John DeNicola
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John DeNicola (born October 4, 1955) is an American songwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the song "
Songwriter and producer
A native of Amityville, New York and a longtime resident of Greenwich Village, DeNicola began his musical career as a bass player with "Flight", a band which recorded for Motown in 1980 and was sampled by Erikah Badu on her hit song "Back in the Day".[4] He played with several other acts before changing his career. Although his songwriter portfolio includes music written for and performed by other artists, he is best known for his collaboration with Franke Previte and Donald Markowitz on the award-winning songs for Dirty Dancing.[5][6]
DeNicola shared an imprint, Omad/Paradigm Records, through which he produced a number of albums, before creating his own studio, Jake's Kitchen Sink.
References
- ^ IMDb 'Dirty Dancing' film awards
- ^ John DeNicola Bio pagehttp://johndenicola.com/Bio/index.html
- ^ "John DeNicola - Award-winning songwriter and producer. Dirty Dancing songwriter. Discovering new musical talent and writing songs". johndenicola.com.
- ^ LP "Excursion and Beyond"
- ^ "Awards for Dirty Dancing". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "Songs of John DeNicola". Johndencicokla.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "John Denicola". Facebook. Retrieved 2012-08-14.