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Happy New Year!!!!!

January 2 2012

The holidays are always crazy around our house and this year was no exception!   Here’s a quick update.

Holland America Line

Currently, I’m working on three shows for them (15 songs each – wow!).  The people I collaborate with are great and a lot of fun.  It’s looking like this could be a relationship that continues for a quite a while and will require quite a lot of my time and attention.  I’m really looking forward to this new adventure!

Warner Mexico

I did a beautiful version of Ave Maria for Marconi.  I believe it was used over the holidays.  As soon as possible, I will post it.

Disneyland Paris

I wrote a song with Valerie Vigoda that will be used in a character parade several times each day around the park.  I’m always excited to get to work with my good friend, the music director at the park, Vasile Sirli!

Tokyo Disney

I wrote a song for their summer water show show at TDL and will be arraigning some of the music as well.  They are using a few different arrangers and song writers for this show.  It’s shaping up to be a blast (of water, that is – haha).

Puss In Boots DVD Bonus Material

I was asked to do some arrangements of children’s nursery rhymes for bonus material on the upcoming DVD release of Puss In Boots for Creative Pulse Media.  Lots of fun.  More as the release gets closer.

There are a few other things in the works.  More as they happen.

Happy New Year to all!

 

Alexander Acha – ‘Gracias’ Video

December 6 2011

Apparently, it’s new video week at Warner Mexico; Marconi last week and Alexander Acha this week.  Alexander’s new video for the song ‘Gracias’ was released today.  Following nearly 2 million YouTube views of ‘Amiga,’ hopefully, this will be as well received!   It’s a lot of fun.  Enjoy!

Marconi – Tan Enamorados Video

November 29 2011

Warner Mexico has released another single for Marconi following the success of Desesperadamente Enamorado.  The song is called Tan Enamorados.  Check out the video.

Zendaya on Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade

November 23 2011

Happy Thanksgiving! With more than 3 million views of the video on YouTube, Zendaya is doing great with Dig Down Deeper. Make sure to catch her performing the song on the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade. Im thrilled that something I produced and am so proud of will be showcased in this venue!

Zendaya – Dig Down Deeper video

November 5 2011

Tonight on the Disney Channel is the broadcast premier of the video for the production I did for Zendaya ( @Zendaya96 ) of “Dig Down Deeper” from Disney’s Pixie Hollow Games.  Zendaya is one seriously talented girl that I feel lucky have been able to work with.  Hopefully, we’ll get to do another one soon!  Look out for Pixie Hollow Games on the Disney Channel on November 19th.  A slightly different version of the song appears in the show as well – so look out for that.

AND

Zendaya will be performing the song at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on the Build A Bear Float – WOW!

Zendaya in the studio…..

October 20 2011

At our last vocal session, Tiger Beat magazine was there to interview Zendaya and shoot a little behind the scenes.  I was shocked to find out that Tiger Beat is still around.  As a kid, back in the ’70′s I used to buy Tiger Beat at the grocery store and read about Donny and Marie, Shaun Cassidy, John Travolta and the like.  Now it’s Zendaya and her generation and I’m producing.  In the video, that’s me sitting to the left of the engineer.  How fun!

Here’s the video and check out » Zendaya’s blog as well.

Alexander Acha – “Behind the scenes of La Vida Es…..” Video

October 18 2011

All through the process of recording, Alexander carried around a video camera and we recorded EVERYTHING!  Alexander edited this all together and it’s now up for you all to see what we did for all those months last year.  Enjoy!

Disney Parks – Together As One campaign

October 8 2011

Among the various Disney projects I’ve been working on for the past several weeks is another for Worldwide Marketing.  I was asked to edit a big pile of versions of the One Republic song ‘Good Life.’  While it seemed a simple enough task at the outset, we got the tracks from the band and did very custom edits for the TV spots and all of the different marketing uses that Disney will be employing over the coming months.  A lot of fun to be able to spend some time with the fantastic track!  For those of you geeky enough to care, there are combinations of instruments and vocals in these spots that never appear anywhere else on the record which is why it was so much fun for me to help create.  Here’s the first version they’ve released.

Zendaya and Tinkerbell “Pixie Hollow Games

October 6 2011

I was asked to produce a song for Zendaya from the Disney Channel’s ‘Shake It Up.’ The song will appear both in the TV special and as a single.  Zendaya was a blast to work with and her family is fantastic.  My daughter is out of her mind that I’m working with one of her favs!  (I remind her of it every time I have to get on her case to practice her piano!)  The song should debut on Radio Disney and the Disney Channel in late October or early November.  I believe the show airs on the Disney Channel on Nov 19.  The song-writers are my friends Bendan Milburn and Valerie Vagoda who have written for the other Tink films as well.  The song is called Dig Down Deeper.  Be on the lookout!

Holland America!

September 27 2011

I was asked a couple weeks ago to do a show for Holland America Line.  It’s a great opportunity and fun people to work with, who also happen to be friends which makes it even better!  You’ll have to get on a ship to see this one, though :)