Chris Lorraine is a Rock Musician from Palmer, Alaska who currently resides in West Hollywood, CA. He has been an active musician since he was 12 years old, and has been in eight rock bands since then. These include "Massacre", "Batter Down", "The Henchmen", "Free Candy", "Creampie", "Wyte Vinyl", "Speakeasy", and his solo project, "Chris Lorraine".
He has played over 75 shows in the past ten years and recorded a full length album with "The Henchmen" titled "Undercover", three singles with "Wyte Vinyl". He currently has a self titled album out called "Chris Lorraines ApocL.Aypse". A rock opera about his story as a musician in Los Angeles. He has done all the artwork surrounding his music using his own style, which includes magazine cutouts and a combination of painting, watercolor, clay sculptures, toys, and pencil sketching.
Growing up, Chris was constantly doing music or art projects, even skipping his junior and senior prom to record tracks with Henchmen Keyboardist Andrew Bryant. He left home at 17 to live with a friend, where he spent his days drawing, recording the Henhcmen's album "Undercover", working on developing his songwriting skills, and playing numerous shows in Anchorage, AK and the Matanuska Valley. The Henchmen were a "psychedelic hard rock" band that was definitely out of the ordinary for a music scene like Alaska's at the time, but nevertheless brought them many fans and followers. Their album "Undercover" was a favorite amongst many in the AK music scene. In high school, he spent every lunch period writing songs for The Henchmen and playing guitar in the band room, and when he wasn't doing that, he would often times skip class to go to the library where he read about philosophy, psychology, music, and the occult.
When he was 18, he moved across the country to Nashville Tennessee where he got a job as a stagehand setting up shows for numerous big name acts-a very inspiring time where he learned so much about the music industry and what goes on behind the scenes. No less than two months of living in Nashville, he left his living situation due to an altercation with his room mate. He spent the next two weeks at a Days Inn writing songs and busking for money to get a plane ticket back home.
When he got back to Alaska he joined the band "Wyte Vinyl" as the singer and played numerous shows with them, including the battle to warped tour contests that used to happen in Anchorage-which they won, even though it was the first show they had ever played together. They were also the first underage band to ever play at the world famous "Chilkoot Charlies" and were asked to come back to play over and over again. Before their abrupt break up, they had played numerous shows and gained quite a following, just like the Henchmen.
After the breakup of Wyte Vinyl, Chris moved to Los Angeles with a friend who ended up leaving him stranded at a motel due to the fear and anxiety of moving to a big city. Chris then took a gray hound bus to Los Angeles encountering many strange and insane events and characters along the way (full story at "Voyage L.A- Meet Chris Lorraine"). After his money ran out in LA, him and a friend, Max, (Stream "Free Max" on spotify, a song Chris wrote after Max went was arrested) who he met down there at a hostel he was living at, slept in the dirt in the Hollywood hills until they found this theatre on Sunset Blvrd. where they slept in the attic of for the next five months, partying with comedians every night, working on art, and writing songs.
It was at this time where Chris scraped up enough money panhandling to record his first two singles "Witchcraft" and "Red" at Phantom Audio in North Hollywood. A year and a half later, he pulled himself out of the grips of poverty and homelessness, got himself his own apartment in West Hollywood, and went on to record numerous more songs, release four more, and direct a music video for his single "Red".
Through all the trials and tribulation, his resilience and perseverance has proved that music truly is in his blood and theres nothing this world can throw at him that could stop him. He has a dozen new songs on the way, more of his own signature art to go along with them, and big plans for the future.
