Roxanne Seeman
Roxanne Seeman (* 20th century in New York City June 10, 1954 ) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and music producer. She is best known as a songwriter, among other things Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jacksons, and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Career
Roxanne graduated from a high school in East studies, art and languages at Columbia University, which she graduated with diploma. She found her way into the music industry in 1979 by jazz singer and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater, the newly recorded along with Larry Dunn of Earth, Wind & Fire and producer George Duke instrumentals of Ramsey Lewis with lyrics by Sailor. This project led to another artistic collaboration with Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire.
Cooperation with Billie Hughes
The breakthrough Seeman with musician Billie Hughes, with whom she worked from 1983. The two produced the single and the album Welcome to the Edge, the remaining four months in the Top 10 of the Japanese charts. A total of 520,000 copies were sold. The single was at the Japan Music Awards as a no. 1 International Single of the Year Award. Welcome to the Edge was re-recorded by numerous singers from Japan and China since the publication in Southeast Asia.
One of the most famous songs from the pen of Hughes and Seeman is Philip Bailey Walking on the Chinese Wall. In September 2004, the first time a pop concert at the Great Wall with Alicia Keys was organized as a main act. Walking on the Chinese Wall was the last song of her performance.
Career as a songwriter
Roxanne has been successful in Europe, Asia and South America with song lyrics for international songs. Barbra Streisand recorded Seeman Let's Start Right Now, a Brazilian song, original with Seeman English text. Let's Start Right Now was released as a bonus CD tracks in a limited version Streisand A Love Like Ours album. It was released as a bonus track on the internationally -selling CD If You Ever Leave Me. 2003 Jermaine Jackson appeared with Let's Start Right Now in the program The View. The song was introduced by Barbara Walter. Bette Midler published in 1991 Seeman and Hughes ' Night and Day, a successful song and music video.
In 1993, The Sisters of Mercy debuted with Under the Gun, a successful song and music video composed by Billie Hughes, Roxanne Seeman and Andrew Eldritch with production line of Andrew Eldritch and Billie Hughes. In collaboration with Sarah Brightman and her husband Frank Peterson wrote Seeman harem, plus new original English lyrics for Cancao do Mar, a Portuguese Fadolied originally made famous by Amalia Rodrigues. Sarah Brightman's Harem remained up to 80 weeks in the " Billboard Top 10 Classical Crossover ". Harem was the title of Brightman's world tour, her PBS " Harem: A Desert Fantasy Special" broadcast, and their "Live from Las Vegas ' world tour ( included on DVD). Harem ( Lehman & Rivera Mixes) was the No. 1 Dance titles in the " Hot Dance Club Play Billboard Charts ".
In December 2008, Daniel Lindstrom gave his title Caught in did Feeling free in Sweden - the song was composed by Seeman, Lindstrom and Samsson. In 2009, Roxanne ( Crocodile Tears ) worked on the song Amor en suspense with Alejandra Guzman, Mexico's " Queen of Rock ", with.
Film and Television
Roxanne's works can be heard in numerous film and television productions. Her song So Hard to know was written at the request of Chet Baker. It refers to the Oscar- nominated documentary Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber's tribute film about the life and music Chet Baker. The re-release of Weber's " Let's Get Lost " debuted in London on 5 June 2008.
Welcome to the Edge got an Emmy nomination for Best Original Song in the TV show Santa Barbara. In 1992, Seeman and Hughes received her second Emmy nomination in the Best Original Song category for ' Dream Love ' on the TV show Another World. With Earth, Wind & Fire together wrote Seeman Cruisin ' for Spike Lee's Get on the Bus. A collaboration with Eric Levi ERA and Philip Bailey of ERA led to the final song of the successful French film La Vengeance d'une blonde.
Roxanne wrote Hold On to the Good Things for the film Stuart Little 2, which was taken up by the Grammypreis artist Shawn Colvin. For William Ross' theme for The Young Black Stallion developed and produced Roxanne and Gavin Greenaway the song Born to Ride, sung by Biana Tamimi, a 11 -year-old actress for the DVD release.