Jim Steinman
James Richard Steinman, Jim Steinman called ( born November 1, 1947 in New York ) is an American rock and musical composer and music producer.
Activity as a songwriter & producer
He wrote, among other things, a large part of Meat Loaf songs as well as several musicals, including the music for Dance of the Vampires and the text to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind. The songs that he wrote for Bonnie Tyler, broke with their prior country 's image and made them an overnight rock legend. Jim Steinman still wrote the two songs that were recorded under the group name Fire Inc. for the soundtrack to the movie Streets of Fire. Fire Inc. took otherwise on any further securities. Artists from Steinman's songs were, among others, yet Billy Squier and Céline Dion.
Jim Steinman's songs are known that they are interpreted by many artists over generations. So comes the song It's all coming back to me now originally from the album Original Sin of the women's group Pandora 's Box of 1989 Seven years later, the song by Céline Dion was sung before it then turn on the album Bat Out of Hell III. : the Monster is Loose was interpreted in 2006 as a duet by Meat Loaf and Marion Raven. Other examples: Left in the dark was sung by Jim Steinman himself, Meat Loaf and Barbra Streisand; the Meat Loaf title Read'em and Weep (1981 ) two years later became a number 1 in the U.S. adult contemporary charts for Barry Manilow.
His best-known hits are Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell, I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Will not Do That ) and Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Jim Steinman coined the Wagnerian rock, as he calls his style of music in reference to Richard Wagner himself.