Craig Pruess
Encyclopedia
Craig Pruess is an American
composer
, musician
, arranger and gold & platinum record producer who has been living in Britain
since 1973. His career has covered diverse areas including: record production for international stars such as Anu Malik
, Sir Cliff Richard
, Sarah Brightman
, Sheila Walsh (whose first album, "War of Love" was produced and arranged by Craig and was nominated for a Grammy Award
in 1983); musical arrangements for Massive Attack
, Def Leppard
, Bond
; feature film soundtrack music (Bride & Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham
, What's Cooking?
, Bhaji on the Beach
); world music producing, performing (sitar
, keyboards
and African percussion) and arranging for international acts such as Massive Attack
, Katie Melua
, Manic Street Preachers
, Def Leppard
and Pascal Obispo
; television music ("Peak Practice
", Sue Lawley Show, Rich Deceiver, ZigZag Kenya, Samson Superslug) and also arranging, sitar and sound design work (for such well known composers as Danny Elfman
, Gabriel Yared
, Patrick Doyle
, Carl Davis
, John Altman
, Rachel Portman
, and George Fenton
); television and film advertising/corporate music (over 300 commercials to date); lecturing and teaching; concert performing (solo and with his own ensembles but also with Mike Oldfield
for the world premiere of "Tubular Bells II", September 1992, at the Edinburgh Castle
); sound engineering, synthesizer and computer music programming, sound design and music technology innovations.
Craig has composed the original music score for a string of major films by Gurinder Chadha's
, including her number one UK box office smash hit films, Bend It Like Beckham
" (top ten in the USA box office, number 1 in India
), and Bride & Prejudice". Craig scored her previous films, including "Bhaji on the Beach
" (1993) and "What's Cooking?
", which opened the big US Sundance Film Festival
, January 2000 and released throughout the USA in October 2000, to critical acclaim (UK release was September 2001). Gurinder Chadha's big romantic Bollywood
influenced feature film, "Bride and Prejudice", stars the big names of Aishwarya Rai
, Anupam Kher
and Martin Henderson
, released by Miramax (USA) and Pathé
(Europe) in October 2003, again was number one in the UK, India
and South Africa
, settling for number 15 for 3 weeks in the USA. Aishwarya Rai
is again the big star in Craig's further film score project, "The Mistress of Spices
", directed by Paul Mayeda Berges
, which was released in the UK and India early 2006. Craig has scored Gurinder's latest feature film, "It's a Wonderful Afterlife
", which is for a spring 2010 world-wide release.
In 2009, Craig was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the RTS Awards (Royal Television Society) for his music for the acclaimed BBC-TV drama series, "Moses Jones
". Since the series, he has teamed up with talented Ugandan musicians, Denis Mugagga and Daniel Sewagudde (formerly of DaTwinz fame in Africa), to create the group the Ganda Boys, with an album "The War of Love" released in 2009, and live shows in London. Craig is scoring the high profile BBC-TV drama series, "Five Days II", for Jan 2010.
Brazilian music featured in Craig's 2006 soundtrack: 90 minute Discovery Channel
docu-drama "Gold Diggers - The Biggest Bank Robbery in History". An edgy, fast paced expose of the 2005 massive bank robbery in Fortelesa, Brazil
, directed by British director James Erskine. Featuring energetic Brazilian rhythms and tribal percussion layers, along with a filmic, hard-hitting music score, the program itself has become part of the police investigation in Brazil
! In 2007, Craig composed the soundtrack for Turner Prize
nominated artist Zarina Bhimji's
film Waiting), which became part of the prestigious Turner Prize exhibition in Liverpool
during October 2007.
As a songwriter, Craig has penned the Christmas
No. 1 UK chart single (December 1999/January 2000), one of the double A sides ("Two Worlds
"), part of Sir Cliff Richard's
chart hit, "Millennium Prayer" (sales over one million). In November 1999, Craig was nominated to be the composer for the most successful independent television drama series in British history, "Peak Practice
", completing the very last four series (13 episodes each) for Carlton Television
until its conclusion in 2003.
