Biography
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Born
28 September 1972 (age 51)
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Born In
Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States
1. Kevin MacLeod is an American composer and music producer who is best known for his distribution of royalty-free library music through his website, Incompetech.com. MacLeod has made over 2,000 self-composed pieces of music available for download under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 license, which allows anyone to use his music for free as long as he receives attribution, leading to his music being used in millions of YouTube videos and thousands of films. As of 26 March 2015, MacLeod has over 1,800 composer credits listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb. His music has been used in Hugo, several commercial video games (including The Stanley Parable, Kerbal Space Program, and Hatoful Boyfriend), and videos by online content creators such as the Fine Brothers, CollegeHumor, and many other popular YouTube channels.
2. There is also a Scottish traditional musician by the name of Kevin Macleod. He plays the Scottish mandolin, resonator tenor guitar, bouzouki & tenor banjo. Macleod acted as road manager for the Irish band De Danann for 5 years. In 1986, he and Freeland Barbour formed a ceilidh band known as "The Occasionals" that is still active today.
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