Fred Rapoport

Fred Rapoport's journey began in Chicago, where he started playing the piano at the age of 6...by the time he was 12, he studied with an inspirational piano teacher who showed him how to play the blues and how to improvise, which became his first 'a-ha' musical moment. In his freshman year of high school, Rapoport enrolled in a brand new class called, "Electronic Music," where he learned how to program the infamous Arp 2600 as well as other classic, retro synthesizers. His fascination towards electronic music grew and started collecting synthesizers. While playing in rock bands throughout High School and College, Rapoport began to develop a style that utilized emerging music technologies to create new and fuller sounds. He attended Columbia College in Chicago, with a double-focus on Music and Marketing, and began to learn about the advertising and production worlds through hands-on internships with Ketchum Public Relations, ABC Radio and The Oprah Winfrey Show (he was her very first intern).

After graduating college, Rapoport's natural curiosity about the relationships between music, advertising, production and picture became a driving force in his life and became the impetus for Rapoport to head west, to find his destiny in Los Angeles. Once arrived, he took a series of jobs in different aspects of the entertainment business: running an office for a high-powered producer on the Sony lot, temping for ICM, and ultimately, working for a top commercial director as a production assistant, where his interests in marketing, advertising and production began to converge. It was while driving a van full of Ad Agency clients that Rapoport took advantage of his proximity, and played a cassette of his original music -- non-song cues, that would take the listener to a visual place and later become his hallmark. The clients took notice, and Rapoport knew he was onto something. In 1993, he earned the opportunity to begin scoring movie trailers, which at the time was a new frontier, and Rapoport a pioneer, helping to shape the sonic landscape of motion picture advertising as we know it today. In 1995, he formed RPM, providing music to the growing film trailer market. After four successful years, Rapoport decided to spread his wings by teaming up with Rick Butler where together they formed, Static Music and they have scored the drama series, "The Oath," ABC's, "Push, Nevada," single camera comedy series, "Campus Ladies," Disney's, "Austin & Ally," several Nickelodeon specials & commercials for Lexus, Acura, Jergen's Body Shampoo, Pasta Roni, among many others.