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David Kershenbaum is an American record producer and entrepreneur.

Born in Springfield, Missouri, David Kershenbaum is known as producer and A&R man. Kershenbaum's productions are responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of record sales around the world and his touch has aided or rocketed some of the biggest names in the business: Tracy Chapman, Joe Jackson, Bryan Adams, Cat Stevens, Tori Amos, Josh Kadison, and Blessid Union of Souls.

"You never stop learning, no matter how many records you make and no man is an island in the studio, it's a team effort and a great artist is the key element. I had a pleasure to worlk with many of the World's finest talents in the 80s and I am so grateful to be a part of their success."- David Kershenbaum.

Kershenbaum has been an executive in three major record companies. Under Kershenbaum's supervision yielded many superstar artists during one of the most successful times of A&M's history. Kershenbaum's first album at A&M was the major platinum success for Joan Baez, "Diamonds and Rust"- the biggest album of her career. While vice-president/A&R at A&M Records, he signed Janet Jackson and caused a major shift in Black Music. Janet went on to break music history in sales and Grammy awards, as well as in the highly publicized $50 million record deal she ultimately signed with Virgin Records. David's great ear for outstanding music and rare talent resulted in his signing of multi-platinum artist Joe Jackson and production of four other Jackson albums including the classic "Night and Day" LP which became the artist's most successful, sweeping two Grammy nominations and a worldwide Top 5 single, "Stepping Out".

Kershenbaum is well known for a super hit Tracy Chapman album that resulted in a stunning debut with sales of over 17 million copies and $200 million in revenues. The LP was highly recognized by the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, earning three Grammy awards, six nominations including "Best Producer Of The Year", "Best Song Of The Year", "Best New Artist" and "Best Album Of The Year". In over 17 countries around the world, the single "Fast Car" was number One for weeks.

"Tracy Chapman is an absolutely unique artist with the voice from Heaven and a sense of writing that deeply affects those who hear her songs." - David Kershenbaum

Kershenbaum set new limits once again with his work with the wildly successful Duran Duran Rio album at Capitol Records. This work also resulted in many awards and Multi-platinum sales and smash hit "Hungry Like the Wolf".

Later Kershenbaum established his own group of companies encompassing 5 recording studios, a film music supervision division, and a music publishing company. Under this banner, he produced and recorded many projects including Kenny Loggins LP for Sony and the ground breaking new artist of the year...The Williams Brothers for Warner Brothers., as well as Internationally successful Platinum LP by Josh Kadison. Kershenbaum scored again with glittering debut of "Blessid Union Of Souls"/"I Believe", which held #1 slot in the country on Top-40 radio.

As a partner and co-president of Morgan Creek Music Group, Kershenbaum brought home the music for the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" acting as Executive Producer of "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" by Bryan Adams. This song went on to become the biggest single in the history of the music business at that time out selling singles by the Beatles and Elvis Presley. As a music supervisor, David has worked on many films. At Morgan Creek Pictures, he supervised and executive produced all of the music for the large slate of pictures. Other films include "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", "Roadhouse", "Last Of The Mohicans", "Navy Seals", "White Sands", "200 Cigarettes".

Currently, Kershenbaum is the founder and creator of a new and cutting edge Artist Development company - "Music Pros Hollywood".