Glen Ballard
Pop music, Record Producer
1953 –
Who is Glen Ballard?
Basil Glen Ballard is an American songwriter, lyricist and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. He was involved in the recording and writing of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bad. As a writer he co-wrote songs like "Man in the Mirror" and "Hand in My Pocket". He is the founder of Java Records.
He won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture for the song "Believe".
Ballard was born in Natchez, Mississippi.
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- Born
- May 1, 1953
Natchez - Also known as
- Ballard, Glen
- Basil Glen Ballard Jr.
- Basil Glen Ballard
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Mississippi
- Lived in
- Natchez
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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