Lenny Waronker
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Lenny Waronker is a record producer for Warner Bros. Records.[1]
[edit] Career
He produced recording sessions for Nancy Sinatra, The Everly Brothers, Van Dyke Parks, The Beau Brummels, Harpers Bizarre, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Arlo Guthrie, Maria Muldaur, Gordon Lightfoot, Rickie Lee Jones, James Taylor, and others. He was an A&R rep, and was responsible for building much of the Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records, and DreamWorks Records rosters with talent including Little Feat, The Doobie Brothers, Curtis Mayfield, R.E.M., Rufus Wainwright, Elliott Smith, Nelly Furtado, and others. Waronker also ran Warner Bros. Records with Mo Ostin for many years.
After leaving Warner Bros., Ostin and Waronker ran DreamWorks Records from 1996 until it was sold to Universal Music in 2004.
[edit] Personal life
The son of record executive Simon Waronker, Lenny Waronker married singer Donna Loren. The couple had three children together: son Joey Waronker, daughter Anna Waronker, and daughter Katie Waronker. Lenny and Donna have since divorced. Lenny remarried and has two daughters, Lily Waronker, and Grace Waronker with wife Cathy Waronker, from whom he is recently divorced.
[edit] References
- ^ Kurutz, Steve. "Biography: Lenny Waronker". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p136063/biography. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
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