The stunningly talented producer and songwriter is a 14-time Grammy Award winner with an unprecedented 43 nominations, a recipient of 7 Juno Awards, an Emmy Award in 2004 and a three time Oscar nominee during the course of a magnificent career which spans over three extraordinarily successful decades. To say that everything David Foster touches turns to gold AND usually platinum would be an understatement. With ten albums to his name since his solo recording debut No Words in 1994, Jim Brickman's recording career has been filled with awards and success. He was a smash in every musical endeavor he attempted. Since bursting onto the music scene вЂ“ from commercial jingles to the recording industry, the competitive arena of radio airplay to the concert stage, Jim has appeared to be an overnight success. Jim Brickman, whose distinctive piano personifies pure romance, celebrates his tenth anniversary as one of Windham Hill's best selling recording artists. In 2003, Bareilles co-produced her first independent studio demo, Careful Confessions, and she earned a loyal grassroots following through touring. Much of her adolescence was spent perched in front of a worn piano learning chords and scribbling simple melodies and lyrics. Sara Bareilles is a mesmerizing singer-songwriter who grew up performing in her native Humboldt County, California with no formal training in either voice or piano.

While other artists tend to mellow as their career progresses, Chantal found that she was crafting her most driving work with Ghost Stories. The chords she started to release were immediately different from her earlier work вЂ“ revealing themselves to be much more rhythmic and charging. When Chantal Kreviazuk took to the concert grand piano placed in the kitchen of her home studio to commence the writing of her fourth album, something began to change.

On the weekends, I'd grab my four-track and make the long drive to my parents' house in Pennsylvania because that's where the piano was.' 'Making mine was a total nightmare', laughs Vanessa Carlton one of Rolling Stone's 'Top 10 Artists to Watch in 2002.' 'I was 17 and living in Hell's Kitchen, working five days a week as a waitress in lower Manhattan. There's only one thing tougher than making your debut album, and that's recording your first demo. Paul plays Yamaha grand pianos on stage and in the studio. While Paul McCartney is regarded as one of the foremost musicians in the world, his live shows tend to garner more visibility and regard than may be demonstrated on the music charts. Paul has been tied to countless major musicians throughout his career as a songwriter and collaborator - from producing Cliff Bennett, Paddy, Klaus And Gibson and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, to appearances on sessions by Donovan, Paul Jones and Steve Miller. This platinum selling, award-winning artist uses the Yamaha MP100.ДЇirst came The Beatles, and then, Wings. 1 in 18 countries and making the top 10 in 35.

In the four years since Blunt released Back to Bedlam, heвЂ™s sold 11 million records worldwide, with the album going No. UK singing and songwriting sensation James Blunt has come a long way from his unlikely stint serving four years in the British Army to having 2005's top selling album of the year in the UK with Back to Bedlam.

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