1. Roxanne Seeman has written songs for Chinese artists including Jacky Cheung, Yang Kun, Chen Linong, Super Vocal, Rainie Yang and productions by Zhang Yadong and Gao Xiaosong.
27 Facts About Roxanne Seeman
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Roxanne Seeman is a producer of the Broadway shows To Kill a Mockingbird and The Waverly Gallery.
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Roxanne Seeman was born in New York to Jewish parents, Murray Roxanne Seeman, a lawyer and real estate developer, and his wife, Lee.
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Thirty-three relatives of the Roxanne Seeman family were killed in the Holocaust.
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Roxanne Seeman took up violin at the Saddle Rock Elementary School and picked up guitar at 16.
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Roxanne Seeman attended Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with the intention of pursuing a career in art.
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At Carnegie-Mellon, Roxanne Seeman was on the School Activities Board, booking bands to perform on campus.
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Roxanne Seeman studied Chinese, Japanese and Indian literature, art, and took a class on Chinese music from Professor Chou Wen-Chung.
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Roxanne Seeman spent nights in New York City jazz clubs while working as a temporary secretary at Atlantic Records and Warner Communications.
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Roxanne Seeman relocated to Los Angeles in 1977 for a position at ABC Records, which was sold the next year to MCA Records.
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Roxanne Seeman began writing originals with David Lasley and others co-writers, producing 24-track recordings at ABC Recording Studios with David Benoit, Bobby Watson, Eduardo del Barrio, David Garibaldi, Doug Rodrigues, Terry Reid, Hubert Laws, Sylvia St James, Arnold McCuller and ABC staff recording engineers Al Schmitt, Jr.
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Roxanne Seeman met Gerry Brown, a young recording engineer and tape librarian at ABC.
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Roxanne Seeman had mixed one of her songs and was listening so enthusiastically, she told him he could mix all of her songs.
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In 1982, Roxanne Seeman signed an exclusive writer agreement with Intersong Music, PolyGram Publishing.
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Roxanne Seeman has maintained her own publishing company, Noa Noa Music, named after the Tahitian words "noa noa" she used in her lyrics for "Tahiti Hut".
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Roxanne Seeman held the position of Executive Assistant to Scott Rudin, President of Production for 20th Century Fox in the mid-1980s.
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Roxanne Seeman wrote the English lyrics "Come Back To Me" for "Gel Ey Seher", a poem by Fikret Goja set to music by Polad Bulbuloglu.
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In 2002, Roxanne Seeman wrote English lyrics for Alejandro Sanz' Quisiera Ser onstage Grammy duet with Destiny's Child, performed in Spanish and English, with Beyonce singing Roxanne Seeman's English lyrics in the bridge.
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For Sarah Brightman, Roxanne Seeman wrote "Harem", original English lyrics for "Cancao do Mar", a Portuguese fado made famous by Amalia Rodrigues.
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In early 2009, Roxanne Seeman began writing in LA for Jacky Cheung, China's "God of Songs", in collaboration with Andrew Tuason, producer, and Cheung, both in Hong Kong.
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The first song, "Everyday Is Christmas", Roxanne Seeman co-wrote with Philipp Steinke.
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Roxanne Seeman continued to write songs for Cheung in the new "Canto-jazz" style, a phrase Cheung coined to describe the music of his Private Corner album.
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Roxanne Seeman continued to Shanghai, then Beijing, where she met with Ai Dai, and on to Tokyo.
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In 1996, Roxanne Seeman received Special Recognition for Musical Contribution, Daytime Drama Guiding Light, for her work with, and the Emmy awarded to, music director, Jonathan Firstenberg.
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Roxanne Seeman co-wrote "Hold On To The Good Things" for Stuart Little 2, recorded by Grammy-winning artist Shawn Colvin.
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From William Ross' theme for The Young Black Stallion, Roxanne Seeman and Gavin Greenaway developed and produced the song "Born To Ride" sung by Biana Tamimi, the 11-year-old actress from the film, for the DVD release December 2004.
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Roxanne Seeman's songs appeared in the 2012 Nickelodeon television series Hollywood Heights.