1. Martyn Ware was born on 19 May 1956 and is an English musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and music programmer.
13 Facts About Martyn Ware
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Martyn Ware has worked as a record producer, notably helping to revitalise Tina Turner's career in 1983 with her cover of "Let's Stay Together", launching Sananda Maitreya's career by co-producing his solo debut, Introducing the Hardline According to.
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Martyn Ware is noted for work in surround sound technology and, more recently, for creation of sound installations.
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Martyn Ware has collaborated with Vince Clarke on two music projects; the Pretentious album, and Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle.
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Martyn Ware curated and produced 'Everything You Can Imagine Is Real' for the UK's National Portrait Gallery in 2017, to coincide with their Picasso Portraits exhibition.
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Martyn Ware arranged for the gallery to become an artists' colony featuring a wild cross-pollination of ideas, music, poetry, performance, art, film and dance.
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In September 2024, Martyn Ware said Rockstar Games had asked to license "Temptation" for its upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto VI for per writer; Martyn Ware countered with an offer for or "a reasonable royalty" but said Rockstar declined.
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Martyn Ware was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield in 2022.
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Martyn Ware speaks regularly on music policy from the perspective of a creative person.
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Martyn Ware's speaking engagements have included: "The future of copyright in Europe" at the British Library on 11 February 2011 for Copyright for Creativity; "The needs of creators, archivists, and educators in transforming creative works" at the European Parliament in Brussels on 14 June 2011; and two outreach events in Brussels in May 2012 in the Library of the European Parliament.
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Martyn Ware was a keynote speaker at the Silicon Dreams festival in Leicestershire on 6 July 2013, where he performed with Heaven 17.
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Martyn Ware is married to Landsley and has two children, Elena and Gabriel.
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In November 2019, along with 34 other musicians, Martyn Ware signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 UK general election with a call to end austerity.