Curtis Frasca

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Curtis Frasca is an American entrepreneur, real estate investor, record label owner, music publisher, and former multi-platinum award-winning record producer, songwriter, musician, studio owner and recording engineer.

Career

Frasca is a former multi-platinum record producer, songwriter, musician, re-mixer, engineer, and instrumentalist. Frasca's work appears on over 100 million albums sold worldwide

Growing up in New York, Frasca was drumming at an early age. As a teenager, he was heavily influenced by^[peacock prose] the punk rock & roll, like The Jam, Sex Pistols, MC5, The Clash Ramones^{[citation needed]}. His professional career started while still in high school^{[citation needed]} mixing, recording, programming on such influential^{[peacock prose]} records as De La Soul "Say No Go", 3rd Bass "Brooklyn Queens" [2], "The Gas Face", albums produced by Prince Paul. Other artist's Frasca worked with during this period include Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane, Fine Young Cannibals "Good Thing".^{[citation needed]}

1990

Moby requested

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Frasca mix his major label debut Move, the album entered the Billboard dance chart at number #1 Move (Moby song). Remixing k.d. lang "Lifted by Love" [3], Sophie B. Hawkins "Right Beside You" [4], Tangerine Dream, Paul Haslinger amongst many others. [5]

Frasca founded Verse Entertainment [6]. Verse Entertainment featured a private multi-room facility located NYC - Verse Studio was profiled in MIX magazine October 1999 issue. Verse Studios is a combination of vintage gear and digital recording tools featuring a custom Neve 8058 console from the 1970s and SSL 9000J.^{[citation needed]}

2000

In 2001 after attempts to capture Avril Lavigne sound,

2002 Frasca and Sabelle Breer signed Ryan Cabrera^{[citation needed]} producing and co-writing much of his multi-platinum debut, release Take It All Away which debut on at #18 the Billboard 200 album charts. The album included the Top 40 "On The Way Down" and "40 Kinds of Sadness". The single "On the Way Down" went double platinum and received an ASCAP Pop Award for most airplay of 2006.[8]

Frasca wrote "Warm Whispers" with the great,^{[peacock prose]} Missy Higgins for her album On A Clear Night.^{[citation needed]} The album entered the charts at number #1.

In 2009, Frasca founded

Frasca partnered with (private equity) firm The Wicks Group [10], "https://www.wicksgroup.com" Raising $75 million to acquire entertainment intellectual property. 2010 the company officially renamed Verse Music Group. [11]

In 2015, Frasca and partners The Wicks Group sold Verse Music Group to BMG Rights Management. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. [12], [13]

• The Cactus Album 3rd Bass
• Say No Go" De La Soul
• On the Way Down Ryan Cabrera
• A Very Special Christmas Celine Dion
• Under My Skin Avril Lavigne

References

External links

• Discogs [14]
• Allmusic [15]
• Billboard Magazine News [16] Archived 2013-01-15 at archive.today
• People Magazine [17]
• The Middle Market [18]
• The Middle Market [19]
• Billboard Magazine News [20] Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Billboard Magazine News [21] Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine