Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" got me on the first listen, and it still does. That parched, desert loneliness paired with a shiver-inducing falsetto and lush reverb is a sound nobody else owns. A Stockton, California kid who studied at the University of the Pacific and dabbles in acting, he could have drifted into being a jack-of-all-trades, but he never did, because his devotion to a vanished, golden-age America is genuine. I respect anyone who ignores trends to protect his own aesthetic. His is the voice I reach for late at night, and that loyalty has lasted me years.

Name (English)

Chris Isaak

Name (Japanese)

クリス・アイザック

Reading

くりす・あいざっく

Born

June 26, 1956 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Stockton, California, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / singer-songwriter / film actor / guitarist

High school

Stagg High School

University

University of the Pacific

• Official sitehttps://www.chrisisaak.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chrisisaak/
• Xhttps://x.com/chrisisaak
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Isaak
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B6%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313009

Tags

• California
• singer
• actor
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.