Ed Steinberg
Encyclopedia
Ed Steinberg is a New York City-based music video
producer
/director
. Steinberg also founded the RockAmerica
video distribution network. Steinberg has a colorful reputation. He is perhaps best known for making Madonna
's first ever music video in 1982 for the song Everybody, but he has produced and directed more than 90 music videos for other artists such as Gipsy Kings
, Cheap Trick
, U2
and Yello
. Long-form television programs he has produced include music specials for MTV
; Alive From Off Center for PBS; and The Palladium, Where Mambo was King for Bravo. His videos are in collections in the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim. He has served as the musical director for the Havana Film Festival
since 2000.
Steinberg is currently the President of ROCKAMEDIA LLC, a media production and distribution company and Media Advisor to KIDOS
, an educational web site for kids 3–7 years old.
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
/director
Music video director
A music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...
. Steinberg also founded the RockAmerica
Rockamerica
RockAmerica is a music video subscription service for professional disc jockeys based in New York City, New York. Founded in 1980 by Ed Steinberg, it was the first company to offer music videos on a subscription basis, and provided a vital channel before the establishment of MTV and other...
video distribution network. Steinberg has a colorful reputation. He is perhaps best known for making Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
's first ever music video in 1982 for the song Everybody, but he has produced and directed more than 90 music videos for other artists such as Gipsy Kings
Gipsy Kings
The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...
, Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
, U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
and Yello
Yello
Yello is a Swiss electronica band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. They are probably best known for their singles "The Race" and "Oh Yeah", which feature a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, as does most of their music....
. Long-form television programs he has produced include music specials for MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
; Alive From Off Center for PBS; and The Palladium, Where Mambo was King for Bravo. His videos are in collections in the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim. He has served as the musical director for the Havana Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Spanish-language filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of La Havana.The festival takes place...
since 2000.
Steinberg is currently the President of ROCKAMEDIA LLC, a media production and distribution company and Media Advisor to KIDOS
, an educational web site for kids 3–7 years old.
Music videos
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Concentration | Chandra Chandra In Hinduism, Chandra is a lunar deity and a Graha. Chandra is also identified with the Vedic Lunar deity Soma . The Soma name refers particularly to the juice of sap in the plants and thus makes the Moon the lord of plants and vegetation. He is described as young, beautiful, fair; two-armed and... |
| 1980 | International language | Richard Strange Richard Strange For the Jesuit, see Richard Strange Richard "Kid" Strange is an English writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer, and the founder and front man of seminal mid-seventies protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness.-Music:Strange's first band was Doctors of Madness, formed in 1975,... |
| 1980 | Growing Up American | The Colors |
| 1980 | Jealousy | The Colors |
| 1981 | Lawn chairs | Our Daughter's Wedding Our Daughter's Wedding Our Daughter's Wedding was an American synthpop trio from New York, consisting of Layne Rico on synthesizer, Keith Silva on vocals and keyboards, and Scott Simon on bass-synth and saxophone. The group took their name from a section of greeting cards.-Career:... |
| 1981 | In the Congo | The Bongos The Bongos The Bongos were a rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, primarily active in the 1980s. With a unique blend of British Invasion-flavored power pop, jangly guitars, and dance beats they made the leap to national recognition with the advent of MTV.-Biography:... |
| 1981 | Too many creeps | Bush Tetras Bush Tetras Bush Tetras are an American post-punk band from New York City, popular in the Manhattan club scene in the early 1980s but never achieving much mainstream success. Their music combined funk rhythms and dissonant guitar riffs.-History:... |
| 1981 | Que pasa / Me no pop I | Coati Mundi Coati Mundi Coati Mundi is the stage name of American musician Andy Hernandez, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of Tropical Gangsters... |
