Albhy Galuten
American songwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American songwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albhy Galuten (born Alan Bruce Galuten; December 27, 1947) is an American technology executive and futurist, Grammy Award-winning[1] record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and conductor. He has numerous inventions and has produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies.[2] He has won two Grammy Awards, a Dramalogue award, and a BMI Citation of Achievement.
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| Birth name | Alan Bruce Galuten |
| Born | December 27, 1947 Hartsdale, New York, United States |
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| Instrument(s) | Piano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar |
Galuten attended Berklee College of Music.[3]
Galuten's record productions include the soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease," the Eric Clapton recording of "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Jesse Ed Davis, Titanic Love Affair and the Bee Gees. He also formed a production team with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson.[4]
Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt. He is also credited with playing the first synthesizer in reggae.[5]
His US singles include 13 number ones:
Other hit singles include "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" (Eric Clapton), "Love So Right" (Bee Gees), Guilty (Barbra Streisand), "What Kind of Fool" (Barbra Streisand), "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "I Can't Help It" (Olivia Newton-John & Andy Gibb), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Chain Reaction" (Diana Ross), "Eaten Alive" (Diana Ross), "Eyes That See In the Dark" (Kenny Rogers)
He is a Founder at Agora Media[6] and a Senior Fellow, Technology Initiatives at Intertrust Technologies.[7] He has been a vice president at Sony and a Senior Vice President at Universal Music Group and a vice president at Ion. In his various roles as a technology executive, Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).
As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop[8] ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees), the Enhanced CD, and has numerous patents in the areas content distribution and resolution, customer care, User Interface design, emotion-based algorithmic music generation, and media aggregation and optimization.
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