Dave Derby is an American

United States

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 songwriter, producer, and composer

Composer

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 of music for film and television. He was a founding member of the Dambuilders

Dambuilders

-History:The Dambuilders was a band in the early 1990s Boston rock scene. The founding members - Dave Derby, Tryan George and Eric Masunaga - hail from Hawaii and had played in a number of bands before moving to Boston in 1990. The band began as the Dambuilders in Hawaii in a three-piece and...

, Brilliantine

Brilliantine

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, and Gramercy Arms. Derby has also released solo records and played bass in Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole

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's band The Negatives.

Derby composes and produces music for film and TV. He founded the music production company Derby and Kotch with Michael Kotch in 2000.

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