Neverland Studios is an American

United States

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 recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

 owned and operated by musician and songwriter Derri Daugherty

Derri Daugherty

Derri Daugherty is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for band The Choir....

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Neverland was originally built in Los Alamitos, California

Los Alamitos, California

Los Alamitos is a small city in Orange County, California. The city was incorporated in March 1960. The population was 11,449 at the 2010 census, down from 11,536 at the 2000 census...

, but eventually settled in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 when Daugherty relocated there in the early 1990s. Daugherty's band The Choir has recorded nearly all of its albums at the studio, including Chase the Kangaroo

Chase the Kangaroo

Chase the Kangaroo is the fourth studio album from Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 1988.-Recording history:Chase the Kangaroo was a radical departure from the upbeat, alternative pop sounds of Diamonds and Rain, and quickly proved to be a seminal work—not only for The Choir,...

, Wide Eyed Wonder, Circle Slide

Circle Slide

Circle Slide is the sixth studio album from Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 1990.-Recording history:Even with all the popular success that greeted Wide-Eyed Wonder and the band's relentless touring in support of that record, the circumstances that surrounded the creation of...

, Kissers and Killers

Kissers and Killers

Kissers and Killers is the seventh studio album from Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 1993.-Recording history:Rather than renew their recording contract with Myrrh, The Choir decided to create their own record label, Glasshouse, through which they could release their future...

, Speckled Bird

Speckled Bird

Speckled Bird is the eighth studio album from Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 1994.-Recording history:Largely a remixed and reworked version of the independent Kissers and Killers project...

, Free Flying Soul

Free Flying Soul

Free Flying Soul is the ninth studio album from Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 1996. It earned the band its first Dove Award win, in 1997.-Track listing:All lyrics by Steve Hindalong...

, the Grammy nominated

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...

 Flap Your Wings

Flap Your Wings (Choir album)

Flap Your Wings is the tenth studio album by Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 2000. It earned the band its first Grammy Award nomination in 2002.-Recording history:...

and O How the Mighty Have Fallen

O How The Mighty Have Fallen

O How The Mighty Have Fallen is the 11th studio album by Christian alternative rock band The Choir, released in 2005. This was the band's first album in 20 years not to be co-produced by Derri Daugherty and Steve Hindalong.-Track listing:...

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Other albums to be recorded at the studio include The Lost Dogs albums Real Men Cry

Real Men Cry

Real Men Cry is an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on BEC Records in 2001.This was the first album by the Lost Dogs after Gene Eugene's death in March 2000 and is a tribute to him....

, Nazarene Crying Towel

Nazarene Crying Towel

Nazarene Crying Towel is an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on BEC Records in 2003.-Track listing:# "Moses In the Desert" # "There You Are" # "Deeper In The Heart" # "Come Down Here"...

, MUTT, Island Dreams

Island Dreams

Island Dreams is an instrumental album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on Fools of the World records in 2005.-Track listing:# "Escape to Paradise" # "Wikki Tikki"...

and The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees

The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees

The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees is the title of an album by Roots music band Lost Dogs, released on Fools of the World records in 2006.-Track listing:# "Broken Like Brooklyn" # "Devil's Elbow"...

; parts of Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos

Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart...

' albums Kalhoun

Kalhöun

Kalhöun is an album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records in 1991. The album marked the return of the band after a number of years working on side projects like The Swirling Eddies....

and MotorCycle

MotorCycle

MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. The album was dedicated to the memory of songwriter Mark Heard.MotorCycle is a lush, pop rock album, which marked the return of longtime D.A...

; The Swirling Eddies

The Swirling Eddies

The Swirling Eddies are a band that began as an anonymous spinoff from the band Daniel Amos, along with new drummer David Raven.-Career:For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes; "Camarillo Eddy" , "Berger Roy Al" , "Gene Pool" , "Arthur Fhardy" , "Spot"...

' The midget, the speck and the molecule

The midget, the speck and the molecule

the midget, the speck and the molecule is the title of the latest album by rock band The Swirling Eddies, released in 2007 on Stunt Records....

; The Drums for Mark Heard

Mark Heard

John Mark Heard was a record producer, folk-rock singer, and songwriter originally from Macon, Georgia, USA....

's Second Hand

Second Hand

Second Hand is the title of an album by Mark Heard, released in 1991, on Heard's own Fingerprint Records. The album was listed at #4 in the book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music ....

; Drums and Guitars for John Austin

John Austin (songwriter)

- Background :Austin was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and grew up as the son of an ordained minister in Fairfax, Virginia. At age 19 he moved to Chicago and began performing his songs in the city's subway stations, coffee houses and nightclubs....

's The Embarrassing Young; Randy Stonehill

Randy Stonehill

Randall Evan "Randy" Stonehill is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music". His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on...

's Wonderama

Wonderama (album)

-Track listing:All songs written by Randy Stonehill except as otherwise noted.# "Wonderama" – 6:20# "I Will Follow" – 3:00# "Barbie Nation" – 4:57...

, and Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise (Stonehill album)

Return to Paradise is the title of an album by Randy Stonehill, released in 1989, on Myrrh Records. The title is a reference to Stonehill's earlier album, Welcome to Paradise....

; the Various Artists series City on a Hill

City on a Hill (series)

City On A Hill is a series of praise and worship music compilations performed by Contemporary Christian musicians and produced by Steve Hindalong, Derri Daugherty, and Marc Byrd, who are current members of Christian rock band The Choir...

, and others.

There is no connection to Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

's Neverland Ranch

Neverland Ranch

Neverland Valley Ranch is a developed property in Santa Barbara County, California, most famous for being a home of American entertainer Michael Jackson from 1988 to 2005. Jackson named the property after Neverland, the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, a boy who never grows up...

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