Rupert Hine

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Rupert’s career as a producer spans more than 30 years and 120 albums. His wide-ranging musical perspective and accomplishments, both commercial and eclectic, made him the obvious choice to write the foreword for the definitive reference work on music producers, Billboard’s 'The Encyclopedia Of Record Producers'. The encyclopedia itself states: "Few producers have worked with as wide a stylistic range of gold and platinum-selling artists as Hine including Tina Turner, The Fixx, Howard Jones, Chris de Burgh, Rush, Bob Geldof, Stevie Nicks, Thomson Twins, The Waterboys, Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik”. It goes on to talk of Rupert’s significant work under the commercial radar that includes The Velvet Underground’s Nico, supermodel Milla Jovovich and techno-pioneers Underworld, concluding with: “and, of course, Hine himself (6 albums under his own name, 3 under the alias Thinkman plus 2 with his 70s band Quantum Jump”. As a songwriter, Rupert’s skills have reached beyond his own albums. Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Wilson-Phillips and Dusty Springfield are amongst the million-selling artists who have recorded his songs. As a composer and musician he has both underscored movies and contributed songs in films that range from Skolomovski’s “The Shout” through cult classic “Better Off Dead” to James Bond’s “Goldeneye.” Rupert has also directed many video-clips for the artists he has produced. As an environmentalist, Rupert’s ground-breaking project in 1990 for the BBC with Kevin Godley, “One World, One Voice”, assembled 300 musicians worldwide to create the first global composition for mankind. In the form of a musical chain-letter it travelled the world with Hine improvising its form on the fly. The grand spectacle was ultimately seen by more than 650,000,000 people in 26 countries the same night! Rupert’s collaborators included Peter Gabriel, Sting, Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde, Dave Stewart, Milton Nascimento, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Kodo Drummers, Geoffrey Oryema. Salif Keita and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. As a leader rather than a follower in technology, Rupert pioneered electronic musical instrument interfaces with the fledgling MIDI. Invited by Apple, in the 90‘s, to help demonstrate the powers of their ground-breaking software engines to the music-world’s creative thinkers, Rupert has consistently championed the incorporation of the digital environment into art and creativity. He is a founder member of the Music Producers Guild and the International MIDI Association. He is also a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the U.S. Rupert’s unique musical and artistic diversity has made him an authority on creative communication and one of the most engaging and inspirational speakers of the moment. Courtesy of www.krugercowne.com. This profile is endorsed by Rupert Hine and maintained by Anette Hallstrom, Denmark

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April 18, 2006

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