Mission Creep Damian Lewis

• 1Down on the Bowery04:09
• 2Soho Tango04:38
• 3Hole in my Roof03:35
• 4Harvest Moon04:49
• 5My Little One03:01
• 6She Comes04:33
• 7After Midnight03:32
• 8Zaragoza03:05
• 9Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella03:30
• 10Wanna Grow Old in Paris04:53
• 11Makin' Plans03:45
• 12Why03:39
• 13Such a Night04:06
• Total Runtime51:15

Info for Mission Creep

The British actor Damian Lewis is known to numerous series fans in Germany at the latest since his charismatic and later award-winning character Nicholas Brody in the series "Homeland". Before his successful career in acting, Damian Lewis was primarily a musician, inspired by the style-defining rock bands of his youth and on the road for years as a street musician. Being a musician, as we know, has neither a beginning nor an end, but is a lifelong state that is at most temporarily eclipsed by other biographical events. At 52, Mr. Lewis returns to his origins to finally record his debut album. He wrote most of the recorded tracks himself, including this first single release, "Down On The Bowery".

This is just what the world needs," says Damian Lewis with a broad grin. "Another record from an actor." It's a very typical remark for Lewis: with a charming mixture of self-irony and self-knowledge, he takes the wind out of the sails of potential critics and notorious complainers right away. The 52-year-old Briton is only known to the public as a decorated film, television and theatre actor (CBE), especially through internationally successful series such as "Band Of Brothers", "Homeland" and "Billions". Music has always been Damian's first passion and has never let him go, despite his extremely successful acting career. His colleagues know this only too well. As a guitarist and singer, he has been part of an occasional band for many years, which entertains the entire film crew at parties after filming.

Now the mime has ventured out of his comfort zone and finally recorded his first album. And it is really more than worth listening to. On "Mission Creep", Damian Lewis offers an original collection of rootsy, rocky and - yes! - sometimes a bit jazzy songs, which testify to a deep love of music and an equal need for communication. The jazzy touch is provided by musicians from Kansas Smitty's House Band, which is led by alto saxophonist Giacomo Smith in London and has already counted Theon Cross from Sons Of Kemet among its members.

The first single "Down On The Bowery" provides a first taste of the album, which is to be released on 16 June by Decca. The catchy number sounds a bit as if Damian had borrowed it from the songbook of Bruce Springsteen or perhaps REM. But in fact, just like the rest of the songs on "Mission Creep", it came from his own pen. No question, the man has great talent not only as an actor.

Damian Lewis, vocals, guitar

Damian Lewis
Damian Watcyn Lewis, OBE is a British actor and producer. He was born on February 11, 1971 in St. John’s Wood, London, England, to Charlotte Mary (Bowater) and John Watcyn Lewis, a city insurance broker whose own parents were Welsh. Damian is a descendant of a number of prominent London citizens, including Ian Frank Bowater, his maternal grandfather, who served as Lord Mayor. He was raised on Abbey Road in London until the age of 8 with his siblings Gareth, William and Amanda. Beginning in 1979, he attended Ashdown House Boarding School in Forest Row, East Sussex and went on to Eton College where, at the age of 16, he formed his own theater company The Chameleons. After Eton, he took a year to travel in Africa and upon his return studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama between 1990 and 1993. He began his work as a stage actor at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Romeo and Juliet and Rope soon after he graduated from drama school. Damian did Moliere’s School for Wives at the Almeida, played the Dane himself in Hamlet at the Open Air Theatre and made his Broadway debut as Laertes to Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet in 1995. Damian then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company until 1999 and received the Ian Charleson Award, rewarded annually to the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors under age 30, for his portrayal of Borghejm in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf. ...

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