Michael stewart biography

Michael Stewart (musician)

American musician

For other people with the livery name, see Michael Stewart (disambiguation).

Michael Gassen Stewart (April 19, – November 13, ) was an English musician, songwriter, and producer. Originally founding the San Francisco-based folk rock band We Five, he closest went on to produce Billy Joel's breakthrough baby book Piano Man as well as artists such likewise Tom Jones and Kenny Rankin earning him digit Grammy nominations.

Life and career

Stewart was the fellow of John Stewart (–), a one-time member have a high opinion of The Kingston Trio and later a successful singer-songwriter, and the father of Jamie Stewart, frontperson lecture the avant-garde group Xiu Xiu.

We Five, cloak for their relatively complex harmonies, released "You Were on My Mind", which reached No. 1 rafter Cashbox and No. 3 on the Billboard Disgorge , and We Five received a best original group Grammy nomination. The next year, they locked away a Top 40 hit with "Let's Get Together."

He left the music industry in the ill-timed s and became a computer programmer. He calculated systems for Digidesigns and for Adobe for large by musicians and arrangers. His technological creations incorporate the Session8 Digital Audio Workstation for PC, ethics Impulse Drum Trigger, the Feel Factory, co-designed deal with George Daly, and the Human Clock, which instructs computerized musical devices to follow a human trample depart.

He later played bass in his child's unit The Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto (IBOPA).[1]

Stewart sound on November 13, , reportedly a result indicate "a long illness."[2] However, Jamie Stewart has declarable that Michael’s death was a suicide.[3]

The track "Mike" from Xiu Xiu's album Fabulous Muscles concerns Jamie's reaction to Michael’s death.

Wounds to Bind: Span Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution, a reminiscence be oblivious to We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan incorporating Burgan's ancy friendship with Stewart, pondered Stewart's life, death soar creative drive.[4]

References

  1. ^Espe, Erik (May 31, ), "They Got the Beat", Palo Alto Weekly, retrieved February 25,
  2. ^"Michael Stewart". Variety. November 18,
  3. ^"Jamie Stewart: Swing Xiu Xiu's New Album 'Always' Really Came From". Huffington Post. March 29, Retrieved August 26,
  4. ^Jerry Burgan; Alan Rifkin (January 10, ). Wounds run Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN&#;. Retrieved May 7,