Matthew Strachan Biography – Matthew Strachan Wiki
Matthew Strachan was an English composer and singer-songwriter. His best-known work is the music for the British television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? written with his father Keith, which would become a global franchise, and the BBC Radio 4 World War I drama series Home Front. He also wrote music to film and television productions such as Extract, The Detectives, Question Time, Winning Lines, jingles for several television commercials, and scores for stage musicals.
He started writing songs as a teenager and his first professional job was to write five songs for the BBCTV drama Boogie Outlaws.
After training at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmiths College, University of London, he worked as a soundtrack composer throughout the 1990s creating music for television, radio, and theatre productions until concentrating on songwriting in Nashville, Tennessee where he collaborated with songwriters Don Henry, Tom Kimmel, J. Fred Knobloch, and Thom Schuyler.
Following two years in America, he created score and lyrics for the stage musicals About Bill and Next Door’s Baby. In 2012 he announced the creation of a comedy oratorio based on the life of the Coronation Street character Ken Barlow for inclusion in his live shows.
He won twelve awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and in 2012 received the ASCAP Hall of Fame Award in recognition of ten consecutive wins for the soundtrack of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
As a singer-songwriter Strachan was regarded as having a bittersweet style, often employing satire and characterization to make political points about unusual subjects such as social networking and the media. As a composer of stage musicals, he was noted for writing songs with a complete narrative arc.
A new studio album by Matthew Strachan titled Serious Men was released by Lonely Goat Records in August 2016. He was also the creator of the comic fictional 1970s composer Klaus Harmony. In March 2017 Simon & Schuster announced that it would be publishing a series of crime fiction books co-written by Strachan and his wife, Bernadette Strachan.
In October 2020, he appeared at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court in London, charged with one count of arson.
On September 22, 2021, the BBC reported that Strachan had died at his home in Twickenham, London, at the age of 50.
Matthew Strachan Age
He was born on December 11, 1970, in London, United Kingdom, and died on September 8, 2021, in Twickenham, United Kingdom. He was 50 years at the time of his demise.
Matthew Strachan Wife
He was married to his wife, Bernadette Strachan who is an English author of popular women’s fiction and among the more popular writers of “chick lit”.
Matthew Strachan Children
They had a daughter named Niamh.
Matthew Strachan Parents
He was the son of Keith Strachan.
Matthew Strachan Death
He died on September 8, 2021, in Twickenham, United Kingdom. He was 50. His death was however reported on September 22, 2021. His father said, “Matthew was loved by his family and he will be sadly missed,” Keith Strachan told the BBC. “He was a warm, funny, and talented human being.”
Matthew Strachan Cause of Death
The cause of his death was not stated. He died on September 8, 2021, in Twickenham, United Kingdom.