In 2000, Craig contributed keyboards and sounds for composer John Altman
on the US television film, "RKO 281 - the Making of Citizen Kane
", which received 13 nominations for the Emmy Awards, winning the Emmy for best music soundtrack for 2000. Craig worked in his home studio with the director of the film, Ben Ross
, to record and perform the initial music sketches, and then also played keyboards with the orchestra for the final recordings of the soundtrack in London
.
Craig is the director/founder of the UK record label Heaven on Earth Music, and is an active Art of Living teacher for many years. He is married with four children, and has lived in Wiltshire
, UK, for many years. He is also a painter, photographer, graphic designer and poet.
(as record producer/arranger for other artists)
(as arranger for other artists)
(as musician/performer for other artists)
(as film composer - soundtrack albums released)
(as songwriter/composer for other artists)
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, arranger and gold & platinum record producer who has been living in Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
since 1973. His career has covered diverse areas including: record production for international stars such as Anu Malik
Anu Malik
Anu Malik , born Anwar Sardaar Malik, is a famous music director in the Hindi film industry. Son of veteran music director Sardar Malek, Anu Malik made his debut as a music composer in the year 1977. After a considerable period of struggle, the 90's welcomed Anu with hits like 'Phir Teri Kahani...
, Sir Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
, Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...
, Sheila Walsh (whose first album, "War of Love" was produced and arranged by Craig and was nominated for a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
in 1983); musical arrangements for Massive Attack
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...
, Def Leppard
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
, Bond
Bond (band)
Bond is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover music...
; feature film soundtrack music (Bride & Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
, What's Cooking?
What's Cooking?
What's Cooking? is a 2000 British/American comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Lainie Kazan, Maury Chaykin, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard, and Dennis Haysbert.-Plot:...
, Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach is a 1993 film by director Gurinder Chadha with a screenplay by Meera Syal.-Plot synopsis:A diverse group of British women of South Asian descent go on a day trip to the beach in Blackpool; despite their differences—the older women are more traditional and conservative,...
); world music producing, performing (sitar
Sitar
The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
, keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
and African percussion) and arranging for international acts such as Massive Attack
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be of the trip...
, Katie Melua
Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer, songwriter and musician. She moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then to England at fourteen. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003...
, Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
, Def Leppard
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...
and Pascal Obispo
Pascal Obispo
Pascal Michel Obispo is a French singer/songwriter.Pascal Obispo started singing in 1980. He got his first record deal in 1990, Le long du fleuve. With his second album, Plus que tout au monde, selling over 2 million albums, his songs became a popular success...
; television music ("Peak Practice
Peak Practice
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
", Sue Lawley Show, Rich Deceiver, ZigZag Kenya, Samson Superslug) and also arranging, sitar and sound design work (for such well known composers as Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film. Up until 1995, he was the lead singer and songwriter in the rock band Oingo Boingo, a group he formed in 1976...
, Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared is a Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella...
, Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle
Patrick Doyle is a Scottish musician and film score composer. A longtime collaborator of actor/director Kenneth Branagh, Doyle is known for his work scoring such critically acclaimed films as Henry V , Sense and Sensibility , Hamlet , and Gosford Park , as well as noteworthy blockbusters as Harry...
, Carl Davis
Carl Davis
Carl Davis CBE is an American born conductor and composer who has made his home in the UK since 1961. In 1970 he married the English actress Jean Boht....
, John Altman
John Altman (composer)
John Altman is a British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.-Biography:Altman was introduced to the music of the 1930s and 1940s at an early age by an uncle who arranged and composed music for big bands and conducted for Judy Garland, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy,...
, Rachel Portman
Rachel Portman
Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score...
, and George Fenton
George Fenton
George Fenton is a British composer best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, although he also writes music for the theatre. His real name is George Howe but he is better known by his pseudonym of George Fenton.-Selected film and television credits:Fenton has composed...
