Joey Carbone

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Joey Carbone
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Occupation(s)Music composer and producer

Joey Carbone is a composer, music producer, arranger and keyboardist. [1] After a period as a session musician for, among other Elton John, Carbone became a music director for television programmes, such as Star Search. Since the 1980s he has worked as a prolific producer for Japanese pop acts. [2] [3]

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Early life

Carbone was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 16, Carbone was signed as a singer in a band with Richie Zito to Atlantic Records by one of Atlantic's founders, Jerry Wexler. Carbone took a summer job working at Atlantic, where he watched recording sessions by Aretha Franklin, the Rascals, Cream, and the Rolling Stones. [2]

Career overview

Carbone moved to Los Angeles and became a keyboardist and vocalist for recording sessions and concerts. He played keyboards for Kiki Dee and Elton John, Rick James, the Righteous Brothers, Eric Carmen, Rod Stewart, Cher, Air Supply, Andy Gibb, Bette Midler and others. [2]

Carbone was the music director and theme composer for nine years for the television series Star Search. [4] He arranged, produced, conducted, and played piano for performers including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Alanis Morissette, LeAnn Rimes, Justin Timberlake and others. He won a Cable ACE Award for composing and producing the theme song for the series It's Garry Shandling's Show , [5] on which he served as music director.

He composed and arranged music for China Beach , Falcon Crest , Entertainment Tonight , and others. He has also produced and/or composed albums for Japan-based record companies for American singers including Little Richard, Alyssa Milano, [6] Joseph Williams and Bobby Kimball of Toto, Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff of the group Chicago, John O'Banion, Edward Furlong, Irene Cara, Zoom, Mylin, [7] Neil Sedaka, Tiffany, Warren DeMartini (Ratt), the Righteous Brothers, and Sam Moore of Sam & Dave.

He has produced mostly songs for the Japanese market, and has written an estimated thousand songs for artist. [8] [9] These include songs for KAT-TUN, [10] Matsuura Aya, Smap, Wada Akiko, Crystal Kay, Akanishi Jin, Diana & the Treasures, Sexy Zone, Kanjani8, Tsuchiya Anna, Tackey & Tsubasa, N.E.W.S., Hey! Say! JUMP, Van Tomiko, Nakamori Akina, Nakayama Miho, Wink, Shonentai, Shibugakitai, Arashi, Aikawa Nanase, Mari Hamada, Lindberg, Inagaki Junichi, Koyanagi Yuki, Naomi Tamura, Eriko Tamura, and Masatoshi Ono. He has more than 80 Top 10 hits in Japan, [11] and has composed hundreds of songs for Japanese television commercials, movies, and television programs, including the score for the film Satomi Hakken Den (Legend of the Eight Samurai). [12]

Carbone is a contracted advisor to both Sony Records and Avex. [13] He is a lecturer and international advisor at Jikei Gakuen (Tokyo School of Music and Dance). [14] He has given lectures at colleges and universities in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan.

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