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Patrick Ray Leonard (born March 14, 1956 in Crystal Falls, Michigan) is an American songwriter, keyboardist, film composer, and music producer, best known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna.
More recently Leonard has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, acting as a writer and producer for 2012’s Old Ideas and 2014’s Popular Problems, and co-writer, co-producer of 2016’s You Want It Darker. "Nevermind," a song from Popular Problems that Leonard co-wrote and produced, was featured as the title theme for Season 2 of HBO'sTrue Detective. Speaking of Patrick in 2016, Cohen remarked that, "He is such a magnificent composer. I don’t think there’s anybody working today with those kinds of skills." Leonard is currently working on a Broadway musical and a modular synthesizer project.
In 1997, Leonard released the instrumental album Rivers on his own record label, Unitone. Leonard has three children: a daughter Jessica, a writer (for whom Madonna's song "Dear Jessie" was written), and two sons, Sean, who is a musician, and Jordan, a projection mapper and VJ under the name Pickels Visuals.
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Early career
Leonard entered the music business with late 1970s Chicago-based pop rock band Whisper, then later the same band membership, Trillion (name changed for legal reasons), featuring future Toto singer Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen on lead vocals. His early career also featured short stints as a keyboardist in Frank Zappa’s band in 1976 and The Allman Brothers Band in 1980.
He went on to act as musical director and lead keyboardist for the Jackson Victory Tour in 1984.
Composed score for the documentary I Am Because We Are (2008). Directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna.
Composed score for Triumph of the Dream (2012). A documentary by photographer and filmmaker Norman Seeff that explores the inner creative process of the scientists at work on NASA’s Mars Rover Mission.
In 2010, Leonard worked with the Martha Graham Dance Company to recompose the music for a pivotal Graham piece featured in the company’s 2010 restaging of American Document. The work premiered at the Joyce Theatre on June 8, 2010.
Roger Waters – album Amused to Death (1992), co-producer and musician ("The most gratifying experience I've ever had," said Leonard. "I adore Roger. I think he's brilliant.")
Lara Fabian – wrote and produced three songs for her first English-language album, Lara Fabian: "Part Of Me", "Givin' Up On You" and "Yeliel (My Angel)"