The Life of a Music Supervisor
Gary Calamar is a Los Angeles-based music supervisor and radio DJ. He hosted a Sunday night show on KCRW for 20 years and he’s responsible for one of the signature moments in music supervision history, the Sia song “Breathe Me” that concluded HBO’s popular series Six Feet Under.
Calamar was born on Friday the 13th in Yonkers, New York. As a boy, he slept with a transistor radio under his pillow. He fell in…