found: IMDb, via WWW, June 21, 2012(Chance Thomas; composer; born October 7, 1961 in San Gabriel, California; he composes and produces original music for some of the most successful entertainment properties in the world, including Avatar, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Monopoly, King Kong and many more; his projects have been honored by the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, GANG Awards, Addy's, Telly's, IGN, Aurora Awards, Gamer's Choice Awards and many others; his credits include an Oscar winning film (The ChubbChubbs), an Emmy winning PSA (Rise Above the Blues) and one of the first live orchestral scores in gaming (Quest for Glory V); he has logged more than 1 million mp3 downloads of his music (Lord of the Rings) and produced one of the first commercially successful game soundtracks (50,000+ units) in America; in the late 1990's he led a successful movement which brought game music into the Grammy Awards for the first time ever; he also helped found the Game Audio Network Guild; he is widely regarded as one of the premier composers in the interactive entertainment industry; he also composes for film and television)
found: Wikipedia, via WWW, June 21, 2012(Chance Thomas; a composer and producer of original music for video games; he has worked on titles such as King Kong, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, and Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire; Thomas' projects have won major awards, including the Oscar, Emmy, IGN, and G.A.N.G.; Thomas was the first game composer to score an Oscar-winning film and register more than one million downloads of his game music; he is married to the singer Pamela Michaels; he is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; he has a business degree from Oklahoma State University)