); television and film advertising/corporate music (over 300 commercials to date); lecturing and teaching; concert performing (solo and with his own ensembles but also with Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
for the world premiere of "Tubular Bells II", September 1992, at the Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear...
); sound engineering, synthesizer and computer music programming, sound design and music technology innovations.
Craig has composed the original music score for a string of major films by Gurinder Chadha's
Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha , OBE, is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach , Bend It Like Beckham , Bride and Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging...
, including her number one UK box office smash hit films, Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
" (top ten in the USA box office, number 1 in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
), and Bride & Prejudice". Craig scored her previous films, including "Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach
Bhaji on the Beach is a 1993 film by director Gurinder Chadha with a screenplay by Meera Syal.-Plot synopsis:A diverse group of British women of South Asian descent go on a day trip to the beach in Blackpool; despite their differences—the older women are more traditional and conservative,...
" (1993) and "What's Cooking?
What's Cooking?
What's Cooking? is a 2000 British/American comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Lainie Kazan, Maury Chaykin, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard, and Dennis Haysbert.-Plot:...
", which opened the big US Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, January 2000 and released throughout the USA in October 2000, to critical acclaim (UK release was September 2001). Gurinder Chadha's big romantic Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
influenced feature film, "Bride and Prejudice", stars the big names of Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...
, Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher is an Indian actor who has appeared in nearly 400 films and 100 plays. Though mainly appearing in Bollywood films, he has had roles in some films from other nations as well...
and Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor, well known to American audiences for his starring role in the ABC TV series Off the Map, while remaining known in his home country for his teenage role as Stuart Neilson in the soap opera Shortland Street.-Life and career:Henderson was born in Auckland, New...
, released by Miramax (USA) and Pathé
Pathé
Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
(Europe) in October 2003, again was number one in the UK, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, settling for number 15 for 3 weeks in the USA. Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...
is again the big star in Craig's further film score project, "The Mistress of Spices
Mistress of Spices
The Mistress of Spices, , set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.-Plot summary:...
", directed by Paul Mayeda Berges
Paul Mayeda Berges
Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter and director.Of Japanese ancestry, Berges graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1990. He has collaborated with his wife, British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films...
, which was released in the UK and India early 2006. Craig has scored Gurinder's latest feature film, "It's a Wonderful Afterlife
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
It's a Wonderful Afterlife is a 2010 British comedy film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay centers on an Indian mother whose obsession with marrying off her daughter leads her into the realm of serial murder. It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue...
", which is for a spring 2010 world-wide release.
In 2009, Craig was nominated for Best Soundtrack at the RTS Awards (Royal Television Society) for his music for the acclaimed BBC-TV drama series, "Moses Jones
Moses Jones
Moses Jones is a three-part BBC Television drama series written by Joe Penhall, directed by Michael Offer and produced by Cameron Roach that was first broadcast on BBC Two in February 2009.-Synopsis:...
". Since the series, he has teamed up with talented Ugandan musicians, Denis Mugagga and Daniel Sewagudde (formerly of DaTwinz fame in Africa), to create the group the Ganda Boys, with an album "The War of Love" released in 2009, and live shows in London. Craig is scoring the high profile BBC-TV drama series, "Five Days II", for Jan 2010.
Brazilian music featured in Craig's 2006 soundtrack: 90 minute Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
docu-drama "Gold Diggers - The Biggest Bank Robbery in History". An edgy, fast paced expose of the 2005 massive bank robbery in Fortelesa, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, directed by British director James Erskine. Featuring energetic Brazilian rhythms and tribal percussion layers, along with a filmic, hard-hitting music score, the program itself has become part of the police investigation in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
! In 2007, Craig composed the soundtrack for Turner Prize
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
nominated artist Zarina Bhimji's
Zarina Bhimji
Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Asian photographer and film maker, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.-Life and work:...
film Waiting), which became part of the prestigious Turner Prize exhibition in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
during October 2007.
