Chris Marchant

Christopher Marchant is the co-creator and founding member of the all-male singing string quartet Well-Strung.^[1] He was also a contestant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race along with his Well-Strung bandmate Trevor Wadleigh.^[2]

Chris Marchant
Born	(1983-12-23) December 23, 1983 (age 41) Canton, Ohio
Occupation(s)	Violinist / Singer Co-Creator and Member of Well-Strung

Background

Marchant was born and raised in Canton, Ohio.^[3] He began singing and playing the violin at the age of nine and graduated from Malone College with a degree in music ministry.^[4][3]

He moved to New York City in 2010 to pursue a career in musical theater.^[4] He has performed in national touring musicals including "Sweeney Todd" and "Spring Awakening" and was a performer in the long-running off-Broadway musical production Naked Boys Singing! during the revue's 2010 summer residence in Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[3]

Well-Strung

Main article: Well-Strung

Marchant is the co-creator and founding member of Well-Strung, an all-male singing string quartet.^[1] All four members are openly gay.^[5] They include Marchant (second violin), Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Trevor Wadleigh (viola), and Daniel Shevlin (cello).^[6]

The Amazing Race

Marchant was a participant on the 30th Season of The Amazing Race, which premiered on January 3, 2018, on CBS.^[2]

Marchant’s partner was fellow Well-Strung bandmate Trevor Wadleigh.^[2][7] Together, they formed “#TeamWellStrung” on the show.^[2][7]

The pair was eliminated on the sixth leg of the race.^[8] 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.^[8]

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