Ken Weiss(I)
- Music Department
- Producer
- Actor
Ken Weiss was born and raised in New York City. As a music lover from
early childhood, he discovered the worlds of live stage performance,
music publishing and music production. He began his formal music career
during a three year stint at Warner Chappell Music during which his
associations with diverse songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison
and Stephen Stills led to his venturing out as an independent. With
Gold Hill Music he led one of the industry's most successful
independent music publishing companies garnering multi-gold and
platinum albums with Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young), Firefall,
Stephen Stills, Fleetwood Mac and numerous others. With his company
Bronx Flash Music he signed composer Frank Wildhorn whose "Jekyll &
Hyde" stage production, after a five year Broadway run is a theatrical
mainstay throughout the world. The four time Tony nominated "Jekyll" is
slated to return to Broadway in 2013. Ken's company picked up with
rights to "The Scarlet Pimpernel," a three year Broadway and touring
hit with three Tony nominations, "The Civil War" with two Tony
nominations and then later with Broadway's "Dracula-The Musical" now
touring the world in extended runs. The musicals "Wonderland" opened on
Broadway in April of 2011 and later opening in 2011 was "Bonnie and
Clyde" a two time Tony nominee. The musicals "Carmen," "The Count of
Monte Cristo," "Rudolf" and "Tears From Heaven" are international
successes in both live stage performance and soundtrack recordings. As
a film and television Music Supervisor Ken has supervised music for
comedy specials featuring Rickey Smiley, Katt Williams, Joan Rivers,
Jay Leno, and many others. He was also Music Supervisor for the
groundbreaking live music concert series "Rock N' Roll Tonite" which
aired Saturday nights on NBC. Extending his music supervision work to
feature films, Ken has worked with prominent producers and directors
such as Jason Alexander, Thomas Bliss, Jean Doumanian, Mel Gibson,
Keith Gordon, Leon Ichaso, Steve Tisch, and others. He also produced
the acclaimed Universal soundtrack album of "Piñero" and the DH1
Studios soundtrack release of "The Singing Detective." Ken is a Grammy
voting member of both The Recording Academy and The Latin Grammys. He
has been awarded 20 Gold, Platinum and multi-Platinum record awards and
numerous industry achievement citations.