Phil Ramone

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Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer.

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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.

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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, Ray Charles, Chicago, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, B. B. King, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Sin?ad O'Connor, Luciano Pavarotti, Andre Previn, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, and James Taylor. He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Happy Birthday to You to President John F. Kennedy.

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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.

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Ramone has been awarded honorary degrees by Five Towns College and Berklee College of Music. He is also on Berklee's Board of Trustees.

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Violinist: A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. The terms fiddler or fiddle player are also used. In classical music the "fiddle" terms are usually somewhat informal or jokey: they are more standard expressions in folk music. In between there are nuances of meaning and usage which are diffi...

Composer: A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises. However, a person may be called a composer without creating m...

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