Jared Faber

Jared Faber (also known as J-Radical) is an American musician, composer, and producer who works primarily in television and film. He composed the theme songs for Oobi, As Told by Ginger, Emily's Reasons Why Not, and Suburgatory.^[1] He has won multiple Grammy Awards and been nominated for an Emmy Award.^[2][3]

Career

Faber was raised in New York City, where he attended High School of Performing Arts, and later continued his music education at Berklee College of Music, studying jazz arranging and composition. He is half of the production team Urban Legend, with partner Kool Kojak,^[4] and founded the label "Blind Lemon Music".^[5] Faber resides and is established working in Los Angeles.

Faber's first professional credits are the soundtracks for the adventure educational PC video games The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril and The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink, with lyrics by Emily Kapnek, who also wrote the scripts for both video games and would go on to frequently collaborate with him on their work in television.

Faber composed the music for the ABC series Emily's Reasons Why Not starring Heather Graham. In addition to the episodic scoring, Faber co-wrote the theme song with series creator Kapnek, which was performed by R&B singer Macy Gray. Faber and Kapnek collaborated again for Kapnek's next ABC series Suburgatory, for which they wrote the theme song "Pleasant Nightmare", performed by Alih Jey.

Faber's forays into Latin music have led to him scoring the Fox pilot “Ernesto” starring Wilmer Valderrama, which had a decidedly Mexican style as well as collaborating with Valderrama and Rosario Dawson on the viral web series, "Voto Latino".^[6]

Faber contributed music to the film The Long Shots starring Ice Cube, featuring its song Faber co-wrote and produced, performed by Chris Pierce and Sy Smith.

Credits

Television

• * 2006 Emmy nomination for excellence in music composition-direction^[2]

Film

Video games

Discography

References

1. ^ http://www.blindlemonmusic.com/press/PRESS%20-%20Not%20Just%20Kids%20Stuff%20-%20EMPIRE.pdf ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Variety.com - Emmy noms wide Eyed". www.variety.com. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
3. ^ "About". Archived January 27, 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
4. ^ "Never Sweating the Technique: J-Radical and Kool Kojak Take Urban Legend Collabo to Next Level-This Time with a Tropical Swagger". December 16, 2009.
5. ^ "Blind Lemon Music"
6. ^ "Declare Yourself Goes Old 'Skool' and Gets Out the Vote with New Animated PSAs - Declare Yourself". Archived from the original on May 27, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
7. ^ "Being Bobby Brown Television show - Being Bobby Brown TV Show - Yahoo! TV". tv.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 19 September 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
8. ^ http://web2.sundancechannel.com/festival/31-days-of-sundance/drop-back-ten ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Jared Faber at IMDb
• Jared Faber: Songwriter • Composer • Producer • Musician
• [1] Archived June 15, 2011 at the Wayback Machine