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Derek Brin is a multi-platinum, award-winning music producer, sound designer, and mix engineer.
Career
Brin, whose father is from St. Thomas and mother is Trinidadian, was born in Toronto, but raised between Toronto and the US Virgin Islands. Before starting his own company, Brin spent 10 years as the in-house Composer, Sound Editor, and Head of Audio Operations at Visual Productions, a film and television production company, based in Toronto and South Africa.
Brin has worked with several of the industry's hottest artists, including Ne-Yo, Dan Hill, Jaheim, RuPaul, Kelly Price, Che'Nelle, Massari, Jane Zhang, Noel G, Dru, Andreea Bălan, Keo, Puya, Keshia Chanté, Kristine W, and Dream Warriors. Brin has been engineer and programmer for hit songwriter Dan Hill since 2004 and programmer for industry heavyweights like Diane Warren (Realsongs), Guy Roche, Jud Friedman, and Allan Rich.
Brin's work has been featured on So You Think You Can Dance, The Hills, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Degrassi Goes Hollywood, Wild Discovery, Supermarket Sweep, The Mom Show, Blue Murder, Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, Cover Guy, The NHL Awards, and Fashion File. He also contributed to Pokémon: The First Movie, Save The Last Dance 2, Blue Streak, Smokin' Aces, Poker Night, and Replikator.
Brin founded Fierce Music Entertainment Inc., based in Toronto, Los Angeles, and the Caribbean. He is also CEO and creator of iCaribbeanTunes.com, a major portal where the film, television, and video game industries can go to license music from the Caribbean. In 2007, Brin signed an international publishing deal with Ole Music Publishing. In 2009, Brin was appointed to the board of directors of the Urban Music Association of Canada (UMAC) as Director of Artist Relations.
Selected discography
One Track Mind by TBTBT (Too Bad to be True) - 1993
Can I Get A Yo by Graphidi Logik - 1994
Subliminal Simulation by Dream Warriors - 1994
Flex by Belinda - 1996
Do You Know (What It Takes) by Robyn - 1997 (No. 7 Billboard Top 100 single, US gold)
Pokémon: The First Movie, soundtrack - 1998
While You Were Gone by Kelly Price (Blue Streak soundtrack) - 1999
Stamina by Rameses - 1999
Stronger by Kristine W - 2000 (No. 1 Billboard Dance)
www.fan-ta-see by Innosense - 2000
Closer by In Essence - 2003
Nothing Left To Say by Ryan Malcolm - 2003
Unconditional by Kalan Porter - 2004
Unpredictable by Keshia Chanté - 2004 (Canada gold)
Red Hot by RuPaul - 2004
Daddy Thing by Jaheim - 2006 (No. 1 entry Billboard Top 200)
Hungry For Love by Andreea Bălan - 2006
I Fell In Love With The DJ by Che'Nelle - 2007
Body Body by Massari - 2009
Under The Radar by Massari - 2009
Would You Mind by Dru - 2009
Selected filmography
= Film
=Pokémon: The First Movie - 1998
Blue Streak - 1999
Save The Last Dance 2 - 2006
Smokin' Aces - 2006
Degrassi Goes Hollywood - 2009
= TV
=Supermarket Sweep - 1993-2012
Blue Murder - 2003-2004
Da Kink in My Hair - 2007-2009
The Mom Show - 2007-2012
The Hills - 2008
So You Think You Can Dance (US) - 2008
Kanako, Challenging the System (Documentary) - 2009
Degrassi Goes Hollywood - 2009
So You Think You Can Dance (Canada) - 2010
Positive Women (Documentary) - 2012
Awards and nominations
= Juno Award
== International Soca Awards
=Brin composed music for the television series, Adventures in Evergreen Forest, which won a CANPRO Award for Best Children's Programming.
Brin received Canadian Urban Music Awards for Album of the Year and Best R&B Single. In 2004, he was nominated for Producer of the Year.
In 2007, Brin co-produced the song "Beautiful Surprise" for Philip7, which received a nomination for Best Alternative Song at the Barbados Music Awards.
References
External links
Derek Brin on Myspace
Derek Brin on LinkedIn
Derek Brin at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Sriwijaya
- 2020-an
- Otto Hahn
- Skenario Terburuk (Razzie)
- Derek Brin
- Forever Massari
- 219 Days
- Red Hot (album)
- Massari
- So Together
- Canadian hip hop
- Black Community Mixtapes
- Subliminal Simulation
- Pokémon: The First Movie (soundtrack)
