William Orbit
Electronic music, Record Producer
1956 –
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Who is William Orbit?
William Orbit is an English musician, composer and record producer. In the early 1980s he formed synthpop act Torch Song with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. In 1987 he released the first of his Strange Cargo album series, containing ambient music.
Towards the end of the 1990s Orbit started to work with bigger name artists, producing songs on Ray of Light and Music by Madonna, 13 and Think Tank by Blur and Saints and Sinners by All Saints. His work with Madonna led him to win three Grammys. He worked again with Madonna on her 2012 album MDNA producing six songs.
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- Born
- Dec 15, 1956
Shoreditch - Also known as
- Bass-O-Matic
- Bassomatic
- Strange Cargo
- William Orbit's Strange Cargo
- Orbit
- Willam Ørbit
- William Wainwright
- The Electric Chamber (William Orbit)
- WilliamOrbit
- William Mark Wainwright
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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