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Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984
1984 in music

Events*January 21 - "Relax " by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40....
 by experimental musician Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976....
, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni
Yanni

Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
, Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her Master of Arts in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer...
, Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist....
 and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
, the record label set a cutting edge industry standard for new age music
New Age music

New Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and Reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated wit...
. Its releases were distributed by then-emerging global music giant BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
 which bought Private Music
Private Music

Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984 in music by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream...
 outright in 1996.

In 1989, Baumann hired veteran Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
' music executive Ron Goldstein, well-respected throughout the industry, and well-liked among recording artists.






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Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984
1984 in music

Events*January 21 - "Relax " by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40....
 by experimental musician Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976....
, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni
Yanni

Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
, Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her Master of Arts in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer...
, Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist....
 and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
, the record label set a cutting edge industry standard for new age music
New Age music

New Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and Reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated wit...
. Its releases were distributed by then-emerging global music giant BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
 which bought Private Music
Private Music

Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984 in music by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream...
 outright in 1996.

In 1989, Baumann hired veteran Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
' music executive Ron Goldstein, well-respected throughout the industry, and well-liked among recording artists. As Private Music's President & CEO, Goldstein moved the offices from New York City to Los Angeles, and expanded the staff to include former publicist for U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
 and Warners' "Musicians for Life," Karen Johnson
Karen Johnson

Karen Johnson is a weather presenter and local weekday morning broadcaster on The Weather Network with Tom Reynolds . She is native to Toronto and in 1990 was selected as Miss Toronto....
. Together, they propelled Private's image from that of a boutique company to a record label with the marketing muscle of a "major." Goldstein recruited mainstream A&R executive Jamie Cohen, and directed Johnson's "artist re-development" efforts, with such new, veteran-artist signings as Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Empire list of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
, Etta James
Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards....
, Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
, Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes is an United States singer and songwriter. She is best known for her rich alto voice, her interpretations of work by James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, and Buffy Sainte Marie, and for her association with the soundtracks of a number of popular films during the 1970s, '80s and '90s....
, The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band , formed in 1974 in music....
, Toots Thielemans
Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Fr?d?ric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgium jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his highly accomplished Puccalo....
, Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon was an United States blues singer.James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U....
, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, The Pahinui Brothers, while expanding the catalogs of Yanni
Yanni

Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
, Leo Kottke
Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke is an steel-string acoustic guitar. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopation, polyphony melodies....
, Andy Summers
Andy Summers

Andy Summers is an England guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police. Summers' primary guitars are the Fender Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster, and various Hamer Guitars models when playing rock; and Gibson Guitar Corporation electric guitars when playing jazz fusion and jazz....
 and Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
, with debuts from A.J. Croce, Susan Werner
Susan Werner

Susan M. Werner is an United States singer-songwriter. Much of Werner's work has been in the folk music genre....
, etc. With the addition of an international marketing department, helmed by longtime Sony Music executive JP Bommel, Private Music emerged as a global brand. Riding the wave of renewed consumer excitement for the blues, Goldstein also entered into a joint venture with House of Blues
House of Blues

House of Blues is a corporate chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd....
' record label (Cissy Houston
Cissy Houston

Emily Cissy Drinkard Houston , better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul music and gospel music singer. She led a successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist....
, John Mooney
John Mooney (musician)

John Mooney is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has developed a unique music style by combining the Mississippi Delta style blues with the funky second line beat of New Orleans....
).

Private Music's recordings earned multiple Grammy awards and nominations, and achieved high recognition on national television, with numerous artist appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show and variety show airing on NBC whose The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992....
 With Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson

John William ?Johnny? Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years....
 and Jay Leno
Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, television host and writer, who succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1992....
, Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien was an United States late night television talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009....
, The Today Show, Good Morning America
Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an Daytime Emmy Awards breakfast television talk show that is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network, debuting on November 3, 1975....
, CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
, Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is Television syndication by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world....
, etc. Private's artist-driven repertoire, with a mission of excellence, was highly praised by national music critics. The label's recordings by Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Empire list of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
, produced by John Porter
John Porter

John Porter may refer to:* John Porter , first captain of the first HMS Hercules * John Porter , Bishop of Clogher * John Porter , Pennsylvania politician, U.S....
, spawned the Phantom Blues Band which continues as a mainstay in blues recordings and concerts.

