Christopher Young

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Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. Many of his works were for horror movies, including Hellraiser.

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Christopher Young was born in Redbank, New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then did post-graduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under the famous David Raksin.

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