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Jonathan Hugh Quarmby [1] (born 20 December 1961 in Huddersfield), is an English record producer and songwriter and son of English architect Arthur Quarmby. [2]
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Jonathan Hugh Quarmby [1] (born 20 December 1961 in Huddersfield), is an English record producer and songwriter and son of English architect Arthur Quarmby. [2]
Early life
Jonathan Hugh Quarmby was born on December 20,1961, in Huddersfield, the son of music teacher Jean and architect, Arthur Quarmby. Arthur was an innovative designer, author and thinker, renowned for his work in modular plastics and earth sheltered housing. Educated at Holmfirth Comprehensive, then Pocklington School, Jonathan went on to study architecture at Sheffield University. Having always had a passion for music, he soon became part of Sheffield’s vibrant music scene, eventually moving away from architecture to pursue music as a career.
Sheffield
Jonathan started as a keyboard player, performing on Yazz’s album Wanted and touring with a local band, Floy joy. His transition to record production came with Barclay artists Fred de Fred. Jonathan then collaborated with Axis Studio-based Comsat Angels bass player Kevin Bacon to write and produce Ephraim Lewis's album Skin for Elektra Records. This partnership (Bacon and Quarmby) went on to produce and write in a diverse range of music styles: electro as R&S artists Manna, Britpop with the Longpigs, pop /soul with Lighthouse Family and were most publicly lauded for their contribution to reggae: Finley Quaye (Maverick a Strike) - for which Finley won the ‘Best Male’ Brit Award and Ziggy Marley (Fallen Is Babylon), for which they received the ‘Best Reggae Album’ Grammy award.
London - RAK Studios
Relocating from Sheffield to London's RAK Studios in 2003, Jonathan and Kevin embarked on a prolific journey of music production, including Primal Scream, Mew, the Sugababes, David Garrett, Plan B, The Pretenders, Richard Hawley and Ders'ree.
Awal
In 2004, they founded the groundbreaking music company, AWAL, with Apple consultant; Denzyl Feigelson. Awal redefined online aggregation, with its 30 day none negotiable agreement and data tracking and analysis tool, Buzzdeck. With offices in Sheffield and London,The business grew eventually distributing over 3000 independent artists including The Arctic Monkeys, David Gray, and Madness. In 2012 AWAL was sold to Kobalt, (who went on to sell it to Sony in 2021 for $430,000,000) !! Jonathan, Kevin and Denzyl were retained by Kobalt for two years.
Back to RAK
In 2014 Jonathan returned to RAK and music creation, this time focussing equally on song writing and production. Initially managed by Richard Antwi, he worked with Daley, Mahalia and Jacob Banks, before achieving his first significant success with Benjamin Clementine, who’s album At Least For Now which won the Mercury prize in 2015. Jonathan had a part in the writing and produced and mixed the whole album (the track Nemesis is also the theme to Apple’s critically acclaimed drama - 'The Morning Show’). More established as a writer, Jonathan collaborated with Lewis Capaldi, on the single Tough, Tiggs Da Author, co writing, producing and mixing much of the album Blame It On The Youts produced Tom Walker's track Just You and I, co -wrote and produced the single and TV show theme by Mika It’s My House, co-wrote four songs on the no.1 album by James Arthur Back From The Edge including the title track and second single Safe Inside. and even produced half the (contested) no 1 album "Got It Covered,” for Children in Need. Most recently he has produced and mixed eight tracks on Cian Ducrot's No. 1 Deluxe Album; Victory, co written, produced and mixed 3 Eyes Open for GreenTea Peng - which appears on the album Greenzone 108, co written, produced and mixed the album Child Of Sin by the incredible Dutch artist Kovacs, and has just finished two Parisian projects, producing and mixing an acoustic African album with Tiken Jay Fakoli and producing an album for French legend; Olivia Ruiz
Globe Town Records
In 2018, Jonathan joined Globe Town Records, an emerging label based in Hoxton, London. They faced the challenges of lockdown together, working with some incredible voices such as Tycho Jones, Tom Rasmussen and Faisal Salah (Facesoul).
