Chris Ostler is an innovative Singer-Songwriter motivated by his observations of life, people and various emotions.

His voice is both powerful and haunting, and his ability to enthral a room is locally renowned. The way he writes is shaped by his visual imagination and particularly by a connection to colour, but reinforced by a visceral relationship with strong melody.

We believe he is set for wonderful things.

Born and raised in Devon, from a young age, Chris was interacting with the world through rhythm and melody, even before birth, Chris was responding to music in utero, as his parents reported playing music and feeling Chris kicking on the beat in response.

As a child, Chris found the world frustrating; feeling alienated from his peers, Chris found communicating in words was tricky. He felt increasingly lost. One day at school, he was tapping his pencil on the table to deliberately annoy the teacher, but realised he was tapping in time to something, something he didn't recognise, but that held his attention. His musically literate parents, identified this as a talent and got him drumming lessons. This cemented Chris' natural rhythm with a more structured understanding of the music that had always flowed through him and more importantly, it gave voice to his frustrations.

Chris soon found that communicating was, rather than something that held him back, actually his greatest strength and he began prolifically writing the music that he has come to be loved for.

Chris has had the eagerness to compose and perform in a variety of styles, as well as play covers in his own rocky manner.

Chris has had the pleasure of opening for several well known acts including Joan Armatrading, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull Guitarist), the 3 Daft Monkeys (Support act to The Levellers), Adam Isaac, Yes Sir Boss (Support act to Joss Stone) and many others. His achievements continue with plays on BBC Radio Leicester presented by John Sinclair and Jim Davis, BBC Radio Devon with John Govier and Judi Spiers, Demon FM, and other various radio stations within the midlands and southern areas. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.