Following his Private Music tenure, Goldstein served as President & CEO of the Verve Music Group label at Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is the largest business group and family of record labels in the Record industry. With a 25.5% market share, it is one of the Music industry....
, in New York City. Johnson maintains KJPR Publicity & Artist Relations, in Los Angeles and New York City. Bommel is a Senior Vice President at MIDEM
Midem

is the world's largest music industry trade fair, which has been held annually at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, since 1967. Bringing together musicians, businesspeople, cultural policy makers, and journalists from many countries, it provides a forum for business talks, discussing political and legal issues, and showcasing new artist...
.

In 2001, Private Music became part of the short-lived Arista Associated Labels which also included Windham Hill, but by 2004, after Sony
Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
 and BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
 merged, the label's releases switched to RCA
RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA is owned by the France conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson....
 and currently, no reissues have been set.

Discography (incomplete)


  • Carlos Alomar
    Carlos Alomar

    Carlos Alomar is an American guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician....
    • Dream Generator


  • Joy Askew


  • Azuma
    Azuma

    Azuma is a name of several places and people:Locations:* Azuma, historical name for eastern Japan, now called Tohoku* Azuma, Gunma , former village in Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan...
    • Azuma
    • The Wanderer


  • Bounce The Ocean
    • Bounce The Ocean


  • Suzanne Ciani
    Suzanne Ciani

    Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her Master of Arts in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer...
    • History of My Heart
    • Hotel Luna
    • Neverland
    • Pianissimo
    • Seven Waves
    • The Velocity of Love
    • The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani


  • Michael Colina
    • Rituals
    • Shadow of Urbano


  • A.J. Croce


  • The Fabulous Thunderbirds
    The Fabulous Thunderbirds

    The Fabulous Thunderbirds are a blues-rock band , formed in 1974 in music....


  • Bill Gable
    • There Were Signs


  • Eliza Gilkyson
    Eliza Gilkyson

    Eliza Gilkyson is an Austin, Texas based folk musician. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and Jane Gilkyson. She is the sister of guitarist Tony Gilkyson, formerly of the band X ....
    • Through the Looking Glass


  • Jerry Goodman
    Jerry Goodman

    Jerry Goodman is an American violin best known for playing electrically amplified violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra....
    • Ariel
    • It's Alive
    • On The Future of Aviation


  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
    , Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar

    Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
    • Passages


  • Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon

    Mike Gordon is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion....
    , Leo Kottke
    Leo Kottke

    Leo Kottke is an steel-string acoustic guitar. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopation, polyphony melodies....
    • Clone


  • Dan Hartman
    Dan Hartman

    Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an United States singer, songwriter and record producer best known for the songs "I Can Dream About You" and "Instant Replay"....
    • New Green, Clear Blue


  • Nona Hendryx
    Nona Hendryx

    Nona Hendryx is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actor. Many articles mistakenly give her first name as Wynona, which her manager, Vicki Wickham, has verified to be incorrect....
    • Skin Diver


  • James Newton Howard
    James Newton Howard

    James Newton Howard is an eight time Academy Award-nominated American film score composer, orchestrator and music producer....
    • Promised Land (Soundtrack)


  • Lucia Hwong
    Lucia Hwong

    Lucia Hwong has earned distinguished credits as a composer and instrumentalist. She has created music for theater, film, television, dance and the concert stage....
    • House of Sleeping Beauties
    • Secret Luminescence


  • Etta James
    Etta James

    Etta James is an American blues, soul music, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, gospel and jazz singer and songwriter. James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards....
    • Mystery Lady (Songs of Billie Holiday)
    • Time After Time
      Time After Time

      Time After Time may refer to:...
    • Love's Been Rough on Me


  • Eddie Jobson
    Eddie Jobson

    Edwin Jobson is an England keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers. He has been a member of several progressive rock bands, including Curved Air, Roxy Music, 801 , UK , and Jethro Tull ....
    • Theme of Secrets


  • Leo Kottke
    Leo Kottke

    Leo Kottke is an steel-string acoustic guitar. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopation, polyphony melodies....
    • A Shout Towards Noon
    • Great Big Boy
      Great Big Boy

      Great Big Boy is a 1991 album by guitarist Leo Kottke.Kottke's fifth album on the Private Music label, Great Big Boy is unique in the later Kottke canon in that every song includes a vocal part....
    • Leo Live
    • My Father's Face
      My Father's Face

