Trevor Rabin

Trevor Rabin is one of those musicians who somehow managed to be iconic in two completely different careers, and I respect that enormously. As the guitarist who essentially revived Yes in the early 1980s — writing and anchoring "Owner of a Lonely Heart," the band's only number one single — he could have coasted on that legacy forever. Instead he pivoted to Hollywood and became one of the most recognizable film composers of the 1990s and 2000s, crafting the big, propulsive action sound you hear in Con Air, Armageddon, Remember the Titans, and National Treasure. That muscular, guitar-forward orchestral style is unmistakably his, and once you learn to hear it, you'll catch it everywhere. A genuinely underrated figure in rock history.

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Name (English)

Trevor Rabin

Name (Japanese)

トレヴァー・ラビン

Reading

とれゔぁー・らびん

Born

January 13, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Occupation

composer / guitarist / film score composer / DJ producer / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

High school

Parktown Boys' High School

• Official sitehttps://trevorrabin.net
• Xhttps://x.com/trevorrabin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Rabin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364881

Tags

• Gauteng
• composer
• guitarist
• film score composer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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