Albhy Galuten


Albhy Galuten is an American technology executive and futurist, Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and conductor. He has numerous inventions and has produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammy Awards, a Dramalogue award and a BMI award. He also teamed up with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson. Galuten attended Berklee College of Music.
Singles include 13 number ones in the US:
Other hit singles include Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Love So Right, Guilty, What Kind of Fool, Emotion, I Can’t Help It, Heartbreaker, Chain Reaction, Eaten Alive, Eyes That See In the Dark

Career

Record Producer

Galuten's record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton,`Jesse Ed Davis, Titanic Love Affair and the Bee Gees.

Musician/Arranger

Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt. He is also credited with playing the first synthesizer in reggae.

Technology Executive

He is currently a technology executive at Sony and has been an executive at Universal Music Group and Ion. In his various roles as a technology executive Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum and the Coral Consortium.

Inventor

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop and has numerous patents in the areas content distribution and resolution, customer care, User Interface design and media aggregation and optimization.

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