Mervyn Warren
Gospel music, Film music contributor
1964 –
Who is Mervyn Warren?
Mervyn Edwin Warren is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee. Warren has written the underscore and songs for many feature and television films and has written countless arrangements in a variety of musical styles for producers Quincy Jones, David Foster, Arif Mardin, and dozens of popular recording artists, including extensive work on Jones' Back on the Block, Q's Jook Joint, and Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.
Warren has also produced numerous jazz, pop, R&B, contemporary Christian, and gospel artists, typically arranging those recordings, often performing on them, and often writing or co-writing the melodies and lyrics. Warren is best known as an original member of the a cappella vocal group Take 6, for having composed the underscore to the #1 film The Wedding Planner, for producing and arranging songs for the hit film Sister Act 2, and for producing and arranging most of the soundtrack to the Whitney Houston film The Preacher's Wife -- the best-selling Gospel album of all time.
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- Born
- Feb 29, 1964
Huntsville - Also known as
- Mervyn Edwin Warren
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Oakwood College
- Lived in
- Huntsville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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