Kennard Ramsey is an American composer, guitarist and recording artist. He has composed music for film and television, including Ringmaster, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby, Hair Show, Lincoln Heights and Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain. As a recording artist, he released the album Somos through Stanley Clarke's Roxboro Entertainment Group.
Career
Ramsey studied composition and arranging with composer and arranger Spud Murphy for five years.
Ramsey's work as a film composer includes Ringmaster (1998), directed by Neil Abramson. He also composed music for Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999) and Bundy (2002).
In 2004, Ramsey composed the music for Hair Show, directed by Leslie Small.
Ramsey has also worked in television. He contributed additional music to the animated series Waynehead, for which Stanley Clarke composed the theme and music. His television work also includes the drama series Lincoln Heights, on which he composed music with Clarke.
In December 2009, Kennard Ramsey was a guest instructor, teaching film music composition at the ION International Film Festival in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
In 2011, Ramsey released the jazz album Somos through Roxboro Entertainment Group, a record label founded by Clarke. Somos was one of the label's first releases. Ramsey described the album as an updated approach to the sounds associated with Verve Records and Blue Note Records.
Ramsey produced and arranged Somos and played acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards and synthesizer. He was also credited as composer, lyricist and orchestrator.
In 2013, Ramsey composed the original score for the concert film Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, starring Kevin Hart and directed by Tim Story. He also worked on The Heavenly Kid, Lincoln Heights and Knots Landing.
Theatre
Ramsey was the composer and musical director for Jambalaya, the Musical, created by Nancy Gregory. The production opened at the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans in November 2016.
Selected filmography
Film Year Title Credit 1985 The Heavenly Kid Music 1994 Fortunes of War Composer 1995 Without Air Composer 1997 B.A.P.S. Orchestra 1998 Ringmaster Composer 1999 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby Composer 1999 Double Jeopardy Additional music 2000 Romeo Must Die Additional music, orchestrator 2002 Bundy Composer 2004 Hair Show Composer 2008 First Sunday Orchestrator 2013 Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain Composer 2014 Category 5 Composer 2020 The App That Stole Christmas Composer
Television Title Credit Knots Landing Music Goof Troop Music Bonkers Music Waynehead Additional music Static Shock Music The X-Files Music Lincoln Heights Composer
Discography
Albums Somos (2011)
References
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