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Trevor Rabin
January 13, 1954 -
born in Johannesburg, South Africa, composed during the Contemporary period
Biography
Trevor Rabin is a famous rock electric guitar player who made a transition to a career in film score composition. He is probably the only film score composer to have a handprint in the Rock and Roll Walk of Fame on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.

He began piano lessons when he was six. When he was twelve, he bought a Comet Electric Guitar, which he played by hooking it up to the input jacks of his family's old console model radio. In 1968, he formed a three-man rock group called The Conglomeration which won a national "Battle of the Bands," which did not, however, prevent The Conglomeration from dissolving. Rabin went to work playing piano in a Greek restaurant.

Three months later, Rabin was drafted into the South African Army and was posted to the entertainment unit as a guitarist and electric bass player. After his discharge, he began to get session work. Record producer Patric Van Blerk hired Rabin and some other local musicians to make a cover of Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath." This one-shot studio band was named Rabbitt for the purposes of the release. The single was an unexpected hit, staying on the charts in South Africa for fourteen weeks. Rabbitt made some appearances, but dissolved after the record went off the charts.
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