As a songwriter, Craig has penned the Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
No. 1 UK chart single (December 1999/January 2000), one of the double A sides ("Two Worlds
Two Worlds (song)
"Two Worlds" is the name of a song by English singer Phil Collins for the soundtrack of the 1999 film Tarzan. The song is the opening song to the movie, however the song is used multiple times throughout the film. As such the song appears four times on the soundtrack.-Charts:...
"), part of Sir Cliff Richard's
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
chart hit, "Millennium Prayer" (sales over one million). In November 1999, Craig was nominated to be the composer for the most successful independent television drama series in British history, "Peak Practice
Peak Practice
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
", completing the very last four series (13 episodes each) for Carlton Television
Carlton Television
Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
until its conclusion in 2003.
In 2000, Craig contributed keyboards and sounds for composer John Altman
John Altman (composer)
John Altman is a British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.-Biography:Altman was introduced to the music of the 1930s and 1940s at an early age by an uncle who arranged and composed music for big bands and conducted for Judy Garland, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy,...
on the US television film, "RKO 281 - the Making of Citizen Kane
RKO 281
RKO 281 is a 1999 historical drama film directed by Benjamin Ross. It stars Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, and Roy Scheider and depicts the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane...
", which received 13 nominations for the Emmy Awards, winning the Emmy for best music soundtrack for 2000. Craig worked in his home studio with the director of the film, Ben Ross
Ben Ross
Ben Ross is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League . A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he has previously played club football for St...
, to record and perform the initial music sketches, and then also played keyboards with the orchestra for the final recordings of the soundtrack in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
Craig is the director/founder of the UK record label Heaven on Earth Music, and is an active Art of Living teacher for many years. He is married with four children, and has lived in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, UK, for many years. He is also a painter, photographer, graphic designer and poet.
Discography
(as artist/producer/arranger/musician/performer)- CAIN!! (1976)
- VISITOR 2035 (1978)
- Widor's Tocatta (1978)
- Tocatta & Fugue in D minor (1978)
- Happy Together (1979)
- Too Beautiful to Cry (1983)
- The Eye of Jupiter (1988)
- Through the Ages (1992)
- Welcome Home (1994)
- Terracotta (1996)
- Sacred Chants of Shiva (1997)
- Earth Dancer (1999)
- Sacred Chants of Buddha (2000)
- Sacred Chants of Rama (2001)
- Temple of Spice (2002)
- 108 Sacred Names of Mother Divine (2003)
- Language of Love (2003)
- Jupiter/Pictures (2003)
- Tribal Drums at Avebury (2006)
- Guided Meditation (2007)
- At-Ma - City in the Sky (2007)
- Angel of the Earth (2008)
- Ganda Boys - the War of Love (2009)
(as record producer/arranger for other artists)
- Sir Cliff Richard - "Now You See Me", "Silver", "Only Way Out", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Little Town", "Ocean Deep", "Under the Influence", "Drifting" (with Sheila Walsh)
- Sheila Walsh - "War of Love", "Triumph in the Air", "Don't Hide Your Heart", "Turn, Turn, Turn"
- Marietta Parfitt - "Do You Wanna Dance" (with Rick Parfitt)
- Aleksander Mecek - "Silent Witness"
- Anu MalikAnu MalikAnu Malik , born Anwar Sardaar Malik, is a famous music director in the Hindi film industry. Son of veteran music director Sardar Malek, Anu Malik made his debut as a music composer in the year 1977. After a considerable period of struggle, the 90's welcomed Anu with hits like 'Phir Teri Kahani...
