Years active 1990–present Spouse Kasia Klisowska (m. 2013) Website www.miklosmalek.com | Name Miklos Malek Role Musical Artist Siblings Andrea Malek | |
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Occupation(s) Music producer, songwriter, mixing & mastering engineer Nephews Gabor Princz, Peter Princz Similar People Fero Nagy, Peter Geszti, Andrea Malek, Tibor Kocsis, Maria Toldy | ||
Parents Maria Toldy, Miklos Malek Music director Catcher: Cat City 2 | ||
Miklos Malek (in Hungarian Ifj. Malek Miklós) (born in Budapest, Hungary on 15 April 1975) is a Hungarian songwriter, music producer and artist and television personality, who is a resident of Los Angeles. He has produced for a number of renowned artists. He is also a judge and mentor in the Hungarian version of X-Faktor.
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Musical career
Los Angeles-based music producer, songwriter and mixing engineer Miklos Malek grew up in a family of renowned musicians in Budapest. After receiving a master's degree in classical piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he moved to the U.S. to study at Berklee College of Music. In the early 2000s, he moved to New York where he was signed as a songwriter to Notation Music Publishing which led to his breakthrough as a co-writer and arranger of Anastacia's “I Thought I Told You That” (featuring Faith Evans) and the opportunity to work on Jennifer Lopez' hit song "Love Don't Cost a Thing". During the following years, he also established himself as a music producer and mixing engineer working on projects such as Jessica Andrews, M2M, Dream, Sylvia Tosun, David Phelps, Marion Raven, Hiromi Go (Japan), Coco Lee, Plus One.
In 2006, Miklos moved to Los Angeles and launched his first studio in Hollywood called "Orange Room". Since then he has been working with a wide variety of US and international artists, including Pixie Lott (UK), Ayaka Hirahara (Japan), Sylwia Grzeszczak (Poland), Kat Graham, Justyna Steczkowska (Poland), Janice Dickinson, Tata Vega and Yanni, with whom Miklos has collaborated on 3 albums: Voices, Truth of Touch, and Yanni Live at El Morro, Puerto Rico.
In 2010, he became a judge in the Hungarian X-Faktor talent show and a mentor for the groups. In 2011, he returned to the show mentoring the "Over 25s" and Tibor Kocsis of his team won the second series. In 2012, his contestants took the 2nd (Tímea Antal) and 3rd (Adél Csobot) place. After, the third season of X-Faktor, Miklos decided to end his journey with the show and return to his studio in Los Angeles. Since then, he has been developing new artists in the U.S. and internationally. More recently he is working with new artist, Anika Wilmore. Miklos' work has been featured on over 15 million records.
Personal life
Born in Budapest in 1975, he is the son of the famous classical composer Miklós Malek and pop singer and music teacher Mária Toldy. His sister Andrea Malek is also a singer and actress.