Chris Barz, Date of Birth

    

Chris Barz

American musician

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1991

Profession: composer, record producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United States

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Chris Barz

  • Chris Barz (stylized as "x||z", pronounced X Z ) is an American musician. Chris began his love for music on a piano at the age of 3.
  • At the age of 11 he developed a passion for rapping, and freestyle cyphers which created a love for bars, rhyming and clever wordplay.
  • Chris started recording songs on a boombox tape recorder.
  • At the age of 12 he was introduced to an MPC2000 XL and started producing beats and writing songs in middle school.
  • Chris played in many popular young go-go bands growing up in Prince George's County, Maryland and the District of Columbia, including his own Go-Go band called "Total Assault".
  • One day, while headed to shoot a video, Chris was riding passenger of a vehicle that was struck by a truck and totaled.
  • Surviving with minor injuries, only to be involved in a similar accident with a truck totaling the vehicle while riding to band practice in Washington D.C.
  • a second time.
  • Feeling like he had a third shot at life, Chris began to live a life dedicated to leaving a legacy through music.
  • His first hip-hop/rap mixtape landed him as Complex magazine's 10 New DMV Rappers to Watch Out For, XXL Magazine's 15 DMV Artists You Need To Know, and The Washington Post.
  • .
  • His love for piano and composition has led him to score songs for movies and stage plays.
  • The stage play "7 Layers Captive" by Stacy Jewell Lewis won Best Play & Performance in Professional Theater and premiered at the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
  • On Friday, November 27, his collaboration with Chris Brown, the airy and sensual "Just So You Know" was released which was produced and written by the young virtuoso.
  • Chris is planning to release his self-produced debut project "Angels & Jets" in 2016.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also