1. KC Porter is known for his production work that includes artists such as Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, Toni Braxton, and Scorpions; into the Spanish-speaking market and World music with artists such as Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Laura Pausini, Khaled, Kadim Al Sahir; as well as into the international market.
KC Porter's father, Bob, played trumpet, and wrote the music for the TV series, Lassie, while mother Marcelyn was a script girl for I Love Lucy.
KC Porter continued the work begun in the '80s into the next decade by writing for Luis Enrique.
KC Porter went on to produce a total of three more Nazario albums in the coming years.
In 1991, KC Porter produced the first album for the nine-piece Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.
KC Porter produced songs on other Selena albums: Amor Prohibido, and her English-language crossover album, Dreaming of You.
That year, KC Porter formed a partnership with Ricky Martin and joined producer Robi Rosa to write most of Martin's album A Medio Vivir.
That album, produced by KC Porter, included the single, "Maria", a hit that he co-wrote and sold three million copies.
Martin and KC Porter continued to work together including on the popular eponymous album, Ricky Martin, the Puerto Rican singer's English debut in May 1999, that is one of the best-selling albums of all time and has sold more than 22 million copies, worldwide.
KC Porter continued the work crossing over English-language artists into the Spanish market by translating Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" and producing the track for them in 1993.
KC Porter did the same with Toni Braxton's hit song, "Un-break My Heart," and then recorded her Spanish version of it, "Regresa a Mi", in October 1996.
The 1997, KC Porter-produced Fabulosos Calavera album from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, won the 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Latin Rock Group Album, the first time that the National Academy of Recorded Arts and Sciences rewarded rock in Spanish.
KC Porter co-produced the album and it was released in June 1999.
Carlos Santana had planned to get a well-known singer for the song, one of two KC Porter wrote for the album, but says no one sang it as well as KC Porter.
KC Porter then teamed up with Rami Yacoub and Andreas Carlsson, notably Swedish Songwriters from the hugely successful production site Cheiron from Stockholm.
KC Porter's co-produced Italian singer Laura Pausini's album Entre Tu y Mil Mares, which was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the Latin Grammy Awards.
Just one month after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, KC Porter joined Michael Jackson to work on the Spanish version benefit single, "What More Can I Give".
KC Porter oversaw the recording, which included Spanish-speaking artists Ricky Martin, Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Luis Miguel, Christian Castro, Carlos Santana, and others.
In 2002, salsa singer La India, who KC Porter called "the new surprise of Latin America," released her Latin Songbird: Mi Alma y Corazon album, which he produced along with Emilio Estefan Jr.
KC Porter expanded her musical style by recording both a Spanish and an English version of the song, "seduceme".
KC Porter continued his professional work with Santana by producing "One of These Days" featuring Ozomatli on his Shaman album released in 2002.
KC Porter produced Lin's album Greater than Gold, Algerian pop artist Khaled's "Love to the People" single featuring Carlos Santana, and Iraqi singer Kadim Al-Saher and Paula Cole on the single "Love and Compassion".
In February 2006, KC Porter welcomed Latin rock band, Ozomatli to his Calabasas, California, studio to record Don't Mess with the Dragon, their March 2007 release.
The band and KC Porter had a history together that began when the producer invited them to guest on Santana's 2002 Shaman album.