We are delighted to feature Robert Shahnazarian, Jr, in an exclusive video interview with Claris of StudioExpresso.
Robert Shahnazarian began his career in the music in the early '90's as an intern at world famous Capitol Records. After graduating from University Robert landed his first job in the legal department at Sony Music and on the weekends at KCRW. Later he found work with an A&R executive at Columbia and was charged with looking after recording budgets, demo submissions and recording schedules.
In 1997 Robert designed an in-house studio in the A&R department at Columbia Records taking care of pre and post production work with artists on their demos, overdubs, radio spots, mixes and edits. In 2003, Robert moved into the space formerly occupied by Sony Studios and began working with all of the artists on Sony's labels. He also engineers and mixes exclusive recordings for Sony Connect's "Live from the Connect Living Room series". Robert pursues, develops and produces new talent and is a member of AES and NARIP, a voting member of NARAS and supports the T.J. Martell Foundation/Neil Bogart Memorial Fund. In February of 2007, Robert parted ways with Sony to concentrate on the success of Feudal Records and Feudal Productions.
Some of Roberts past projects include: Incubus, GLC, KillRadio, April Sixth, Cypress Hill, Amen, Triniti, Vendetta Red, Phantom Planet, Vincente Fernandez, April Sixth, Xzibit, Ana Gabriel, The Offspring, Train, Jeff Buckley, Serart, The Raveonettes, The Coral, Crazy Town, Revis, Stanley Clarke, The Ataris, Endo, Wilshire, J-Lo, A Static Lullaby, Johnny Mathis, Play, Jade Anderson, Mia Doi Todd, Stereomud, Psychedelic Furs, Evan and Jaron, System Of A Down, Pete Yorn, Campfire Girls, P.J. Olsson, Liars Inc., Iron Maiden, Wyclef Jean, Djavan, Bow Wow, Aerosmith, Jodi Ann Paterson (Playboy Playmate of the Year 2000), Marketa Janska (Playboy Playmate July 2003), CC Deville and Wheatus to name a few.
In addition to producing sessions for Sony's online music store, he heads his own record label (feudalrecords.com) and production company, Feudal Productions.
We are delighted to feature Robert Shahnazarian, Jr in this video interview. Visit Robert's website for much more information Feudal Productions.
Special thanks to Johnny Jaskot of Babblefish.com who produced and edited this feature and to Claris of Studio Expresso.com for taking the time out to be interviewer and for the picture!