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William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956) is an English musician, composer and record producer. In the early 1980s, he formed synthpop act Torch Song with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. In 1987 he released the first of his Strange Cargo album series, containing ambient music.
By the 1990s and 2000s, Orbit had started to work with bigger name artists, producing songs on Ray of Light and Music by Madonna, 13 and Think Tank by Blur and Saints and Sinners by All Saints. His work with Madonna led him to win three Grammys. He worked again with Madonna on her 2012 album MDNA producing six songs.
William Orbit was born William Wainwright in London's East End in 1956. His mother, of Italian and Swedish descent, and his father, from Yorkshire, were both schoolteachers.
He did not have a formal education, having left school at 15 and being entirely self-taught. Aged 16, squatting in Norwich and working as a strawberry picker in the summer, he started to devote himself to guitar playing. He then lived in squats around Europe and worked at various jobs including hotel kitchen worker, motorbike messenger, at a ladies shoes factory, as an accounts clerk (in the days before computers), a night shift worker at the old Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam and junior draftsman at a North Sea oil rig design company.
William Orbit, geboren als William Mark Wainwright (Shoreditch, Hackney, 15 december 1956) is een Britse artiest, componist en producer met betrekking tot ambient, dance en pop. Als artiest is Orbit het meest bekend vanwege zijn bewerking van Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings, dat een grote hit werd in de mix van Ferry Corsten. Als producer en componist werkte hij met grote namen als Madonna (hij schreef grote delen van haar albums Ray of Light en Music), Blur, Oleta Adams en All Saints.
"Spiral" is an ambient rock song mastered by William Orbit for his ninth studio album "Hello Waveforms". It is one of only four songs to be containing vocals. Sugababes were featured as additional vocalists.
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My favourite classical crossover tune ever!!
What to say? A great remix of a classic.... (Which MIGHT be better than the original......!) For more artist info etc please visit: https://www.facebook.com/nicktripswitch http://www.mixcloud.com/nicktripswitch https://soundcloud.com/tripswitch And his record label Section Records: https://www.facebook.com/sectionrecords
There was no video for this amazing song, so I thought I'd do one so it can be tied into iLike. Various lighthouse images, only the last one is actually of the lighthouse at Montok Point.
William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956) is an English musician, composer and record producer. In the early 1980s, he formed synthpop act Torch Song with Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert. In 1987 he released the first of his Strange Cargo album series, containing ambient music.
By the 1990s and 2000s, Orbit had started to work with bigger name artists, producing songs on Ray of Light and Music by Madonna, 13 and Think Tank by Blur and Saints and Sinners by All Saints. His work with Madonna led him to win three Grammys. He worked again with Madonna on her 2012 album MDNA producing six songs.
William Orbit was born William Wainwright in London's East End in 1956. His mother, of Italian and Swedish descent, and his father, from Yorkshire, were both schoolteachers.
He did not have a formal education, having left school at 15 and being entirely self-taught. Aged 16, squatting in Norwich and working as a strawberry picker in the summer, he started to devote himself to guitar playing. He then lived in squats around Europe and worked at various jobs including hotel kitchen worker, motorbike messenger, at a ladies shoes factory, as an accounts clerk (in the days before computers), a night shift worker at the old Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam and junior draftsman at a North Sea oil rig design company.