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Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1934.
   As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods.
   In 1959 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. There he quickly gained a reputation as a sound engineer and music producer, in particular for his use of innovative technology. Among those whose music he's produced are Burt Bacharach, Laura Branigan, Karen Carpenter, Ray Charles, Chicago, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Fito Páez, Quincy Jones, B. B. King, Diane Schuur, Julian Lennon, Madonna, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Sinéad O'Connor, Luciano Pavarotti, Andre Previn, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Olivia Newton-John, Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Clay Aiken, Peter Paul and Mary, and Melissa Errico.
   Most recently, Ramone has worked with Anne Murray, who released an all-duets album in 2008 in the US, and with Shelby Lynne, whose album paying tribute to the late Dusty Springfield was released Jan. 29, 2008.
   Beginning in March, Ramone will be producing the first full-album release by Montreal teen jazz artist Nikki Yanofsky, which is due to be released to coincide with the Montreal International Jazz festival in July 2008.
   He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to President John F. Kennedy.
   Among the technical innovations he introduced at A&R are four-track recorders, optical surround sound for movies, and digital recording techniques. His studio was the first to release music commercially on compact disc; Billy Joel's 52nd Street was the first album to be broadly released on the medium.
   Ramone has been awarded honorary degrees by Five Towns College and Berklee College of Music. He is also on Berklee's Board of Trustees.
   His book, Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, written with Chuck Granata, was released on October 9, 2007.

Awards

Ramone has won nine Grammy awards:

1965 - Best Engineered Recording (non classical), for Getz/Gilberto
1970 - Best Musical Show Album for producing Promises, Promises
1976 - Album of the Year for producing Still Crazy After All These Years
1979 - Record of the Year for producing "Just the Way You Are"
1980 - Album of the Year for producing 52nd Street
1981 - Producer of the Year (non classical)
1984 - Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special, for Flashdance
1995 - Best Musical Show Album for producing Passion
2003 - Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, for producing "Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues"

He also won an Emmy Award in 1973 as sound mixer for "Duke Ellington...We Love You Madly", a tribute to Duke Ellington broadcast on CBS.
Ramone isn't related to the punk group The Ramones.

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