John Swihart is a Sound American born on 1964
John Swihart
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Nationality USABirth 1964 (61 years)
John Swihart is an American musical composer for Film, and Television. He is perhaps best known for his score to "Napoleon Dynamite", "Youth in Revolt", "Employee Of The Month", and his music for the TV shows "How I Met Your Mother", and "Go On".
John Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He spent a portion of his formative years in Europe and Asia, where his father would sabbatical.
John had some musical training at a very young age but was not deeply absorbed by music until he was about eight. Swihart would leave Indiana to attend Berklee College of Music, in Boston.
Swihart played Chapman Stick, Bass, Guitar and Zither in the Boston, New York and Las Vegas Blue Man Group shows, on his way to Los Angeles.
His breakout film project Napoleon Dynamite premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.
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