1990s
Fred De Fred - Treize En Vie - P (1991) Ephraim Lewis – Skin - W/P/M (1992) Manna – Manna - W/P/M (1994) Lightning Seeds – Dizzy Heights - P/M (1996) The Longpigs – The Sun Is Often Out - P/M (1996) Eagle Eye Cherry – "Save Tonight" single - adP/M (1997) Finley Quaye – Maverick a Strike - P/M (1997) Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers – Fallen Is Babylon - P/M (1997) Del Amitri – Hatful of Rain - P/M (1998) Ian Brown – "Can't See Me" single - P/M (1998) The Longpigs – Mobile Home - P/M (1999) Audioweb - Audioweb - P/M (1996) Koot – Mississippi Soul - P/M (1999)
2000’s
Ben Onono – Badagry Beach - P/M (2000) Finley Quaye - Vanguard - P/M (2001) Lighthouse Family – Whatever Gets You Through The Day - P/M (2001) Sugababes – "Round Round" single - P (2002) - No 1 UK The Pretenders – Loose Screw - P/M (2002) Finley Quaye - Much More Than Much Love - P/M (2003) Des'ree – Dream Soldier - P/M (2003) Richard Hawley – Run for Me - P/M (2003) Shaznay Lewis – Open - P/M (2004) The Stands – All Years Leaving - P/M (2004) Oi Va Voi – Laughter Through Tears - P/M (2004) Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites - adP/M (2005) Ben Taylor – Another Run Around the Sun - P/M (2005) Engineers - Home - P/M (2005) Richard Hawley - The Ocean. - P/M (2005) The Dualers – Don't Go (single) - P/M (2006) Sophie Solomon – Poison Sweet Madeira - P/M (2006) Primal Scream – Sometimes I feel so Lonely - P/M (2006) Plan B – Mamma - P/M (2006) Tiken Jah Fakoli – L'Africain - P/M (2007) David Ford – Songs for the Road - P/M (2007) David Garret – Virtuoso - W/P/M (2007) Beth Rowley – Little Dreamer - P/M (2007) Dick Rivers – L'Homme Sans Age - P/M (2008) Mattafix - Rhythm & Hymns - Tracks - P/M (2008) Beverley Knight – 100% - P/M (2009) Netsayi – Monkey's Wedding - W/P/M (2009) Karima Francis – The Author - P/M (2009) Oi Va Voi – Travelling the Face of the Globe - P/M (2009) Soul Survivor (Beverley Knight song) by Beverley Knight - P/M (2009)
2010s
Tony Christie – Now's the Time (Single) - P/M (2011) Tiken Jah Fakoli – African Revolution - W/P/M(2010) Iwan Rheon - singles P/M (2010) Molotov Jukebox "Bang EP" - P/M (2012) Misty Miller – Misty Miller - P/M (2012) Son Of Dave - 03 - Album - P/M (2013) Iwaan Rheon - Bang BAng - EP - P/M (2013) Tiken Jah Fakoli – Derniere Appel - W/P/M (2014) Daley – Broken - P/M (2014) Jacob Banks – Move With You - P (2014) Benjamin Clementine – At Least For Now (2015) Gabrielle Aplin – Coming Home - P (2015) Tiken Jah Fakoli – Racines - P/M (2015) Aura Dione – Love Somebody - P/M (2016) Patricia Kaas – Patricia Kaas (2016) George Oglivie – October (2016) George Oglivie – Foreign Hands (2016) James Arthur – Back From The Edge - tracks - (2016) W/VxP. – no.1 UK Aura Dione - Can’t Steal the Music P/M (2017) Light House Family - tracks - Blue Sky In Your Head (2017) Thomas David - To Love - Album - W/P/M (2017) Hannah Grace - Praise You P/M (2017) Leo