| Chris Marchant | |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1983 |
| Birth Place: | Canton, Ohio |
| Occupation: | Violinist / Singer Co-Creator and Member of Well-Strung |
Christopher Marchant is the co-creator and founding member of the all-male singing string quartet Well-Strung.[1] He was also a contestant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race along with his Well-Strung bandmate Trevor Wadleigh.[2]
Marchant was born and raised in Canton, Ohio. He began singing and playing the violin at the age of nine and graduated from Malone College with a degree in music ministry.[3] [4]
He moved to New York City in 2010 to pursue a career in musical theater.[3] He has performed in national touring musicals including "Sweeney Todd" and "Spring Awakening" and was a performer in the long-running off-Broadway musical production Naked Boys Singing! during the revue's 2010 summer residence in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[4]
See main article: Well-Strung. Marchant is the co-creator and founding member of Well-Strung, an all-male singing string quartet.[1] All four members are openly gay.[5] They include Marchant (second violin), Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Trevor Wadleigh (viola), and Daniel Shevlin (cello).[6]
Marchant was a participant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race, which premiered on January 3, 2018, on CBS.[2]
Marchant’s partner was fellow Well-Strung bandmate Trevor Wadleigh.[2] [7] Together, they formed “#TeamWellStrung” on the show.[2] [7]
The pair was eliminated on the sixth leg of the race.[8] They placed fourth in each of the first three legs of the race, followed by fifth in Leg 4, seventh (second-to-last) in Leg 5, before being eliminated in the sixth leg. The team was eliminated as a result of a “U-Turn” obstacle imposed on them by a competing team.[8]
The pair was the fifth team to be eliminated, placing them seventh overall out of 11 teams in the competition.