Chris "Cecil" Campanaro is an American musician, songwriter and bassist, best known for his work with the Grammy Award-nominated record "American River" featuring Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction), and several others. He is the bassist for several acts including TAXI, Terraplane Sun, The Matt Ellis Band, SOCCERMOM, Musket and has currently been playing with LP (singer).

After leaving the east coast for California, Cecil studied under Christy Coobatis in the now rare field of analog recording. After just a short time creating new techniques, his first solo debut record, "Tonewerk…Free Audibles" instantly received acknowledgement by winning the 2001 Media Arts award. Shortly after, he was recruited to Elias Arts to began a career in composing, writing, and recording music for television and film. He has been involved in literally hundreds of commercials including such clients as Nike, Infiniti, BMW and many others -- first in his role as chief session engineer and today as a composer of all styles of genres.

He has received numerous accolades including a Grammy Award nomination. While at Elias he contributed to such albums as Robert Downey Jr.'s solo record "The Futurist", Tricky's "Vulnerable", Lou Rawls' "Christmas" and Jonathan Elias' "The Prayer Cycle", which included several artist such as Sting, Alanis Morissette, Perry Farrell, Salif Keita, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Jonathan Davis of Korn and Jon Anderson of Duran Duran. 

After departing from Elias Arts in 2008 to pursue his own avenues in the field, Cecil started GOLD HEARTED MUSIC Inc. to solidify his place in the advertising world.

He was then later recruited by Amsterdam based Music house, Massive Music, to serve as the chief composer/arranger/creative director and producer for the Los Angeles, CA division.

After a positive and rewarding 4 year experience at Massive Music, he once again went on his own to continue touring and performing for several musical acts as well as continuing to compose and arrange as an independent composer for his Gold Hearted Music Inc.

Within the last year, he has decided to stop routine touring and put his focus back on the world of composing for tv and film where he feels most inspired and creative.