Stannard - Gravity - P/M (2017) Hannah Grace - Oh River P/M (2018) Shane Filan - Girl In My Heart - W/P/M (2018) Leo Stannard - Home / Five Years Later W/P/M (2018) Nikhil - Tracks and singles (2018) Dan Owen - Tracks and singles (2018) Alex the Astronaut - Waste of Time (2018) MIka - It's My House - single - 2018 W/P Lewis Capaldi - (2018) Tough W/P Jeremy Loops - Critical As Water - tracks - W (2018) Jordan Max - Careless - W/P/M (2018) Dekel - Hello - Album - W/P/M (2018) Tom Walker – Just You And I (2017/9) P/M - no.1 UK Aine - Dislocated - W/P/M (2019) James Arthur - You (2019) - tracks - P No.2 UK Korantemaa - Bitter - W/PM (2019) Kawala - Counting The Miles - EP - W/P/M (2019) Toby Johnson - Carolina EP - W/P/M (2019) MIka - My Name Is Michael Holbrook - track- P (2019) Children In Need - Got It Covered - (2019) no1 UK (contested) Calling Out - Andreas Moe - W (2019) James Morrison - You're Stronger Than You Know (2019)
2020s
Ward Thomas - An Invitation - P/M (2020) Kawala - Heavy In The Morning - W (2020) Sody - Reason To Stay P (2020) Janet Devlin - Confessional - Album - W/P/M (2020) Amrit Kaur - singles - W/P/M (2020) Ward Thomas / Dan Owen - Someone to Someone W/P/M (2020) Tycho Jones - Don’t Be Afraid - P/M (2021) Toby Johnson - Chaos - EP W/P/M (2021) VC Pines - Smoke Without Fire W/P (2021) Sam Ryder - Sun’s Gonna Rise - W (2021) Jeremy Loops - Sit Down Love - W/P/M (2021) Andrew Lloyd Webber - Far Too Late - single - P/M (2021) Tiggs Da Author Blame It On The Youts Album - tracks - W/P/M (2021) Jessie James Decker - The Woman I’ve Become - W (2021) Albin Lee Meldau - Forget About Us W/P (2022) Tim Gallagher - Growing Pains - P (2022) Tim Gallagher - Every Little Word - W/P (2022) GreenTea Peng - Three Eyes Open W/P/M (2022) Elouise Alterman - Four In The Morning - W (2022) Isaac Stuart - Cut Me Down W/P/M (2022) Jeremy Loops - Postcards - W (2022) Maimuna Memon - First Born Child - P (2022) Tycho Jones - Clouds -W/P/M (2022) Aura Dione - Marry Me - W/P (2022) Emmadop - Superstar Album - W/P/M (2022) Megan McKenna - Single - Single - W/P/M (2022) Tycho Jones - Negative Space - EP W/P/M (2022) Caitlyn Scarlet - Forgive Yourself - W/P/M (2023) Tom Webber - tracks (2023) Talia Roux - Take You With Me - EP - W/P/M (2023) The Jordan - Amsterdam W (2023) Lewis Fitzgerald - Our House - P/M (2023) Dekel Desert Moon - Album - W/P/M (2023) Marlon Roudette - No Water W/P (2023) Kovacs - Child Of Sin W/P/M (2023) Ben Taylor - singles - P/M (2023) Iyamah - Chasing Dreams W/P (2023) Tom Webber - The Rak Tracks - W/P/M (2023) Jainda - Singles - W/P/M (2023) Psykhi - Forest People EP - W/P/M (2023) Matthew Mole - Say You’ll Be Mine -W (2023) Maya Lane - Childish Games EP - W/P/M (2023) Tom Rasmussen - Body Building - tracks W/P/M (2023) Face Soul - Faith In Me W/P/M (2023) Cian Ducroft - Victory (duluxe) P/M 2023 - No.1 UK
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