- "Eyes" - Paul Sylvan - "Silent Witness", "Love Always Listens"
- Deepa Nair - "Into the Light"
- Alycia Lang - "She Do That"
(as arranger for other artists)
- Sylvia Love - "Instant Love" and "Extraterrestrial Lover" (1979) (synthesizer, arranger)
- Massive Attack - "100th Window" (strings, orchestral conductor, plays sitar)
- Def Leppard - "Turn to Dust" from the album "Slang" (strings, conductor, Indian percussion)
- Bond - "Shine", "Fuego" from the album "Shine" (strings, conductor, plays sitar, swaramandala)
(as musician/performer for other artists)
- Katie Melua - "Halfway Up the Hindu Kush" from the album "Piece by Piece" (sitar)
- Manic Street Preachers - "Tsunami" from the album "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours"
- Joe Cocker - "Let It Be" (keyboard solo)
- Sarah Brightman - "I Fell in Love with a Starship Trooper" (keyboards and electronics)
- Mike Oldfield - "Tubular Bells II" (world premier concert DVD)
- Gareth Gates - "Spirit in the Sky" (sitar solo)
- A Little Princess - film and CD sound track (sitar)
- The Guru - film and CD sound track (sitar)
- The Next Best Thing - film and CD sound track (sitar)
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - film and CD sound track (sitar, swaramandala, tambura)
- Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire - film and CD sound track (sitar solo)
(as film composer - soundtrack albums released)
- Bhaji on the Beach
- What's Cooking?
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Bride & Prejudice
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife
(as songwriter/composer for other artists)
- "Two Worlds" double A side of number 1 million selling UK chart single "Millennium Prayer" - Sir Cliff Richard
- "Young Americans Talking" - David Van Day
- "Superhero" - David Reilly
- "Red Desert", "Nataraj Express" - James Asher
- "Earth Tribe Transmission" - Ben Waters/World Chill Boogie project
- "When We Search For Beauty", "These Words", "There's a Book" - Alycia Lang
- "The Rules Don't Apply to You" - Relaxed Willy
Filmography
- Bhaji on the BeachBhaji on the BeachBhaji on the Beach is a 1993 film by director Gurinder Chadha with a screenplay by Meera Syal.-Plot synopsis:A diverse group of British women of South Asian descent go on a day trip to the beach in Blackpool; despite their differences—the older women are more traditional and conservative,...
(1993) - Bombay Brownwash (1993)
- What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny (1994)
- Samson Superslug (1994) ITV series
- Zigzag Kenya (1994) BBC-TV
- Rich Deceiver (1995) (BBC-TV drama series, 2 parts)
- Blue Funnel (1997) (short film)
- What's Cooking?What's Cooking?What's Cooking? is a 2000 British/American comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and starring Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Lainie Kazan, Maury Chaykin, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard, and Dennis Haysbert.-Plot:...
(2000) - Bend It Like BeckhamBend It Like BeckhamBend It Like Beckham is a 2002 comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom. The film was directed by Gurinder Chadha...
(2002) - Peak PracticePeak PracticePeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...
(52 episodes, 1999–2003) - The Calligrapher (2004)
- Bride & Prejudice (2004)
- The Mistress of SpicesThe Mistress of Spices (film)The Mistress of Spices is a film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha and Berges. It is based upon the novel The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The film stars Aishwarya Rai...
(2005) - Jane HallJane Hall (TV series)Jane Hall was a six-part British television comedy drama on ITV, written by Sally Wainwright and starring Sarah Smart and Stephen Mangan, revolving around Jane Hall's job training to be a bus driver and her home life in Hounslow, "the arsehole of London"....
(2006) - ITV - Scream of the Ants (2006) film
- Gold Diggers (2007) Discovery Channel documentary
- Waiting (2007) - installation film for the Turner Prize
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(2008) - BBC-TV drama series - It's a Wonderful AfterlifeIt's a Wonderful AfterlifeIt's a Wonderful Afterlife is a 2010 British comedy film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay centers on an Indian mother whose obsession with marrying off her daughter leads her into the realm of serial murder. It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue...
- (2009) feature film - Five Days II - (2010) BBC-TV drama series