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Come in and meet our featured artists and writers. This still-expanding area features fresh insight into a range of names you might or might not know -- all of whom Warner/Chappell is proud to represent |  | |
 Johnny Nash - Johnny Nash (born John Lester Nash, Jr. on August 19, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is an African-American pop singer-songwriter, best known for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica. |  | |  Elbow - Elbow return in March with their fourth solo album, ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’. Recorded by the band at their own facility within Salford’s Blueprint Studios, The Elbow Room, and produced by keyboard player, Craig Potter, the album is the follow up to 2005’s universally acclaimed ‘Leaders of the Free World’. The album also sees the band start a new relationship with Fiction Records. |
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 Richard X - Richard X originally appeared on the radar in 2001 under his "Girls On Top" alias, one of the originators of what became known as the "Mash Up" scene. He reproduced one of his Girls On Top creations for the Sugababes, "Freak Like Me", which went on to be a number one UK hit. | | |  Hot Chip - The music making partnership of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Martin came into existence in gradual stages, and has culminated in their third album ‘Made In The Dark’ the follow up to the gold selling, Mercury Music Prize nominated album ‘The Warning’. |
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 Patti Smith - Patti Smith, born in Chicago in 1946, the oldest of four siblings, was raised in South Jersey. From an early age she gravitated toward the arts and human rights issues. She studied at Glassboro State Teachers College and migrated to New York City in 1967. She teamed up with art student Robert Mapplethorpe and the two encouraged each other’s work process. Both of them pursuing painting and drawing and she poetry. | | |  Magic Numbers - A band takes the stage and, right there, sets out a new template for pop. It doesn't happen often and life rarely gets much better. By way of Trinidad, via New York--with the soup of influences that journey infers--the Magic Numbers have melodies, charisma, and songs that come on all lazy and mellow, then get inside and burn you. |
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 Vula Malinga - Vula Malinga hails from Hackney East London but is an American by birth to South African parents. Coming from a musical background her Father being a musician played with the likes of “SisterSledge “and “Barry White”. Vula recalls “music was always playing in the house.” Having raided her Dads music collection before she could barely walk Vula found herself singing along to the likes of E.W.F., Whitney Houston, George Benson, and others to numerous to mention. Thus began the love affair with music, in which she likens unto a Husband and her songs her Children. | | |  Terry Ronald - Terry Ronald’s soulful, and somewhat and rogynous, voice secured this South London boy a recording contract with MCA records in 1991. The label promptly set him up in a glamorous apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and he began recording his self-penned album with some sizeable orchestras and a few legendary musicians (Roy Ayres, The Brecker brothers, Bernard Purdy & Cornell Dupree). |
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 Johnny Douglas - Johnny Douglas’s discography speaks for itself – he’s a talented writer/producer/remixer who has worked with the finest artists to produce some of the world’s coolest tracks. Johnny’s writing/production credits include George Michael’s ‘Amazing’, ‘Fast Love’, ‘Outside’ ,‘Spinning The Wheel’, and Kylie’s ‘Red Blooded Woman’ and ‘Chocolate’ singles. Additionally he has a track, ‘In The Rain’ on the latest Estelle album, ‘Shine’. | | |  Ivan Mathias - Ivan has written and produced songs recorded by and featuring artists such as: outkast,timbaland, jay-z, lil' kim, sean paul, angie stone, blu cantrell, lauren hill, nelly, curtis mayfield, en vogue, pink, toni braxton, swv, changing faces, silk, marques houston/immature and chico debarge to name a few. |
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 IRVING BERLIN - With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalogue that boasted over 1000 songs, Irving Berlin epitomized Jerome Kern's famous maxim that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music." | | |  Cee-Lo Green - One of the most enigmatic and innovative artists in pop music today, Cee-Lo Green refuses to be defined. He’s a singer, a rapper, a songwriter, a producer, a champion of creative freedom. |
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 Eric Clapton - What makes Clapton unique? Rather than simply replicate the blues riffs he'd heard on record, Clapton incorporated the emotion of the original performances into his own style of playing. | | |  Goldfrapp - Alison and Will met in 1999, united by a love of the avant-garde, Add N To (X) and Scott Walker. They swapped tapes and books and letters, pushing boundaries and testing each other a little, to see if their tastes were strong enough to hold their combined weight. |
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 Mich Hansen - Cutfather, the successful producer, songwriter and remixer has had 7 number one singles and 37 top ten singles in the UK and 4 top 10 singles in the US. | | |  George Michael - George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963 in North London, and it was in his childhood that he met his future Wham! partner, Andrew Ridgeley. |
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 Roger Waters - Roger Waters’ achievements as a songwriter and live performer, which have been many and consistently substantial, have spanned over four decades. | | |  MÚM - Since their foundation in 1998, múm have forged a sublimely bright, warm and rich take on electronica, imprinting it with their own unique sound and character. |
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 Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis Cocker has been making music for two-thirds of his life. Two dozen of these years (1978 – 2002) were spent in Pulp, a group with whom he enjoyed most of the experiences you can have as the singer in a band. | | |  Sammy Cahn - Legends aren't made, they are born; and the legendary Sammy Cahn's songs have become the musical backdrops to people's lives around the world. |
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 Sheryl Crow - I was raised in a very proper Southern family that taught me it was impolite to talk about myself, so I never wrote about my own life. | | |  George and Ira Gershwin - The music of George and Ira Gershwin has long been a part of the American consciousness. Even the mention of the name "Gershwin" brings to mind the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s |
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 Chad Kroeger - Nickelback have found a home among millions of fans around the globe through their music, and for the band and their fans, the road continues on. | | |  Madonna - Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie is an American pop singer-songwriter, musician, dancer, record producer, film producer, actress and author. She has been nicknamed the "Material Girl" and "Queen Of Pop" by the media. |
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 Johnny Mercer - It is almost impossible to get through an entire day without hearing at least one Johnny Mercer song on records, tapes, or CD's, on the radio or television, in movie houses, theaters, or cabarets all over the world. | | |  Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) - Although their commercial success is unquestionable, Led Zeppelin are now rightly recognized as one of the most influential bands of the rock era and their catalogue continues to provide inspiration to successive generations of musicians. |
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 Stephen Sondheim - Stephen Sondheim has been writing for the American Musical Theatre for the past four decades. His breakthrough musical Company revolutionized the art form. | | |  Harry Warren - Harry's music made so many people famous, so the question is, why isn't he a household name like his contemporaries Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, and Gershwin? The answer, no one really knows. |
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 Andre Romell Young - Not many producers, in the arena of hip-hop or otherwise, can boldly state that their sonic experiments twice (first with N.W.A, later with The Chronic) transformed the musical landscape. | | |
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