Interview with Veteran TV Composer Kurt Farquhar (“Black Lightning”)

Welcome back to More of a Comment, Really…, a weekly interview podcast hosted by Clint Worthington! Every episode will feature interviews with actors, filmmakers, producers, and more, giving you the skinny on the latest films and TV.

Throw a stone at the last thirty years of television, and chances are you’ll hit a show Kurt Farquhar has written music for. One of the most prominent (and prolific) African-American TV composers of the last three decades, Farquhar’s hand has touched everything from The King of Queens to Soul Food, Moesha to Sister, Sister, and more. The seven-time BMI winner has been dubbed “the musical voice of BET,” but he’s scored dozens of other shows for networks like NBC and CBS.

Right now, for instance, he’s pulling triple duty on three shows that couldn’t be more dissimilar – CBS’s sitcom The Neighborhood, American Soul (BET’s groovy ’70s drama about the origins of Soul Train), and CW’s street-level superhero…

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