Steve Levine

Steve Levine is a British music producer who has worked for the Beach Boys, Culture Club, Gary Moore, Ziggy Marley and Stevie Wonder. He was honored for his work with Grammy Award.

Career

He began his career at CBS studios in 1975., Where he worked in various roles, including as a sound engineer for several bands. Among the punk band The Clash, The Jags, and The Vibrators are mentioned. In addition to these bands, he worked with the pop group Sailor, produced by Bruce Johnston. Since Levine was not satisfied as a sound engineer, promoted and encouraged Johnston to dare him a career move. Levine eventually began to write songs and produce them. When Steve recorded with the band The Angelic Upstarts some songs he became aware that their manager Tony Gordon had a new band under contract. This finally made ​​the contact between Steve and Gordon 's band Culture Club forth. He recorded several songs with the band, the Virgin Records finally took them under contract. Steve produced the following three albums of the band, which should sell more than 20 million records in the coming years. The collaboration ended in 1984.

In the same year finally asked his former mentor, Bruce Johnston, to produce the new Beach Boys album in which Johnston was a member. Since parting with Culture Club, Levine has worked for a wide range of bands and artists, also write and produces film music. For his work with Deniece Williams, he finally won a Grammy. In 2000, Levine produced the Russian contribution to the Euro Vision Song Contest. The song, which reached number 2, is now the best-selling Russian single.

In 2005, Levine introduced the band " One world project" along which the song " Grief never grows old" recorded as part of the tsunami relief. With 100,000 pre-orders, the song reached number 4 in the UK and is currently Levine 's last commercial success.

Today ( 2007) Levine occurs frequently as a guest speaker for companies such as Yamaha, Korg and Apple Computer on.

He now works with even with bands like Charlotte Cooper, Laura Stracey, Zeano, Verbalicious