David Lynch was born in Los Angeles in 1961 and his entire family was involved in music. He began playing music when in primary school, where his teacher introduced him to classical flute. When he became 15 year old, he began jazz and saxophone lessons and he got a scholarship for the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts. Following his studies, he went to Las Vegas where he continued his jazz studies with musicians such as Garvin Buschelle (fellow of John Coltrane and Ben Webster) and James Moody (one of the greatest musicians of Be Bop). At 17, he orchestrated the musical band of the department of modern music of his high school and he was voted as the Best Jazz Musician of the Year, a title that allowed him to begin his own career by playing in Las Vegas. Afterwards he returned to Los Angeles, where he took lessons on improvisation, harmony and composition in Disc Grove Music Workshops, and played in various clubs, studios and big bands.

In 1982, he decided to leave the United States for Europe and, in particular, for Greece. In Greece he met a number of remarkable artists. He was one of the founding members of the jazz band Iskra, with which he toured all over Greece and abroad. In 1986, A New Day was released, and David Lynch played a vital part in the composition of most songs of the album. His second LP was titled Parastasis, was released in 1988. Furthermore, in 1983 he took part in a festival and in a number of live shows of Greek and foreign artists such as Eleni Karaeindrou, Charis and Panos Katsimichas, Giorgos Dalaras, Ellie Paspala, Eleni Tsalingopoulou, Culture, Joe Higgs, Barry White, and others. Since then, he has been a musician for a number of famous artists and has released a two personal albums, Lit’l Song (1995) and Wandering Home (1998).

In 1998 David Lynch, Stavros Lantsias & Yiotis Kiourtsoglou formed the Human Touch trio, and released their first album (Human Touch, 1998). Their second album, Movin’, was released on January 2004, by Libra Music.

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