Patrick
Huven

Patrick was born and raised in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany where his passion for music began at the age of 3. He started teaching himself to play multiple instruments by ear. At the age of 7 he became the youngest member in a marching band in which he played the drums for various years. Influenced by bands like Nirvana, Deftones and The Cure, he started to play the guitar and sang by the age of 14. After quitting school at the age of 16 he started working full time at a local music store selling instruments and other gear. Shortly after that he quickly became an active and reinvigorating member in his hometown music scene and joined various bands as a singer, songwriter and guitar player.

Patrick Huven started his own musical project called The Boy Who Cried Wolf and toured the clubs throughout Germany or played festivals alongside Max Giesinger, Mike Singer, Betontod and various other artists.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf‘s self-titled debut album was released in 2015 under the label Quasilectric.

Patrick released various singles with his new Ghost Motel moniker and gained critical success in the underground gothic and dark wave scene with the songs Hush & The Long Night. Followed by the success of Ghost Motel, Huven collaborated with Artists like Scooter Ward from the multi-platinum band Cold, Nick Coyle from Lifer, John Otto from Limp Bizkit and the band KOJ. Known for his love for storytelling and creating his own music videos for Ghost Motel, Patrick also directed the video for Cold‘s single Quiet Now from the album The Things We Can‘t Stop which had a world wide release trough the multinational major label Napalm Records.

During the COVID-19 pandemic all of Huven’s gigs as a live musician got cancelled. He used this setback and turned it into an opportunity writing the scores for various short films from up-and-coming filmmakers from the USA, which all heard about him first through his music with Ghost Motel. Within months he made a name for himself in the New York independent film scene as a composer. He composed music for 15 short films; among others the music for the first episode of the web series Roommates, Blue Diamond, Timing, Shower Tap and The Pulse Within Us which tells the story of two dancers who meet in New York during the global Corona pandemic.

In 2023 Patrick wrote the music for the horror feature film Original Sin by director Ahmed Chae, known for Resurrections (2021), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) and The Hunger Games.