Birth name Giles Martin Music director Noble Role Record producer | Name Giles Martin Labels C.A. Management Nephews Connor Martin | |
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Born 9 October 1969 (age 55) ( 1969-10-09 ) Parents George Martin, Judy Lockhart Smith Siblings Gregory Paul Martin, Alexis Martin, Lucy Martin Awards Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album Similar People | ||
Giles Martin record producer interview
Giles Martin (born 9 October 1969) is an English record producer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His studio recordings, stage shows, TV and film works have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful around the globe. He is the son of Beatles producer George Martin and half-brother of actor Gregory Paul Martin.
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- Giles Martin record producer interview
- Beatles 1 q a w giles martin michael lindsay hogg pt 1 3
- Education
- Life and career
- Awards
- Selected works
- Personal life
- References
Beatles 1 q a w giles martin michael lindsay hogg pt 1 3
Education
Martin was educated at Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, leaving its boarding house, Lyttelton, in 1988, followed by the University of Manchester.
Life and career
Giles Martin grew up without much awareness of the Beatles, and was discouraged by his father from pursuing a career in music lest the inevitable comparisons should be made between father and son. However, Giles carried on, first playing in the band Velvet Jones, then writing jingles in college. In 1995, he was appointed music co-director for the television and radio music countdown show, The Great Music Experience. He worked on the Party at the Palace concert to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, for which he also produced the subsequent album and DVD.
In 2004 he produced Hayley Westenra's multi-platinum album Pure, the UK's fastest-selling classical album of all time. Other acts Martin produced include Kula Shaker, Jeff Beck, Elvis Costello, INXS, and Kate Bush.
In 2006 Martin collaborated with his father to remix, rearrange, and recombine the music of the Beatles into a soundscape for Love, a theatrical production of Cirque du Soleil, which opened at The Mirage in Las Vegas. His use of digital music production and manipulation techniques allowed him to create Love's musical mash-ups. He produced the music for the final Broadway performance of Rent and worked with Martin Scorsese on his George Harrison film documentary Living in the Material World.
In 2009 Martin returned to the Beatles' catalogue with The Beatles: Rock Band, a video game that allows players to simulate performing Beatles songs with plastic instruments. Martin produced the title's music, cleaning and reworking the audio to suit the game's mechanics.
Martin produced tracks and served as executive producer on Paul McCartney's 2013 album New.
Awards
Giles Martin received two Grammy awards, both in 2007 for the Love soundtrack album, as a producer of the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media and as a surround producer of the Best Surround Sound Album.
Selected works
Personal life
He is married to Melanie Gore-Grimes, with whom he has two children. They currently live in London, England.