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Giles Martin

Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English

England

Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, songwriter

Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, and multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different musical instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists....
. He is the son of Sir George Martin

George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom record producer, arrangement and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "the Fifth Beatle"?a title that he owes to his work as producer or co-producer of all of The Beatles' original records as well as playing piano on some of The Beatles tracks?and is considered one o...
, famed producer of almost all of The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
' records.

s Martin grew up without much awareness of The Beatles, and was discouraged by his father from pursuing a career in music lest the inevitable comparisons should be made. Giles ignored the advice, first playing in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful band Velvet Jones

Naked Records

Naked Records was a mid-1990s independent record label that was set up by former Curiosity Killed The Cat members Nick Thorp and Migi Drummond, and featured the indie rock band Velvet Jones....
, then writing jingle

Jingle

A jingle is a memorable slogan, set to an engaging melody, mainly Broadcasting on radio and sometimes on television commercials.History ...
s in college, then working in various musical capacities in the UK.

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Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English

England

Record producer

Songwriter

Multi-instrumentalist

George Martin

The Beatles

Biography

Giles Martin grew up without much awareness of The Beatles, and was discouraged by his father from pursuing a career in music lest the inevitable comparisons should be made. Giles ignored the advice, first playing in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful band Velvet Jones

Naked Records

Jingle

Music director

A music director is a profession in different fields....
for the television and radio music countdown show, The Great Music Experience. He worked on the Party at the Palace

Party at the Palace

The Party at the Palace was a pop concert held in London in 2002. The event was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II held over the Golden Jubilee Weekend 1 June-4 June 2002....
concert to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
's Golden Jubilee

Golden Jubilee

A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary....
, for which he also produced the subsequent album and DVD.

Martin's first notable producer role came with the high-selling UK band Kula Shaker

Kula Shaker

Kula Shaker are an England multi-platinum selling psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era. The band became known for their interest in Indian culture, and numerous tracks such as "Tattva " and "Govinda " were written in Sanskrit and featured traditional Indian instruments such as the sitar and the tamboura inter-fu...
. After that, his production and mixing credits came to include Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
, Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
, INXS

INXS

INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
, and Kate Bush

Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
. In 2004 Martin produced Hayley Westenra

Hayley Westenra

Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano. Her first internationally released album, Pure , reached No 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide....
's multi-platinum album Pure
Pure (Hayley Westenra album)

Pure is the first internationally published Album by Hayley Westenra. Her previous albums were released only in New Zealand and nearby Australia....
, the UK’s fastest-selling classical album of all time.

Giles Martin collaborated with his father to remix, rearrange, and recombine the music of The Beatles into a soundscape for Love
LOVE (Cirque du Soleil)

Love is a 2006 theatrical production by Cirque du Soleil which combines the re-produced and re-imagined music of The Beatles with an interpretive, circus-based artistic and athletic stage performance....
, a theatrical production of Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Qu?bec in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Lalibert? and Daniel Gauthier....
, which opened to acclaim at The Mirage

The Mirage

The Mirage is a 3,044 room hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, Nevada . The casino is owned by MGM MIRAGE....
in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
in June 2006. Giles Martin's expertise at digital music production and manipulation in particular is what allowed some of Loves wilder mash-ups

Mashup (music)

A mashup , bootleg or blend is a song or composition created by blending two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the music track of another....
to take place.

Giles has been awarded two Grammy awards in his career to date.

Albums produced

2007 Paco Peña - Requiem
2007 Kim Richey - Chinese Boxes (Vanguard)
2004/6 Love - The Beatles (Apple/Cirque du Soleil/MGM/EMI)
2004/5 Hayley Westenra – Odyssey (Universal/Decca)
2004 Willard White – My Way (Sony/BMG)
2003 Hayley Westenra – Pure (Universal/Decca)
2002 Party at the Palace – Live show, CD and DVD releases (EMI/Virgin)
2000/1 The Alice Band (Instant Karma/Sony)
1997 Monorail (Edel)
1996/7 In My Life (Echo/MCA)
1996/7/8 Velvet Jones (Naked)
1996 Paramount Television
1996 The Beatles Anthology (EMI/Apple)
1996 Monorail (Edel)
1995 The Great Music Experience
1995 The Choir (BBC)
1995 The Glory of Gershwin (Mercury)
1994 My Life Story (Unsigned)
1994 The K’s (also known as Kula Shaker
Kula Shaker

Kula Shaker are an England multi-platinum selling psychedelic rock band who came to prominence during the Britpop era. The band became known for their interest in Indian culture, and numerous tracks such as "Tattva " and "Govinda " were written in Sanskrit and featured traditional Indian instruments such as the sitar and the tamboura inter-fu...
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Giles Martin

Biography

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