Lewis, David Cutler

He is a multi-instrumentalist best known as a keyboard player born in Seattle, Washington.

When he was five he began taking lessons in classical piano and while he was at school he also performed French horn and the trumpet. When he was 19 he moved south to California and entered the California Institute of the Arts where he took his further studies in modern, classical and jazz piano as well as African dance, sitar and theatre and dance multimedia.

After he had graduated he performed with several Californian bands and then became a member of the successful group Ambrosia in the late ’70s/early ’80s. In 1984 he joined up with Shadowfax and in 1989 he won a Grammy Award with them for “Best New Age Performance”.

Albums he has appeared on through the course of his career include Greatest Hits, Life Beyond L.A. and One Eighty by Ambrosia, Natural Thing by Juliet Roberts, Happy To Be by Demis Roussos and Dreams Of Children, Folksongs for a Nuclear Village and Odd Get Even by Shadowfax.

He could be heard again performing with Ambrosia after rejoining them in the late 1990s.

Ambrosia Recordings
The Biggest Part of Me (David Pack)
Living On My Own (Burleigh Drummond/ Joe Puerta/ David Pack)

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Lewis, David Cutler

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