George Whitty is a musician

Musician

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/composer

Composer

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/producer

Record producer

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/engineer

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 currently living in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. He's produced three Grammy Award

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 winning CDs (most recently Randy Brecker

Randy Brecker

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's "34th and Lex") and was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows "One Life to Live

One Life to Live

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" and "As the World Turns

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".

As a musician, he's played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

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 and Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

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 ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion

Celine Dion

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 ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker

Randy Brecker

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 (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan

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 ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona

Richard Bona

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 (phenom from Camerooon), Chris Minh Doky

Chris Minh Doky

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, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr.

Grover Washington, Jr.

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, Till Brönner

Till Brönner

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 ("Midnight") and dozens of other top artists. His discography includes more than 100 CDs as a producer or musician, and he has hundreds of compositions for film and TV playing on everything from nature documentaries to feature films to TV reality shows and some of TV's longest-running series.

George Whitty was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon

Coos Bay, Oregon

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 and is a 1980 graduate of Marshfield High School. His brother Jeff Whitty

Jeff Whitty

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won a Tony for the play 'Avenue Q'.