| 1981 | Mambo sun | The Bongos The Bongos The Bongos were a rock band from Hoboken, New Jersey, primarily active in the 1980s. With a unique blend of British Invasion-flavored power pop, jangly guitars, and dance beats they made the leap to national recognition with the advent of MTV.-Biography:... |
| 1981 | Sunny day | Pigbag Pigbag -Origin and formation:Pigbag were formed in Cheltenham in late 1980 by Chris Hamlin, a fashion student at Cheltenham Art College. Hamlin recruited multi-instrumentalist Roger Freeman, an old friend from his hometown of Birmingham, along with Chris Lee on trumpet and James Johnstone, a guitarist,... |
| 1981 | Target for life | Our Daughter's Wedding Our Daughter's Wedding Our Daughter's Wedding was an American synthpop trio from New York, consisting of Layne Rico on synthesizer, Keith Silva on vocals and keyboards, and Scott Simon on bass-synth and saxophone. The group took their name from a section of greeting cards.-Career:... |
| 1981 | Lunatic fringe | Red Rider Red Rider Red Rider are a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, in the US, the band never had a song in the Top 40.... |
| 1982 | Everybody | Madonna Madonna (entertainer) Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983... |
| 1982 | Shape up | The Bank |
| 1982 | Clear it away | Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.-Biography:... |
| 1982 | Drum | Way of the West |
| 1982 | Words from the Front | Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.-Biography:... |
| 1982 | Person person | Joe 'King' Carrasco |
| 1982 | Dance after curfew | Nash the Slash Nash the Slash Nash the Slash is a Canadian musician. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments .Nash worked as a solo artist beginning in 1975, then founded the progressive rock band FM in... |
| 1982 | You don't own me | Silke Berlin |
| 1983 | Konk party | Konk Konk (Band) Formed in 1980 in New York City, KONK was a band that emerged during a period marked by the Post-Punk/New-Wave and Disco scenes which were prevalent at the time. KONK won the attention of both scenes by playing a hybrid of the two musical styles which involved the blending of a New Wave attitude... |
| 1983 | Working on my love | Polyrock Polyrock Polyrock was an American post-punk/new wave band formed in New York City in 1978 and active until the mid-1980s. Strongly influenced by minimalism, the group was produced by the composer Philip Glass and Kurt Munkacsi... |
| 1983 | AEIOU sometimes Y | EBN-OZN |
| 1983 | The hunter | Randy Fredrix |
| 1984 | Ground Zero | Aku Aku |
| 1985 | Changes of heart | Janice Payson |
| 1985 | Call me Mr. Telephone | Cheyne Cheyne (singer) Cheyne is a female R&B singer who was still a teenager when her song "Call Me Mr. Telephone " hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1985.-See also:*List of number-one dance hits... |
| 1987 | Let it be with you | Belouis Some Belouis Some Belouis Some is a British New Wave musician. He had hits in the 1980s with "Some People", "Round Round", , plus "Imagination" which also achieved success on the European and , and can be heard in the films Ghost Chase and The Business... |
| 1987 | Animal magic (version 2: & remix) | Belouis Some Belouis Some Belouis Some is a British New Wave musician. He had hits in the 1980s with "Some People", "Round Round", , plus "Imagination" which also achieved success on the European and , and can be heard in the films Ghost Chase and The Business... |
| 1989 | Bamboleo (version 3: Rockamerica & remix) | Gypsy Kings |
| 1990 | Love child (version 1: Rockamerica edit) | Sweet Sensation Sweet Sensation Sweet Sensation was a Puerto Rican female freestyle-dance music trio from The Bronx, New York.-History:Formed in 1986, In The Bronx . The original group members were Betty LeBron and sisters Margie and Mari Fernandez. Originally on Next Plateau Records, in 1988 they were picked up by Atco and... |
| 1992 | Are you ready to fly? (version 2: & remix) | Rozalla Rozalla Rozalla is a dance music performer, born to a Zambian mother and a Zimbabwean father... |
| 1993 | Sube sube | Marchin Marchin Marchin is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liege. On January 1, 2006 Marchin had a total population of 5,114. The total area is 30.00 km² which gives a population density of 170 inhabitants per km².... |
| 1994 | Who's Wylin' | Bushwackass |
| 1996 | Universal | John Mickie |
| 1997 | Where have all the cowboys gone? (version 2: remix) | Paula Cole Paula Cole Paula Cole is an American singer/songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.-Early life:... |
| 1998 | Brimful of Asha (version 2: Norman Cook remix) | Cornershop Cornershop Cornershop are a British indie rock band formed in 1991 by Wolverhampton-born Tjinder Singh , his brother Avtar Singh , David Chambers and Ben Ayres , the first three having previously been members of Preston-based band General Havoc, who released one single in 1991... |
| 2003 | Mas humilde y sin alarde | X Alfonso |
| 2003 | Que bueno baila usted | X Alfonso |
| 2010 | the Departed - from film Solomon Kane | Sully Erna (Godsmack) |