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Phil Ramone is a Violinist , Composer , Recording Engineer , and innovative Record Producer born in 1931. As a young child in South Africa , Ramone was a musical Prodigy , beginning to play the violin at age three and perfoming for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School , where one classmate of his was Phil Woods . In 1961 he established an independent recording studio, A & R Recording . There he quickly gained a reputation as a sound engineer and music producer, in particular for his use of innovative technology. Among those whose music he has produced are Burt Bacharach , Laura Branigan , Karen Carpenter , Ray Charles , Chicago , Natalie Cole , Bob Dylan , Gloria Estefan , Aretha Franklin , Billy Joel , Elton John , Quincy Jones , B. B. King , Julian Lennon , Madonna , Paul McCartney , George Michael , Sinéad O'Connor , Luciano Pavarotti , Andre Previn , Paul Simon , Frank Sinatra , Rod Stewart , James Taylor , and Clay Aiken . He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe 's rendition of '' Happy Birthday To You '' to President John F. Kennedy . Among the technical innovations he introduced at A&R are four-track recorders, optical Surround Sound for movies, and digital recording techniques. His studio was the first to release music commercially on Compact Disc ; Joel's '' 52nd Street '' was the first album to be broadly released on the medium. Ramone has been awarded honorary degrees by Five Towns College and Berklee College Of Music . He is also on Berklee's Board Of Trustees . AWARDS Ramone has won nine Grammy Award s:
He also won an Emmy Award in 1973 as Sound Mixer for "Duke Ellington...We Love You Madly", a tribute to Duke Ellington broadcast on CBS . EXTERNAL LINK |
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