Chris Burke Artist Bio

There are multiple musicians operating under the name Chris Burke.

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Composer Chris Burke has been working with electronic music and sound collage since the mid 1980s, with repertoire including the cut-up compositions of Idioglossia (Mode Avant), the dancefloor-aware culture critique of Glorified Magnified’s All Wave Super (Sire), and numerous Game Boy excursions under the chipmusic project glomag. He has also scored a number of cult / horror films, with a selection of soundtrack work collected into the album Confessions Of An 80s Low Budget Horror Film Composer.

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Christopher Joseph “Chris” Burke (born August 26, 1965, in Point Lookout, New York) who was the beloved “Corky” from the ABC TV Series, Life Goes On.

Chris Burke was born with down’s syndrome, yet managed to have a successful career as both an actor and as a singer.

Early in his career he learned music and stage by tap-dancing. Later he went on to play a down’s syndrome adolescent in a made for TV movie. Burke’s ability to take direction in spite of his handicap was impressive enough for him to get his own series, the aforementioned, Life Goes On.

Currently, Burke tours the U.S. with his 4-piece folk band. He sings with his twin friends, Joe and John DeMasi. The DeMasi brothers were music counselors at the Town of Hempstead’s ANCHOR program for children with disabilities. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.