Tor Hyams

Tor Hyams has over 15 years of experience in the music and film industries, from writing and performing his own material to producing world-class recording artists, live music festivals for children, short films and digital programming, and composing dozens of scores for both film and television.

Hyams founded HyLo Entertainment in 2002 as an umbrella company for his broadening activities. He wrote and produced the award-winning, star-studded children's CD called "A World of Happiness," which is soon to be released through Paul Frank Industries, featuring performances from Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson, Lou Rawls, Isaac Hayes, Debbie Harry, Gary Oldman, Perry Farrell, and many others. He has also produced a music video for that release, The Patience Bossa, directed by Gary Oldman, featuring an unprecedented duet by Rock icons Perry Farrell and Deborah Harry.

With Farrell, Hyams then conceived and developed Kidzapalooza as a family festival nested within the reformed Lollapalooza Festival, produced by C3 Presents. Kidzapalooza, now in its fourth successful year with Hyams as Producer and Emcee, has been contracted through 2011. Continuing his live music work with C3, Hyams now produces The Kiddie Limits stage for Austin City Limits and Little State for the Big State Country Music Festival as well.

As a music producer, Hyams star has been rising, with albums for Joan Osborne, Vivian Campbell, Broadway Star Rachel York, Jewish rappers Chutzpah, and the late Lou Rawls already under his belt. He has continued to work with Lisa Loeb, Perry Farrell, Deborah Harry and more. Hyams produced a Diane Warren composition for MTV, which featured Michelle Branch, Bubba Sparxx & Sleepy Brown, Monica and J.C. Chasez.

Hyams has composed the score for several feature films for companies such as Miramax, Artisan Entertainment, Focus Features and Fox Searchlight. In television he has composed themes and music packages for NBC, ABC, CBS, TBS, Showtime, THC, USA, FX, Bravo, MTV, Sony and Paramount Television.

As a producer of visual and interactive media, Hyams created, sold and executed a pilot for Fox Television Studios, wrote, produced and starred in several national ad campaigns, including Ask.coms Go Smiley and Get Zwinky campaigns and the Peeve Report for Mypetpeeves.com. He produced and starred in the award-winning short musical comedy film Chutzpah, This Is?, co-starring George Segal, Debi Mazar and Gary Oldman, which premiered at the HBO Comedy Festival. He also produced another Gary Oldman directed music video for Chutzpahs upcoming 2^nd CD release.

Most recently, Hyams and his HyLo partner David Scharff founded Overwhelming Entertainment to act as a conduit for their multimedia productions, and have already optioned original, scripted programs to Endemol USA and other production companies.

To find out more about Tor, visit his official site here: www.tor.net

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