Bob Ezrin

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Bob Ezrin (born 1949 in Toronto, Ontario) is a musician and record producer.

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Canadian born Bob Ezrin is an influential music and entertainment producer with a successful career that spans 38 years.

He has been called "the Producer's Producer," and the arc of his career reads like the progression of popular entertainment. He has worked on legendary recordings with some of the world's leading artists including: Alice Cooper, KISS, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Roberta Flack, Peter Gabriel, Dr. John, Nils Lofgren, Kansas, Rod Stewart, Berlin, Hanoi Rocks, Nine Inch Nails, The Jayhawks, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Darkness, Jane's Addiction and many others. One of his most noteworthy productions is Pink Floyd's The Wall. He recently produced The Deftones as well as a live and TV extravaganza to reopen the SuperDome in New Orleans starring Green Day and U2. Today he is in the middle of producing an album and live opera with L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio from Rome, Italy.

Ezrin is also highly respected for his many years of work in live performance, film, television and radio production in the US, UK and Canada. He created new theatrical, television and live events with @Radical.Media in New York including Jay-Z's feature film, "Fade to Black".

In 1993, he co-founded a computer software company called 7th Level which developed and published educational and entertainment CD-ROMs including a highly popular and groundbreaking series of Monty Python games. In 1999, he co-founded Enigma Digital, a pioneer internet radio provider. It was eventually sold to Clear Channel, where he became vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive. Ezrin was also Chairman of Live Nation Artists Recordings in 2007 and the first half of 2008.

Ezrin was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during in April 2004 and into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in March, 2006. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Los Angeles Mentoring Partnership, Vice President of the The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a founder of MusiCounts, CARAS' music education initiative and, along with U2's the Edge and Henry Juszkiewicz the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, a co-founder of Music Rising (www.musicrising.org), an initiative to replace the musical instruments that were destroyed or lost in the gulf coast region due to the hurricanes and flooding of 2005. He is also a past Trustee and Governor of NARAS.

In 1982, Ezrin briefly appeared as the host of Enterprise, a City-TV panel show replacing Dr. Morton Shulman's The Schulman File. He has been a keynote speaker at numerous music, entertainment and business conferences as well as a guest lecturer at various universities and colleges around North America. He has also been a frequent interviewee for documentary films and television.

Ezrin is now a partner in Big Picture Entertainment in Nashville, TN and continues his work in the studio as well as on film, television and in theatrical productions. In 2008 he helped to establish Beat Kangz electronics, a music technology start up focused on rap music equipment.^[1]

In 2009 Ezrin,along with GGGarth Richardson,started Nimbus School of Recording Arts in Vancouver,BC.The school takes a very hands on approach compared to schools with similar programs.[1]

Ezrin is married and has six grown children and two dogs.