Chris Marchant

Christopher Marchant is the co-creator and founding member of the all-male singing string quartet Well-Strung. He was also a contestant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race along with his Well-Strung bandmate Trevor Wadleigh.

Background

Marchant was born and raised in Canton, Ohio.

He moved to New York City in 2010 to pursue a career in musical theater. They include Marchant (second violin), Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Trevor Wadleigh (viola), and Daniel Shevlin (cello).

The Amazing Race

Marchant was a participant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race, which premiered on January 3, 2018, on CBS. Together, they formed “#TeamWellStrung” on the show. 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.

The pair was the fifth team to be eliminated, placing them seventh overall out of 11 teams in the competition.