Craig Peyton has never recognized the boundaries between disciplines — and his career is the evidence. Musician, aerial photographer, instrument-rated pilot, filmmaker, record producer, author, and climate activist, Peyton has spent five decades building a body of work that refuses to stay in one place. He studied with vibraphonist Gary Burton at Berklee School of Music, emerging as a pioneer on the electric vibes. His collaboration with Dan Hartman on Re-Light My Fire reached number one across multiple markets in 1979 — a global hit that announced a restless creative intelligence equally at home in the studio and on stage. Signed to Buddah/Sutra Records, he became a sought-after producer with a string of charting singles and underscore credits that would eventually include the series Friends. His pilot's license opened another chapter entirely. 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. In 1991 he founded EarthFlight.com, a multimedia film production and music company that formalized what his practice had always been: a single continuous investigation across multiple forms. A near-death experience with stage IV cancer became the subject of Cloudman, a book that reckoned with survival, perspective, and what remains on the other side of it. The aerial photography that accompanied that work was the subject of a solo exhibition at G-Town Arts in 2017. In 2021 he directed Code Red, a short film on climate change. Peyton continues to release music on the Uyssl Label and Riding Easy Records across a catalog now spanning twelve albums. Some careers don't slow down so much as keep expanding.
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