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Christopher Tin

American composer

Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer and conductor. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner, and has won various awards for his work in video game soundtracks and studio albums.

Tin is best known for his work on title themes for the Civilization video game series, specifically the main theme "Baba Yetu" from the video game Civilization IV, which, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011, became the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award. This Grammy win has been considered a significant milestone for the critical acceptance of music from video games, and following this win the Recording Academy retitled their visual media categories to become more inclusive of video game soundtracks, before eventually creating a dedicated Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media in 2022.

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Works

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  • "For Happy Workers, Try Adrenaline Boosts!”
  • A Hundred Thousand Birds
  • A New Course (Opening Movie)
  • All That Could Never Be Said
  • Allegro for Hydroponic Systems
  • Ares Defense Industries
  • Assembly Lines
  • Astronomy
  • Baba Yetu
  • Become Death
  • Bird Raptures
  • Brave New Planet
  • Bribery
  • Caoineadh
  • Carbon Scrubbers
  • Civilization IV Medley
  • Coronation
  • Courage
  • Daedalus and Icarus
  • Daedalus and Icarus (Instrumental)
  • Dao Zai Fan Ye
  • Devipravaha - "Goddess River"
  • EMP
  • Electronics Factory
  • Fjord
  • Flocks a Mile Wide
  • Glass Furnace
  • Hacker Array
  • Haf Gengr Hriðum - "The Storm-Driven Sea"
  • Haktan Gelen Şerbati - "The Drink from God"
  • Hamsáfár
  • Hayom Kadosh
  • Homeostasis
  • Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
  • Hostile Takeover
  • Hymn do Trójcy Świętej
  • I Shall Not See the Shadows
  • In the End
  • Intermezzo
  • Iza Ngomso - "Come Tomorrow"
  • Kia Hora Te Marino
  • Look at All the Money
  • Lux Aeterna
  • MULE
  • Mado Kara Mieru
  • Magnetic Storm
  • Martian Glassworks, Inc.
  • Martian Mining and Manufacturing
  • Mystic Baltic
  • Nocturne
  • Offworld Price Index
  • Offworld Trading Company
  • Oh, the Humanity
  • Opening Movie Music
  • Passou o Verão - "Summer Has Gone"
  • Power Surge
  • Rassemblons-Nous
  • Red Planet Nocturne
  • Roboto Agitato
  • Sabotage
  • Sad Robot Lament
  • Se É Pra Vir Que Venha
  • Sea of Sirens
  • Seirenes - "Sirens"
  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV
  • Sogno di Volare ("The Dream of Flight")
  • Song Offerings
  • Song Offerings: I. Let My Country Awake
  • Song Offerings: II. This Rhythm
  • Song Offerings: III. Stream of Life
  • Song Offerings: IV. Only Thee
  • Song Offerings: V. Joy
  • Song of the Mountain
  • Stand of the 93rd
  • Sukla-Krsne
  • Sunrise on Mars
  • Temen Oblak - "Dark Clouds"
  • The Clearing
  • The Fall
  • The Heavenly Kingdom
  • The Lost Birds
  • The Power of the Spirit
  • The Saddest Noise
  • There Will Come Soft Rains
  • Thinking Machines
  • Thus in the Winter
  • To Shiver the Sky
  • To the Stars
  • To the Stars (Instrumental)
  • Trade War
  • Transfigurations
  • Transfigurations: I. Fire Prelude
  • Transfigurations: II. Photon
  • Transfigurations: III. Ozymandias
  • Transfigurations: IV. Iphis
  • Transfigurations: V. Yeshua
  • Transfigurations: VI. Tat Tvam Asi
  • Trickle-Down Economics
  • Tsas Narand Uyarna - "The Heart of Snow"
  • Waloyo Yamoni - "We Overcome the Wind"
  • Water Prelude
  • We Choose to Go to the Moon
  • We Choose to Go to the Moon (Instrumental)
  • Welcome to Mars
  • Wild Swans
  • Will o' the Wisp