Chris Ballew
Alternative rock, Composer
1965 –
Who is Chris Ballew?
Christopher "Chris" Ballew is a member of the alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America and performs as a children's artist under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.
Ballew grew up in Seattle and attended middle and high school at The Bush School, where he met David Dederer, with whom he would form The Presidents of the United States of America many years later. In the late 1980s and early 90s Ballew lived in Boston, where he performed as a street musician in a duo called Egg with Phil Franklin. Many of Ballew's songs with Egg would become well-known Presidents songs, most notably Naked and Famous, which is performed by Egg as a bonus track on a 2005 reissue of the Presidents' eponymous debut album. While in Boston, Ballew played briefly with Mary Lou Lord, and also with Mark Sandman of Treat Her Right and Morphine in a duo called Supergroup, in which they developed the oddly stringed instruments that would become a staple of both the Presidents' and Morphine's sound.
Ballew is endorsed by Epiphone Guitars and Orange amplifiers, utilising an Epiphone SG-400 guitar as well as a AD200B MK 3 200-Watt Bass Head from Orange.
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- Born
- May 28, 1965
Seattle - Also known as
- Ballew, Chris
- Caspar
- Presidents of the United States
- Christopher Ballew
- Christopher "Chris" Ballew
- Chris
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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