Christopher Faulkner

Christopher Wilson Faulkner (born April 3, 1967) is a Maltese-American musician, singer-songwriter, bandleader, and record producer. After moving to in the late 1980s, he formed the ska pop group Christopher Faulkner, named after him. After Christopher Faulkner broke up in the late 1990s, he formed sister groups Christopher Faulkner's Super Band and Christopher Faulkner Chapter III, with the former playing a commercial-friendly form of pop rock inspired by 70s progressive and boogie rock and the latter being a folk rock band incorporating influence from celtic rock/folk groups such as and. The three groups released albums such as All You Couldn't Eat (1993), How Come Hair Metal is Dead, When Grunge Is Dying Too? (1996), The Incredible Silence (2001) and Real Live Soul Rebels (2003) to critical and commercial success, along with several top 10 charting singles in the United States alone.

Faulkner's groups kickstarted the careers of several musicians and singer-songwriters, including Vinny Espinola, Monkey Boy, Seth Bromfield, Jayden Crona and the duo of Busch & Cheeseburger. Faulkner's perfectionist drumming skills under Christopher Faulkner and Christopher Faulkner's Super Band has also seen praise from critics.

Early life
Christopher Wilson Faulkner was born on April 3, 1967 in, , the son of an American father, Louis Faulkner, and an Italian-Maltese mother, Lucrezia Faulkner (née Persichetti). His father, a NATO intelligence agent, met his mother at a NATO conference in.

When Faulkner was 19, his father, after retiring from NATO, moved the family to, , where he found work as a bus driver for the.