It would be impossible to imagine the last four decades of pop music without the melodies of Barry Mann and the lyrics of Cynthia Weil. One of the most successful pure songwriting teams in history; Mann and Weil have created a body of work so significant it has often been described as “a soundtrack to…
Read moreAs the Music Production Supervisor for 20th Century Studios’ 2017 smash hit “The Greatest Showman,” he assembled and directed the music team that brought Michael Gracey’s epic storytelling vision to the silver screen for Justin Paul & Benj Pasek’s legendary score. The film’s soundtrack broke numerous records around the world and was awarded a 2018…
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Award-winning composer and music producer Simon Franglen traverses the world of film, classical, and contemporary music and other visual mediums. He has spent a large portion of the last three years composing the three-hour score to Avatar: The Way of Water, traveling to New Zealand to collaborate with James Cameron. He also composed the score…
Read moreChad moved to Los Angeles via NYC in the early 90’s to play drums for Capitol’s School of Fish. By 1995 he started his own band, Lazlo Bane (ALMO/Geffen), best known for the NBC Scrubs theme song, Superman, while running his studio, Lookout Sound, in the heart of Laurel Canyon, producing various singer songwriters…
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Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Canadian pop singer/songwriter who has sold more then 12 million albums worldwide. In 1991, Fabian’s French-language debut, Lara Fabian, was released in Canada and sold over 1 million copies in three years. Her consistent touring helped bolster her 1994 album Carpe Diem to similar success, paving the way for 1997’s Pure,…
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Having trained as a classical and jazz pianist for most of his life, Daniel Heath expanded on his passion for music to earn two degrees in film scoring and composition. Upon completing his formal education, Dan went on to work for composer Hans Zimmer, and later composer Blake Neely. Dan is perhaps best known for…
Read moreJames Taylor’s music embodies the art of songwriting in its most personal and universal forms. He is a master at describing specific, even autobiographical situations, in a way that resonates with people everywhere. In 1971, Taylor was on the cover of Time magazine, heralded as the harbinger of the singer-songwriter era. Five decades later, his…
Read moreTexas-born American songwriter-performer-author Will Jennings is known for writing the lyrics to hits such as “My Heart Will Go On,” “Up Where We Belong,” “Higher Love,” and “Tears in Heaven.” He has written for and collaborated with many artists including Whitney Houston, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Rodney Crowell, Peter Wolf, Mariah Carey, and Joe Sample;…
Read moreEric Idle. His Life. Based on actual events. Eric Idle was born on March 29th 1943 in Harton Hospital, South Shields, County Durham, U.K. His mother was a nurse and his father was a Sergeant in the RAF who was killed hitch-hiking home on compassionate leave and died in Darlington Hospital on Christmas Eve 1945.…
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