Stewart Copeland

Stewart Copeland is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the band The Police. He is notable for composing the music for the original trilogy (Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, Spyro: Year of the Dragon) and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly.

To compose the soundtrack to original Spyro trilogy, Stewart Copeland used a Kurzweil K2500x keyboard (with orchestral and contemporary ROMs), and Spectrasonics CD ROMs like Distorted Reality 1 & 2, Heart of Africa, etc. Some of the original Spectrasonics samples that Copeland used can be heard in the video below.

File:Spectrasonics Distorted Reality 2 Samples, Part 1

Trivia

• Many of the music pieces from the game, Spyro the Dragon, or music motifs from them, have made their way into other Copeland Pieces, such as the theme to The Amanda Show, Look Up, and Louis Hansa.