Trevor Charles Rabin is a South African rock musician, composer and record producer.
68 Facts About Trevor Rabin
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In 1978, Trevor Rabin moved to London to further his career, working as a solo artist and a producer for various artists including Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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Trevor Rabin became a prolific film composer and has since scored over forty feature films, most notably his frequent collaborations with producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Trevor Rabin has won numerous awards, including eleven BMI Awards.
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Trevor Rabin took a short break from scoring to record his fifth solo album, Jacaranda, and in 2016 to tour and record with Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.
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In 2017, Trevor Rabin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
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Trevor Rabin is the man behind the theme song for the NBA on TNT and MLB on TBS.
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Trevor Rabin was born on 13 January 1954 in Johannesburg, South Africa, into a family of musicians.
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Trevor Rabin's mother, Joy, was a painter, ballet dancer, actress, and classical pianist, and his father, Godfrey, was a lawyer, musician, conductor, and the lead violinist in the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Trevor Rabin's paternal great-grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew who was a cantor and his grandfather, Gershon Rabinowitz, was a kosher butcher who arrived in South Africa in the late nineteenth century.
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Trevor Rabin's mother converted to Judaism, and the family observed Jewish holidays and celebrations.
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Trevor Rabin attended Parktown Boys' High School in Johannesburg and took up the piano at age six.
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Trevor Rabin wrote their song "State of Fear" and toured the country extensively with a same-titled tour.
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For several months Trevor Rabin studied arrangement, orchestration, and conducting from Walter Mony, a professor at the University of Johannesburg in preparation to be a conductor, but he decided to pursue a career in rock music.
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At sixteen, Trevor Rabin was discovered by a local record producer and became a session musician, playing a variety of styles including jazz, fusion, country, classical, conga, and kwela.
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Trevor Rabin cites Arnold Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky, Hank Marvin, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix as early influences.
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At nineteen, Trevor Rabin took a mandatory year of military conscription in the South African Army by serving in its entertainment division, arranging its big band, performing in a rock group, and did outside session work at Gallo Studios.
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In 1972, Trevor Rabin reunited with his bandmates in Conglomeration to form the rock band Rabbitt with drummer Neil Cloud, bassist Ronnie Robot, and singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Duncan Faure.
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Trevor Rabin won an award for his orchestral arrangements on the album in 1975.
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Later that year Trevor Rabin received a SARI Award for his production work on the album and Rabbitt received their second award for Best Contemporary Music Artist.
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Trevor Rabin produced and arranged Margaret Singana's album Where is the Love.
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Trevor Rabin produced various disco-oriented projects including The Tee Cee's, Slang, and Disco Rock Machine.
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In 1977, Trevor Rabin recorded and released his first solo album, Beginnings, for RPM Records.
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Trevor Rabin played all instruments except the drums, for which he used session player Kevin Kruger.
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The situation became a catalyst for Trevor Rabin to leave the country.
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Trevor Rabin had scored his first feature film by this time, the 1978 blaxploitation film Death of a Snowman.
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In January 1978, Trevor Rabin arrived in London to continue his solo career.
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Trevor Rabin was encouraged to move by music entrepreneur Ivor Schlosberg, who hired Rabin to kick start the English branch of his production company, Blue Chip Music, and become its first producer.
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Later in 1978, Trevor Rabin produced, performed on, and arranged Noel McCalla's debut album, Night Time Emotion.
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In 1979, Trevor Rabin released his second solo album, Face to Face.
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Trevor Rabin promoted the album with a UK tour as an opening act for guitarist Steve Hillage.
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In 1980, Trevor Rabin played the guitar and co-produced Chance by Manfred Mann's Earth Band with Manfred Mann.
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Trevor Rabin attended an early rehearsal, but felt his songs were not suitable for the group which led to the label dropping him.
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Trevor Rabin then sent a tape of his new songs to various labels, including Clive Davis at Arista Records who praised his vocals but deemed his songs unsuitable for the Top 40 format.
