Ken Sutherland
| Ken Sutherland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 (age 77–78) New York City, NY, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, lyricist, playwright, artist |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Ken Sutherland (born 1939) is a composer, lyricist, playwright and artist who has written songs and scores for a number of movies, including the award-winning Savannah Smiles.
Born in New York City, N.Y., Sutherland moved with his family to Westchester County after his father returned home from World War II. Sutherland’s future career in advertising and later music was strongly influenced by his Canadian-born father, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen before enlisting in the Marine Corps. The elder Sutherland went on to become Director of National Advertising for Life magazine, then joined Compton Advertising and later became a fundraiser for his alma mater, Yale University. During his student days at Yale, Sutherland’s father sang in double quartet called ‘The Eight Sons of Eli,” and the group had a show on CBS radio. Sutherland’s father was continually ensconced in music one way or another and took his two older sons to every Broadway show, Gilbert and Sullivan concert and other musical events whenever possible.
Ken Sutherland earned a degree in Industrial Design from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and started his career at the NASA research facility in Cleveland, Ohio. From there, he moved into advertising as an account executive at Fuller, Smith and Ross before joining the Baker Division of Otis Elevator as Assistant Director of Advertising and then moved to Cleveland’s largest home-grown ad agency, Griswold-Eshleman. When the opportunity to return to New York arose, Sutherland took the leap and went to work with what he calls “the hippest agency in the business”, Ogilvy & Mather. There, he had the good fortune to work for the legendary David Ogilvy. Several years later he moved to McCann-Erickson in Houston, Texas, where he worked on the marketing challenge of changing the names of Esso and Enco to Exxon.
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