Craig Peyton is a musician, aerial photographer, instrument-rated pilot, and filmmaker whose career has moved between art forms with the ease of someone who never believed they were separate disciplines. In 1991, he founded EarthFlight.com, a multimedia film production and music company built at the intersection of all of them. Peyton studied with vibraphonist Gary Burton at Berklee School of Music, emerging as a pioneer on the electric vibes. While touring the East Coast with his group Band X, he collaborated with Dan Hartman on Re-Light My Fire — a global hit that reached #1 across multiple markets in 1979. He was soon signed to Buddah/Sutra Records, where he became a sought-after record producer with a string of charting singles to his name. His pilot's license opened a new chapter. Learning aerial filmmaking for music video work, Peyton built a body of footage now represented by Getty, Adobe, and Shutterstock — images that have appeared in hundreds of feature films and television productions worldwide. After a near-death experience with stage IV cancer, he wrote Cloudman, a book that reckoned with survival, perspective, and what comes after. His music — spanning 12 albums — continues to circulate globally, with underscore credits on series including Friends. In 2021, he directed Code Red, a short film on climate change. Peyton's photography has been the subject of solo gallery exhibitions, including his 2017 show Cloudman at G-Town Arts, and he continues to release music on the Uyssl Label and Riding Easy Records — proof that some careers don't slow down so much as keep expanding.
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