Biography
Stewart Copeland is an American musician and composer. He is best known as the drummer for the rock band The Police, which he co-founded in 1977. After the band's initial split in the mid-1980s, he composed numerous film and television scores.
His film work includes the original music for Rumble Fish (1983), Wall Street (1987), Riff-Raff (1991), She's All That (1999) and Dead Like Me (2003). He has also composed for opera and ballet, and released solo albums under his own name and the pseudonym Klark Kent.
Copeland was born on 16 July 1952 in Alexandria, Virginia. He received a Golden Globe nomination for his score to Rumble Fish and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Police.
