicforyoursoul.net for more previews of the record. check out the listening room and hear lots of cuts.

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