Chanda Dancy

African-American musician and composer

Chanda Yvette Dancy (born November 14, 1978) is an American film and television composer, and classical concert composer.

In 2022, Dancy's score for the 2022 film Devotion was shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Original Score for the 95th Academy Awards.

In 2024, Dancy's score for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves was nominated for Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production for the 2024 Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.

Arts Boston named Dancy one of "10 Contemporary Black Composers You Should Know" in 2018, and Dancy has "quickly [been] gaining recognition as a foremost black American contemporary composer" (Anthony Parnther, Conductor, San Bernardino Symphony).

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