Kelman Duran is a Dominican musician and composer. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York City, Duran graduated from LaGuardia and moved to South Korea before studying at CalArts. He is now based between London and Los Angeles.
While he sees his music as a purely emotional counterpart to his visual arts and film work, his artistic and scholarly interests focus on issues of racism, police brutality, and the interplay between disenfranchised groups and civil architecture.
Alongside his solo output, Duran has produced and written for artists such as Beyoncé, and VV Pete2. He recently scored the feature film 'Rodeo', directed by Lola Quivoron, which won the Coup de Coeur award at Cannes Film Festival 2022.
