Over his career, Chip Davis has sold nearly 30 million albums.

Of those, more than 20 million albums featured the Christmas music for which Davis’ group, Mannheim Steamroller, is most famous. In fact, Mannheim Steamroller’s 2001 album Christmas Extraordinaire was certified Double Platinum just 8 weeks after its release.

And now the back story…

Louis Davis, Jr. was born into a family of musicians in rural Ohio and began his musical training at age 4, with his grandmother as his first piano teacher. He composed his first piece, a four-part chorale about his dog, Stormy, at age 6. By the time Davis entered the University of Michigan music school, he had found his true musical loves – the bassoon and percussion. He graduated in 1969 as a classically trained bassoonist who also played percussion in the famous University of Michigan Marching Band.