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Cooper Claire is the moniker and musical calling card for multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter David Cooper Claire.
Cooper Claire's home recording "Th3 W312d W3st" was his debut full-length album as a singer-songwriter, as well as the literal autobiographical timeline from 2012 to 2017 — a chronology involving: two years of initial descent into psychosis, a period of delusion and hallucinations followed by multiple psychotic breaks, several hospitalizations and a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, then extremely debilitating treatment with heavy-handed antipsychotics and a considerable loss of cognitive functioning, thereby quitting music performance altogether, before, fortunately, an eventual a return to mental health through both therapy and precisely adjusted psychotropic care.
David has worked extensively as a sideman, drummer, and musical mercenary in both Michigan and Texas, recording and performing with Edgar Struble (Music Director, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards), Jeff Jacobs (Foreigner, Billy Joel), Kerry Marx (Johnny Cash, Shania Twain), Chuck Jacobs (Kenny Rogers), Andrew Tinker (The Polyphonic Spree), Kaela Sinclair (M83), and Erskine Hawkins (Eminem).
Dave has also composed musical segments for the Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards on ABC.<br>
Cooper Claire's home recording "Th3 W312d W3st" was his debut full-length album as a singer-songwriter, as well as the literal autobiographical timeline from 2012 to 2017 — a chronology involving: two years of initial descent into psychosis, a period of delusion and hallucinations followed by multiple psychotic breaks, several hospitalizations and a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, then extremely debilitating treatment with heavy-handed antipsychotics and a considerable loss of cognitive functioning, thereby quitting music performance altogether, before, fortunately, an eventual a return to mental health through both therapy and precisely adjusted psychotropic care.
David has worked extensively as a sideman, drummer, and musical mercenary in both Michigan and Texas, recording and performing with Edgar Struble (Music Director, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards), Jeff Jacobs (Foreigner, Billy Joel), Kerry Marx (Johnny Cash, Shania Twain), Chuck Jacobs (Kenny Rogers), Andrew Tinker (The Polyphonic Spree), Kaela Sinclair (M83), and Erskine Hawkins (Eminem).
Dave has also composed musical segments for the Billboard Music Awards and American Music Awards on ABC.<br>
