Kurt Farquhar

Kurt Farquhar is a Los Angeles–based television and film composer. Farquhar is a eleven-time BMI award winner, including four for The Neighborhood, four for The King of Queens one for The Game and two for Being Mary Jane. He is known for composing the scores for The King of Queens, Girlfriends, Sister, Sister, Moesha, Being Mary Jane, The Game, Black Lightning, The Neighborhood, and Real Husbands of Hollywood. Farquhar's career is notable for having scored more prime-time television series than any other African-American composer to date. Currently, Farquhar composes the score to the CBS soap opera Beyond the Gates. In 2026, he was nominated for a NAACP Image award for Outstanding Soundtrack for "The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder".

A native of Chicago, he is the youngest of five children. He is the younger brother of television producer and writer Ralph Farquhar, and the two have worked together on several shows.

Farquhar musical education took him from the streets of Chicago to the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, The National Conservatory of Music in Versailles, France, and Eastern Illinois University, where he studied with noted percussion teacher Johnny Lane.

In his late twenties, Farquhar was the lead singer of the band Big Slamm. They released their first single, "Livin' Large," on Modern Records. This song went on to become the end title for the pilot episode of Livin' Large, produced by Stephen J. Cannell. Farquhar went on to create theme songs and scores for a multitude of television shows and feature films.

Works Television

Film 2017 Tracy "Twinkie" Bird

Bill Duke

Bille Woodruff

Lisa Haynes

Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry

Aimee Lagos

Lexi Alexander

Rockmond Dunbar

Bill Duke

Mike Blum

Bill Duke

Ty Hodges

Henry Chan

Recordings

Real Life (composer) – The Pointer Sisters Stupid Love (arranger) – Brenda Russell Crazy For Your Love (composer) – Sam Riney Now That I'm With You (composer) – Papa John Creach Everytime We Kiss (composer) – Sam Riney