Robert Alan Ezrin was born on March 25,1949 and is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Andrea Bocelli and Phish.
35 Facts About Bob Ezrin
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On 29 December 2022, Bob Ezrin was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, the second-highest civilian honour in Canada.
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Bob Ezrin was born in Toronto, Ontario, on March 25,1949.
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Bob Ezrin resided in the Forest Hill area of Toronto.
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Bob Ezrin has worked on recordings with numerous major artists, including Phish, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Balloonatic, Deep Purple, Lou Reed, The Kings, Hanoi Rocks, Taylor Swift, Peter Gabriel, Bonham, K'naan, 2Cellos, Kristin Chenoweth, Rod Stewart, Nine Inch Nails, The Jayhawks, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Darkness, Jane's Addiction, Dr John, Nils Lofgren, Berlin, Kansas, Julian Lennon, Joe Bonamassa and Deftones, among many others.
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Bob Ezrin recorded the very first demos for Toronto band Max Webster.
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Bob Ezrin has been described by Alice Cooper as "our George Martin".
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In 1975, Cooper released the Bob Ezrin-produced album, Welcome To My Nightmare.
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Bob Ezrin worked with Cooper not just as a producer, but as a co-writer, arranger, and musician.
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Bob Ezrin has worked with Pink Floyd on a number of occasions, co-producing the albums, The Wall, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell.
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Bob Ezrin produced the 1988 Kansas album In the Spirit of Things, and received a writing credit for the song "Ghosts" and three other songs.
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In May 2009, Bob Ezrin co-produced The Clearwater Concert at Madison Square Garden, celebrating the 90th birthday of musician and activist, Pete Seeger.
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Since 2010, Bob Ezrin has co-produced Peter Gabriel's album, Scratch My Back; co-produced The House Rules, by Christian Kane; and produced singles for K'naan, the Canadian Tenors, and young pop sensation, Fefe Dobson, for her album, Joy.
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Bob Ezrin reunited with Cooper, working on Cooper's Welcome 2 My Nightmare, on the corresponding live show, and numerous other related projects.
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In 2012, Bob Ezrin remixed the KISS 1976 Double-Platinum album, Destroyer.
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Bob Ezrin worked with the band Phish on their 2014 release, Fuego.
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Bob Ezrin produced a live and television extravaganza to reopen the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, US, starring Green Day and U2.
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Bob Ezrin worked on an album and live opera with L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio in Rome, Italy.
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In 1993, Bob Ezrin co-founded a computer software company called 7th Level, which developed and published educational and entertainment CD-ROMs, including a series of Monty Python games.
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In 1999, Bob Ezrin cofounded Enigma Digital, an internet radio provider, that was eventually sold to Clear Channel; Bob Ezrin was later appointed vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive.
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Bob Ezrin was Chairman of Live Nation Artists Recordings in 2007 and the first half of 2008.
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Bob Ezrin is co-founder and vice chairman of Wow Unlimited Media.
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Bob Ezrin stated that his goal was to provide new engineers and producers with the hands-on teaching experience that he believed was no longer available from traditional recording studios.
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Bob Ezrin is a board member of the Mr Holland's Opus Foundation, a national initiative that supports music in US schools by donating musical instruments to under-funded music programs.
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Bob Ezrin is an Advisory Committee member of MusiCounts, the musical education initiative of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, that provides instruments to Canadian school music programs.
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Bob Ezrin is co-founder, with U2's The Edge, of Music Rising, an initiative to preserve the musical culture of the Gulf coast region following the damage caused by the hurricanes and flooding of 2005.
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On February 18,2010, Bob Ezrin helped with the mobilization of the Young Artists for Haiti group.
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The song was reworked by Bob Ezrin to include specific lyrics for Haiti, with proceeds disseminated to Free the Children, War Child Canada, and World Vision Canada.
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Bob Ezrin is a Chairman Emeritus of the Los Angeles Mentoring Partnership and a past Trustee and Governor of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Bob Ezrin is a member of the Board of the Canadian Journalism Foundation, which promotes, celebrates and facilitates excellence in journalism.
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In 1982, Bob Ezrin briefly appeared as the host of Enterprise, a City-TV panel show that replaced Dr Morton Shulman's The Shulman File; he has been a frequent interviewee for documentary films and television.
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Bob Ezrin has created new theatrical, television, and live events with RadicalMedia, based in New York, including Jay-Z's feature film, Fade to Black.
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In 2012, Bob Ezrin appeared in Artifact, a documentary film about the modern music business focused on the legal battle between Thirty Seconds to Mars and record label EMI.
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Bob Ezrin was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in April 2004 and the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in March 2006.
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Bob Ezrin was honoured in 2013 by The Royal Conservatory of Music, being named an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Conservatory.