The Story So Far

Born in Queens, raised on Long Island in a working musician family, Chris has been making music literally his whole life. He spent his teen years playing in various original and cover bands on the Long Island circuit while also studying with Paul Simon bassist Bakithi Kumalo. Moving back to within city limits in his early 20s, he's spent the past 20 years building a career spanning a multitude of genres and situations. From his work with ska legends The Toasters, Beat Brigade, and Rudie Crew, to long associations in the folk/americana world with Scott Wolfson And Other Heroes, Mya Byrne, and many others, as well as working bands/musicians, playing thousands of club date and function gigs with Michael T, Jeff Tuohy, John Schmitt, Matt Simons, After The Echo, F Bomb, Bloodsugar Karaoke, and others. He has also been making a name for himself in the musical theater world, helping develop the upcoming musical Nasha America with longtime music partner Dmitry Koltunov and Broadway lyricist/book writer David Goldsmith. 

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Growing up in a recording studio, he spent his 20s putting together DIY spaces wherever he could to get the job done before opening Studio Del Diablo in Williamsburg in 2015. It has been his home base since then, a place for him to work on his own music as well as produce and engineer for others, having hosted sessions with jazz artists Molly Tigre and Greg Robinson, power pop artists Bird Streets and Paul Bertolino, experimental cellist Valerie Kuehne with progressive metal drummer Alex Cohen, GPS voice Karen Jacobsen, occasional commercial jobs, among many others.

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Chris is the longtime music director for the charity concert series Leave A Lasting Mark, which has performed regularly at The Bitter End (every month before the pandemic, a few times a year since then), and raising over $100,000 for various charities since starting in the fall of 2010. LALM has attracted a who's who of NYC performers, such as Constantine Maroulas, Rachel Platten, Tony Luca, A Great Big World, Freedom Bremner (Screaming Headless Torsos), Olamide Faison (Sesame Street), Aki Bermis (Lake Street Dive), and musicians who regularly back household names such as Sting, David Bowie, Daryl Hall, Michael Bolton, Richard Marx, Dweezil Zappa, Graham Nash, and a multitude of Broadway actors and pit musicians.

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Chris is currently working on his own music and co writes, with less gigs than previous years. When he's not making music, he is the widowed father to his 7 year old daughter, who loves singing, drawing, and skateboarding.