      My Father's Face is an album recorded by United States guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1989. It is his second with producer T Bone Burnett....
    • One Guitar No Vocals
      One Guitar No Vocals

      One Guitar No Vocals is an instrumental album by guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1999 ....
    • Peculiaroso
      Peculiaroso

      Peculiaroso is a 1994 album by guitarist Leo Kottke.Coming more than two years after the Great Big Boy album, where all tracks included vocal parts, Peculiaroso returned to Kottke's usual mix of vocal and instrumental selections....
    • Regards from Chuck Pink
      Regards From Chuck Pink

      Regards from Chuck Pink is an album by United States guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1988.The song "Busy Signal" is the only song by Leo Kottke nominated for a Grammy award....
    • Standing in My Shoes
      Standing In My Shoes

      Standing In My Shoes is a 1997 album by guitarist Leo Kottke. It is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary music which surprised a few of Kottke's long-time fans....
    • That's What
      That's What

      That's What is one of the more idiosyncratic releases by solo steel-string guitar artist Leo Kottke. It is distinctive in its jazzy nature and "talking" songs ....


  • Diego Modena, Jean-Philippe Audin
    • Ocarina
    • Ocarina II


  • Kate & Anna McGarrigle
    • Heartbeats Accelerating
      Heartbeats Accelerating

      Heartbeats Accelerating is the title track of a 1990 album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. It was issued as the premier single from Linda Ronstadt's 1993 Winter Light album....


  • Patrick O'Hearn
    Patrick O'Hearn

    Patrick O'Hearn is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist....
    • Ancient Dreams
    • Between Two Worlds
    • Eldorado
    • Indigo
    • Mix-Up
    • River's Gonna Rise
    • The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn


  • The Pahinui Brothers


  • Sanford Ponder
    • Etosha - Private Music in the Land of Dry Water
    • Tigers Are Brave


  • Willy Porter
    Willy Porter

    Willy Porter is a contemporary United Statesn folk musician from Mequon, Wisconsin. His career as a published singer began in 1990 with his album, The Trees Have Soul, although his popularity began in 1994 with his album Dog-Eared Dream, which had the successful single Angry Words, and led to his touring as an opening act for art...


  • Kenny Rankin
    Kenny Rankin

    Kenny Rankin is an United States pop and jazz singer and songwriter from the Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York....


  • Shadowfax
    Shadowfax (band)

    Shadowfax was a new age/electronic music musical group, best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village. In 1988 they won the Grammy for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village....
    • The Odd Get Even


  • Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar

    Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
    • Bridges: Best of Private Music Recordings
    • Inside The Kremlin
    • Tana Mana


  • Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
    • Time Takes Time
      Time Takes Time

      Time Takes Time is Ringo Starr's 1992 critically acclaimed comeback album. His first studio album since 1983's Old Wave, it followed a successful 1989/1990 world tour with his All-Starr Band....


  • Andy Summers
    Andy Summers

    Andy Summers is an England guitarist and composer best known for his work in The Police. Summers' primary guitars are the Fender Telecaster, Fender Stratocaster, and various Hamer Guitars models when playing rock; and Gibson Guitar Corporation electric guitars when playing jazz fusion and jazz....
    • Charming Snakes
    • Mysterious Barricades
    • The Golden Wire
    • World Gone Strange


  • Taj Mahal
    Taj Mahal

    The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Empire list of Mughal emperors Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal....
    • Like Never Before
      Like Never Before

      Like Never Before is an album by United States blues artist Taj Mahal ....
    • Dancin' the Blues
    • Senor Blues
      Seņor Blues

      Se?or Blues is a 1997 album by blues musician Taj Mahal , featuring a cover of James Brown 's "Think ". It won Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording at that year's Grammy Awards....
    • Phantom Blues
      Phantom Blues

      Phantom Blues is an album by United States blues artist Taj Mahal ....


  • Leon Redbone
    Leon Redbone

    Leon Redbone is an American singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics....


  • Tangerine Dream
    Tangerine Dream

    Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
    • Lily on the Beach
    • Melrose
    • Miracle Mile (Soundtrack)
    • Optical Race
    • Private Music of Tangerine Dream


  • John Tesh
    John Tesh

    John Frank Tesh is a decorated United States pianist and composer of pop and contemporary Christian music, selling 7 million records. He is also a nationally syndicated radio host , and has previously served as a sportscaster for the Olympic Games, news anchor and reporter....
    • Tour de France
    • Tour de France...The Early Years


  • Toots Thielemans
    Toots Thielemans

    Jean-Baptiste Fr?d?ric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgium jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his highly accomplished Puccalo....


