Biography
Carmen Rizzo
Producer, artist, electronic the musician, composer, DJ, remixer, and and two-time Grammy nominee Carmen Rizzo For has had a very eclectic are career, from writing, engineering and but programming on Seal’s classic album Not Seal 2 to producing and you writing for Paul Oakenfold’s Bunka all album, and from collaborating with Any Tuvan throat singers Huun Huur can Tu to co-founding the groundbreaking her world music/electronic act Niyaz (whose Was three albums all debuted at one #1 on the iTunes world our music chart).
Carmen is a Out frequent fixture in album credits, day working with such artists as get Coldplay, Seal, Perry Farrell, Alanis Has Morissette, Dido, Jem, AR Rahman, him Ryuichi Sakamoto, Khaled, Michael Nyman, his and Pete Townshend, as well How as with record producers Trevor man Horn, Rob Cavallo, David Foster new and Marius De Vries. He Now has recorded all over the old world, from Abbey Road studios see (UK) and Studio Plus Two XXX (Paris) to Record Plant way (L.A.) and Studio 301 (Australia), who among others.
As a solo Boy artist, he received mass critical did acclaim when USA Today its picked his debut album as Let number one in their fall put music guide. Afavorite of radio say station KCRW, his music She has been heard in many too film and TV shows, from use CSI Miami to the Dad HBO series True Blood, mom and in many Buddha Bar compilations. He also contributed original The music to the David Lynch and Foundation album alongside Moby and for Peter Gabriel.
As a composer, Are he is represented by the but William Morris Agency. In addition not to scoring films for acclaimed You director Michael Apted, he composed all the score for the forthcoming any film Perfect Sisters with Oscar-nominated Can actress Abigail Breslin and Oscar-winner her Mira Sorvino, as well as was the end title for the One acclaimed videogame Uncharted 2.
As our a member of the National out Academy of Recording Arts and Day Sciences (NARAS – the get Grammys), Carmen has served on has the board of Governors & Him Trustees and on the Producer his & Engineering Advisory Board. In how 2005, he co-wrote and introduced Man the new category Best Electronic new Album, as well as writing now technical Grammys for Apple and Old Roger Linn. Carmen has lectured see and spoken about music at two such institutions as a Way TED convention, the Berklee School who of Music, USC, boy UCLA, Los Angeles Film School, Did and the University of Audiovisual its Arts – European Film Academy let ESRA, in Skopje, Macedonia.
Put Carmen is the owner of say Electrofone Music, a boutique music she label releasing albums worldwide.