Charlie
Rapino - Record producer
Charlie
Rapino started in the music industry when as a freshly
made lawyer, he started promoting gigs by bringing people
like Iggy Pop, Patti Smith etc to a radical Italian
university crowd.
After
working at the notorious Record Plant NYC and breathing
the house scene, he formed the Rapino Brothers, with
Marco Rapino, moved to London in 1990 and never looked
back. There they took the decade by storm, producing
and recording records. After their first hit with Kym
Mazelle's Love Me The Right Way, they masterminded Take
That's first hit and produced, mixed and fixed many
major pop acts during the 1990s, from Kylie to Primal
Scream.
In
1997, Charlie was the "on air" producer for
BBC's "Get Your Act Together", followed by
"Full Frontal" on Channel 4. In 1999, Charlie
became A&R Director for Sony Music International,
where he remained until 2004.
His
energy doesn't diminish - currently he divides his time
between management consultantcy for Ennio Morricone,
consultancy for Rolling Stone magazine, soundtrack work
and production consultantcy for movies and games, most
recently fixing Iggy Pop to do the voice-overs on the
Driver 3 video game. Charlie continues to sign and manage
acts via his joint venture label with Sony, Stud Records.
Contact
Charlie via email.
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Mark
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