A Letter to You | 23-02

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Multi-instrumentalist maestro Michele Chiavarini’s career as a songwriter, arranger, composer, producer, remixer, sound designer and session musician, spans over 25 years. He has been involved with music for recording artists, ranging from Pop to Dance, Soul/RnB, Hip-Hop to Jazz, and Orchestral to World. He has also written extensively for film, television and advertising.

In dance music, he is best known for his work as a keyboardist and programmer on hundreds of productions by some of the top DJs and dance acts in the world including Dave Lee (a.k.a. Joey Negro), Seamus Haji, Mark Knight, Luciana Caporaso, Diane Charlemagne, Booty Luv, Robert Owens, Danny Rampling, ATFC, Booker T, Victor Simonelli, DJ Disciple, Allister Whitehead, Bobby & Steve and Warren Clarke.

Michele is also known for his Latin-influenced productions as Nova Fronteira. In 2003 he wrote and produced The Full Fronteira LP, released on Z Records, to critical acclaim. In 2012 the single Everybody Loves The Sunshine was also released on Seamus Haji’s Big Love and reached number 1 on Traxsource. To celebrate the 2016 Rio summer Olympics a new EP titled Rhodes To Rio was released.Since 2013, Michele has been working with DJ Spen and Thomas Davis’ Quantize Recordings, releasing many records and scoring several #1 singles on Traxsource, among which 1 World, the 2014 summer hit Let Me See You (Clap Your Hands) and this year’s Doing Things My Way. On the same label, the jazz influenced The Music Tells Me was also released to great acclaim (number one on Traxsource’s Soulful House Chart). Michele has also written and produced several tracks for Sheila Ford’s very popular album “Here You Are” on Quantize and for Tracy Hamlin’s album “No Limits” on Expansion Records.

A masterful programmer and skillful engineer, he is equally familiar with electronic, acoustic and orchestral musical environments. Classically trained in piano, guitar, composition, orchestration and conducting, he is also an accomplished bassist, violinist, trumpet player and vibraphone player.Michele has recorded for Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Diana Ross, Luciano Pavarotti, A. R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire), Simply Red, Gloria Gaynor, Ray Charles, Philip Bailey, Seal, Lemar, Soul II Soul, Gabrielle and many more.

He regularly scores soundtracks for the Discovery Channel, History Channel, CNN and other broadcasters, and has created music for many advertising commercials including Toyota (100 Mile Journey), ENEL Energia (Passages Of Light), Evian, Heineken, Gordon’s Gin, P&O, 555, Oral B, Tic Tac & Amigos Tequila (TV bumper for ITV comedy series ‘Plebs’).Recent screen credits include Quest for Gold (Discovery), The Wars of The Zulu (CNN), How To Survive A Disaster Movie (Channel 5), Benidorm ER 2 (Channel 5), Escoffier (Channel 5), Dying For Clear Skin (BBC3), plus over 50 syncs for BBC1 (The One Show, Strictly Dance Fever etc), BBC2, BBC3, ITV 1 (X Factor etc), ITV 2, Channel 4 (Big Brother, Place In The Sun etc), Channel 5, Discovery, Sky One, ESPN, CBBC, UKTV Food, etc. His cheeky take on Brit girl groups resulted in the creation of naughty twosome Daphne & Celeste (Universal), much loved by Radio 1 and the New Music Express for its irreverent style. With Michele at the production helm, the group scored 2 UK Top 10 singles and 1 UK Top 20 album.

Michele runs his own label SPRY Records.