Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew " Rob" Hyman ( born April 24, 1950 in Meriden, Connecticut ) is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, producer and founding member of the rock band The Hooters. He is married and has two sons.
Career
Hyman began at the age of four years of playing the piano and plays numerous instruments such as piano, keyboard, accordion, melodica, guitar and mandolin. After playing in local bands in his hometown, he met at the University of Pennsylvania on Eric Bazilian. With him, he first founded two less successful bands called Wax and Baby Grand - the latter released two albums on Arista Records - before the two 1980 band The Hooters called into life.
In addition to Hooters, he also works for many other artists. He owns his own recording studio, Elm Street Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 2000, he was honored by the Philadelphia Music Alliance with a plaque on the Philadelphia Walk of Fame.
Success with the Hooters
Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian is next to the musical leader of the Hooters. With him, he is the main songwriter of the band and is responsible for the typical sound.
A worldwide audience was the band known as she opened the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia in 1985. Particularly well received, then took their music in Germany and Scandinavia. After 1995, the band took a break and played in 2001 for the first time together.
Work with other artists
Even before the Hooters were known on the music scene of Philadelphia addition, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian were asked for the first studio album of a hitherto unknown artist named Cyndi Lauper help out in the recordings. Both worked as a musician and arranger at She's So Unusual with. Rob Hyman wrote with her worldwide hit Time After Time and also sang the chorus. This earned him a 1985 Grammy nomination for Song of the Year a. Also on Lauper's 1993 album Hat Full of Stars erschienenem he was involved as a songwriter and studio musician.
In 1995, he worked as a songwriter and studio musician with Joan Osborne's album Relish, which was nominated for several Grammys.
In 1998, Rob Hyman and Rick Chertoff met a number of artists - including Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborne, Carole King and members of the Hooters - the concept album Largo to produce, which was inspired by Antonín Dvořák's Symphony From the New World.
For the soundtrack of the film The Grinch, he was involved as a songwriter and producer of the song Christmas of Love.
Other artists for the Hyman has worked as a songwriter, producer, arranger and instrumentalist, for example, Ricky Martin, whose hit Private Emotion is a cover of a Hooters songs, Dar Williams, Patty Smyth, Jon Bon Jovi, The Chieftains and Carole King.