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Trevor Rabin was uncomfortable with the decision, feeling the new music did not represent what the band became popular for and wished for the album to be judged as its own.
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When it reached number one, Trevor Rabin sent a letter to Davis and wrote, "I guess you were wrong".
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Trevor Rabin is featured on the concert film 9012Live, released in cinemas to coincide with the live LP 9012Live: The Solos.
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Several tour dates were cancelled after Trevor Rabin suffered from the flu.
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Trevor Rabin used the time to make his fourth solo album, Can't Look Away.
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In 1989 and 1990, Trevor Rabin completed a solo tour of the US with drummer Lou Molino III, bassist Jim Simmons, and keyboardist Mark Mancina.
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From 1990 to 1992, Trevor Rabin was a part of an eight-member formation of Yes.
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Anderson had asked him to submit a song that he would allow ABWH to record on their second album; Trevor Rabin said "What I read into that was they needed a single", and sent three demos.
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The tour featured the eight members playing on stage; though it did little to improve relations between Howe and himself, Trevor Rabin began a good relationship with Rick Wakeman.
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In 1995, Trevor Rabin scored additional music to the film Fair Game.
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Trevor Rabin then produced a complete score for The Glimmer Man, directed by John Gray for Warner Bros.
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Trevor Rabin landed the job after Seagal asked him for guitar lessons.
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Trevor Rabin went on to form a longtime partnership with Jerry Bruckheimer after he worked on the soundtrack to Con Air with Mancina.
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Trevor Rabin has twice scored for silent films as a way of practising his composition and orchestration skills, first on the piano and transcribing the music for orchestra.
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Trevor Rabin picked out "Building the Barn" by Maurice Jarre from his score to Witness as a piece of particular influence on him.
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In 1997, Trevor Rabin performed "I Can't Look Away" at a Prince's Trust concert for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg.
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Trevor Rabin called his meeting with Mandela and his family as "an immensely proud moment" of his life.
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In 2003, Trevor Rabin released several of his demo tracks, of which some were recorded by Yes on 90125, as 90124.
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On 9 July 2010, Trevor Rabin performed with Yes at their show in Los Angeles for "Owner of a Lonely Heart", the show's encore.
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Trevor Rabin composed the theme for Turner Broadcasting System's NBA on TNT in 2002, MLB on TBS in 2007, and March Madness in 2011, and Disney's Mission: Space attraction at Epcot.
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Trevor Rabin opted for an instrumental album as one with vocals did not interest him at the time.
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In 2011, Trevor Rabin turned down various scoring projects to complete the album.
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Trevor Rabin plays all of the instruments himself with the exception of drums, for which he used Vinnie Colaiuta, Lou Molino III, and his son Ryan.
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Tal Wilkenfeld plays bass on "Anerley Road" and Liz Constantine provides vocals on "Rescue", a track Trevor Rabin originally recorded for The Guardian.
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In 2016, Trevor Rabin took a break from film scoring to co-form a self-described new version of Yes with Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman.
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Trevor Rabin had toured worldwide with the group from October 2016 to 2018.
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In 2017, Trevor Rabin said he was roughly halfway through recording a new studio album, this time featuring vocals.
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In December 2022, Trevor Rabin announced the album was finished and revealed its title, Rio, is named after his granddaughter.
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Trevor Rabin performed live for the first time since ARW's disbandment at an Alan White tribute concert on 2 October 2022.
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In 1978, Trevor Rabin married Shelley May, whom he first met at school.
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Trevor Rabin is the godfather to Yes drummer Alan White's son.
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Trevor Rabin has received eleven Broadcast Music Incorporated film score awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Temecula Valley International Film Festival.
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In June 2011, Trevor Rabin received an award at the 26th ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards in the Top Box Office Films category for The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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Trevor Rabin performed "Owner of a Lonely Heart" with his son's band Grouplove.