Curtis Frasca

Curt Frasca
Birth name	Curtis Jason Frasca
Born	August 29, 1972 (1972-08-29) (age 39)
Genres	Rock, Pop
Occupations	Record Producer, Songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Years active	1986–2006 Record Producer 2006 - Present CEO / Company Owner
Associated acts	Madonna, Avril Lavigne
Website	curtfrasca.com, versemusicgroup.com

Curt Frasca (born August 29, 1972 in New York, NY) is an American record producer, songwriter, entrepreneur. He has worked with Prince, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Avril Lavigne, Moby, Spice Girls and others.

Career

Curt Frasca is an award winning record producer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, currently residing in New York City with wife Award winning singer/songwriter Sabelle Breer & kids. Sabelle is the daughter of legendary artist Robert Breer. Curt's work appears on over 150 million albums sold worldwide, including those of Aretha Franklin, Prince, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Moby, John Cougar. Curt's songs appear on over 50 million albums sold worldwide, including the artists Missy Higgins, Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne. He co-founded Verse Music Group in 2006, Verse Music Group is part of the Wicks Group of Companies. [1]

1980s

Growing up in New York, Curt started drumming at a very early age. In his teens he discovered punk music, bands like The Jam, Sex Pistols, MC5, The Clash and Ramones. Professional career started while still in high school mixing, recording, programming on such influencel records as De La Soul "Say No Go", 3rd Bass "Brooklyn Queens", "The Gas Face", albums produced by producer Prince Paul. Other artist's Curt worked with during this period were Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane, Fine Young Cannibals "Good Thing". "When Rolling Stone Magazine showed up to shoot De La Soul for its cover, I knew we had changed the direction of pop music". With mainstream success Curt's drum programming and mixing skills were in demand.

1990s

In the early 90's Curt worked heavily with legendary DJ/Producer Shep Pettibone, a few of the artists included Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Cher, Patti Labelle, Jeffrey Osborne, Cyndi Lauper, Jane Child, Bananarama, Spice Girls, Prince. Produced the song "Someday" with Mariah Carey for her first American Music Awards appearance. Mixed Moby's major label debut Move. Remixing songs k.d. Lang "Lifted by Love", Sophie B. Hawkins"Right Beside You", Tangerine Dream, Paul Haslinger amongst many others. Verse Studios opened in 1999, Curt's private multi-room facility in NYC and was profiled in MIX magazine. The studio is a combitination of vintage analog gear and modern recording tools featuring a custom Neve 8058 console from the 70's and an SSL 9000J.

2000s

In 2001 after attempts to capture Avril Lavigne's sound, Arista A&R head Josh Saurbin reached out to the production & writing team of Curt Frasca and Sabelle Breer (Madonna, Ryan Cabrera, Stacie Orrico) to help with the album.^[1] Avril Lavigne's debut record Let Go, would go on to sell 18 million albums worldwide and garner 3 Grammy Award nominations. 2002 Curt & Sabelle discovered and signed artist Ryan Cabrera producing and co-writing much of his multi-platinum debut release Take It All Away, which debut on at number eight on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album included the Top 40 hits "On The Way Down" and "40 Kinds of Sadness". The single "On the Way Down" went double platinum and received an ASCAP Pop Award for most airplay of 2006. Curt wrote "Warm Whispers" with the great Missy Higgins for the album On A Clear Night. The album entered the charts at #1. Performed at Live Earth 2007 [2]

2010

July 2010 Founded Verse Music Group along with Sabelle Breer as an acquisition platform to purchase music-related intellectual property rights and other assets - current value: $250 Million

NEWS: Wicks Targets Music Publishing read more [3]

CEO & Founder of Verse Music Publishing [4].

• Served on the Grammy's Board NARAS of Governor's.
• Founder & CEO of Verse Music Publishing [5].

Selected discography

• Vogue Madonna
• Say You'll Be There Spice Girls
• Everyday People Aretha Franklin
• The Cactus Album 3rd Bass
• Say No Go" De La Soul
• Someday Mariah Carey
• There's Got to Be a Way Mariah Carey
• State of the World Janet Jackson
• The Beginning Seal
• The Promise of a New Day Paula Abdul
• Rescue Me Madonna
• Cream Prince
• Let Go Avril Lavigne
• On the Way Down Ryan Cabrera
• Into The Skyline Cathy Dennis
• A Very Special Christmas Celine Dion
• Under My Skin Avril Lavigne

References

1. ^ http://www.avrillatina.com/en/avril-lavigne-biography.htm

Press

• Billboard Magazine News [6]
• CurtFrasca.com [7]
• People Magazine [8]
• 2006 Interview [9]

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