Walter Afanasieff

Walter Afanasieff’s credits include recordings by Celine Dion (“Beauty as well as the Beast”), Mariah Carey, Coko, Luther Vandross, Peabo Bryson, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Natalie Cole, All-4-1, Allure featuring 112, Regina Belle, Trey Lorenz (“You to definitely Keep”), Shanice Wilson, and Barbra Streisand. He co-wrote with Carey her strikes “Can’t RELEASE,” “Butterfly,” “Close My Eye,” “Forever,” and tracks from her Merry Xmas recording. He co-produced Savage Garden’s solitary “I Knew I Loved You,” released in fall 1999. Afanasieff’s personal “Wonders” appears for the Windham Hill different artists compilation Tracks Without Words. Created Feb 10, 1958, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Afanasieff’s first big break was playing keyboards for Jean-Luc Ponty. No “on-stage” person, he prefers employed in the saving studio. Fortunately, maker/songwriter/drummer Narada Michael Walden (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin) became Afanasieff’s coach, using him on his large numbers of recording projects, composing pop tracks with him, and employing him as an employee maker/arranger at his Tarpan Studios. Afanasieff could be noticed on such Walden-produced tasks as Whitney Houston’s self-titled 11-million-selling 1985 debut recording (number 1 Pop for 14 weeks on Billboard’s pop recording charts around the summertime of 1985, her Whitney LP (number 1 Pop for 11 weeks, summer season 1987), as well as the I’m YOUR CHILD Tonight recording (number 1 pop for 11 weeks, summer season 1990). A short look into Afanasieff’s sizable music list would produce “Can’t Prevent the Rainfall” co-written with John Bettis (Peabo Bryson, Grover Washington Jr.), “WOULD YOU Still Keep in mind” with Preston Cup and Jeffrey Cohen (Aretha Franklin), “Help Me personally Discover a way to Your Center” with Alan Gorrie, Jeffrey Smith, Daryl Hall, Peter Moreland, and Mariah Carey (Daryl Hall), amongst others. Afanasieff could be noticed on albums by Eddie Murphy (So Happy’s “Put THE MOUTH AREA on Me,” number 2 R&B, summer season 1989), Brenda Russell (Biggest Strikes), Clarence Clemons (Hero), Aretha Franklin (the platinum LP Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, Regina Belle (STICK WITH Me), Patti Labelle (End up being Yourself, Burnin’), Michael Bolton (Period, Like & Tenderness), Puff Johnson (Magic), Grover Washington Jr. (Soulful Strut), Babyface (Xmas With Babyface), in addition to Ecstasy’s Dance: THE VERY BEST of Narada Michael Walden as well as the soundtracks to Disney’s Beauty as well as the Beast (the Celine Dion/Peabo Bryson name track duet proceeded to go platinum and strike amount nine pop, early 1992), Aladdin, and Hunchback of Notre Dame, Back again to Titanic (Dion’s “My Center Will CONTINUE”), as well as the Timothy Dalton-James Connection movie Permit To Kill.