Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is an English film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits include The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Monsters at Work, Bullet Train, My Adventures with Superman, The Fall Guy, Karate Kid: Legends, Nobody 2 and How to Rob a Bank. He also served as the singing voice for Lurch in The Addams Family 2 and for Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot.
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Life and career
Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three. He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams. In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los Angeles, California to join Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. He served in the music departments of various major studio films under composers Henry Jackman, John Powell and Ramin Djawadi, usually in the capacity of providing additional music.
In 2014, Lewis was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production for his work on the 2013 film Free Birds. In 2015, he was nominated for the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year for the 2015 film Spooks: The Greater Good. In 2016, he scored Jodie Foster's film Money Monster in under three weeks.