  • David Van Tieghem
    David Van Tieghem

    David Van Tieghem is an United States musician, percussionist, drummer, keyboardist, Performance Art, video artist and theater performer, notorious for his philosophy of applying any available object as a percussion instrument and his collaborations with Experimental rock artist Laurie Anderson....
    • Safety In Numbers
    • Strange Cargo


  • Jennifer Warnes
    Jennifer Warnes

    Jennifer Jean Warnes is an United States singer and songwriter. She is best known for her rich alto voice, her interpretations of work by James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, and Buffy Sainte Marie, and for her association with the soundtracks of a number of popular films during the 1970s, '80s and '90s....


  • Susan Werner
    Susan Werner

    Susan M. Werner is an United States singer-songwriter. Much of Werner's work has been in the folk music genre....


  • Jimmy Witherspoon
    Jimmy Witherspoon

    Jimmy Witherspoon was an United States blues singer.James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U....


  • Yanni
    Yanni

    Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
    • Optimystique
      Optimystique

      Optimystique, is Yanni's first album, released on the Atlantic label in 1984, and Private Music label in 1989, .*From album liner: Optimystique was recorded in 1980 and released for the first time in 1984....
    • Keys to Imagination
      Keys to Imagination

      Keys to Imagination is Yanni's second album, released on the Private Music label in 1986 ....
    • Out of Silence
      Out of Silence

      Out of Silence is Yanni's third album, released on the Private Music label in 1987 . It was during this year that Yanni was putting together his first touring band which included Giovanna Joyce Imbesi and John Tesh on keyboards, and Charlie Adams on drums....
    • Chameleon Days
      Chameleon Days

      Chameleon Days is Yanni's fourth album, released on the Private Music label in 1988 . It peaked at #2 on Billboard Magazine "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year....
    • Niki Nana
      Niki Nana

      Niki Nana, is Yanni's fifth album, released on the Private Music label in 1989, . It peaked at #2 on Billboard Magazine "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year....
    • Reflections of Passion
      Reflections of Passion

      Reflections of Passion, is Yanni's sixth album, released on the Private Music label in 1990, , with a concert tour the same year and same title....
    • In Celebration of Life
      In Celebration of Life

      In Celebration of Life, is Yanni's seventh album, released on the Private Music label in 1991, . It topped at #3 on "Billboard Magazine "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #60 on the "Billboard 200" in the same year....
    • Dare to Dream
      Dare to Dream (Yanni album)

      Dare to Dream, is Yanni's eighth album, released on the Private Music label in 1992, . The album peaked at #2 on "Billboard Magazine "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #32 on the "Billboard 200" chart in the same year....
    • In My Time
      In My Time

      In My Time, Yanni's ninth album, released on the Private Music label in 1993, . This album is a gentler collection of piano-focused pieces....
    • Yanni Live at the Acropolis
      Yanni Live at the Acropolis

      Yanni Live at the Acropolis, is the name of both an album and video by contemporary instrumental musician Yanni, recorded live at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, Greece, on September 25, 1993, and released in 1994....


  • Dan Zanes
    Dan Zanes

    Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band, The Del Fuegos and is currently the front man of the Grammy winning group Dan Zanes and Friends....
    • Cool Down Time (1995)


  • Yanni Compilations
    • Winter Light
    • In the Mirror
    • The Private Years
      The Private Years

      'The Private Years' is a compilation project released by Private Music in 1999, . It is a Box set that features five of Yanni albums for Private Music ? Reflections of Passion, In Celebration of Life, Dare to Dream , In My Time, and Yanni Live at the Acropolis, as well as the DVD of his concert film Yanni Live at the...
    • Devotion: The Best of Yanni
    • The Collection
    • Enraptured: A Collection of Yanni Favorites
    • A Collection of Romantic Themes
      • Love Songs
      • Aria
      • Ultimate Yanni
      • Swept Away


  • Various (Samplers)
    • The World of Private Music, Vol. 1
    • The World of Private Music, Vol. 2
    • The Private Music Sampler 1988
    • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 4
    • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 5
    • Piano One
    • Piano Two
    • Polar Shift


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...