Albhy Galuten

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Albhy Galuten
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Background information
Birth nameAlan Bruce Galuten
Born (1947-12-27) December 27, 1947 (age 73)
Hartsdale, New York, United States
Occupation(s)
InstrumentsPiano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
Associated acts

Albhy Galuten (born Alan Bruce Galuten; December 27, 1947) is an American technology executive and futurist, Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and conductor. He has numerous inventions and has produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammy Awards, a Dramalogue award and a BMI award. He also teamed up with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson. Galuten attended Berklee College of Music.[1]

Singles[clarification needed] include 13 number ones in the US:

Other hit singles include "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" (Eric Clapton), "Love So Right" (Bee Gees), Guilty (Barbra Streisand), "What Kind of Fool" (Barbra Streisand), "Emotion" (Samantha Sang), "I Can't Help It" (Olivia Newton-John & Andy Gibb), "Heartbreaker" (Dionne Warwick), "Chain Reaction" (Diana Ross), "Eaten Alive" (Diana Ross), "Eyes That See In the Dark" (Kenny Rogers)

Career[]

Record producer[]

Galuten's record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton,`Jesse Ed Davis, and the Bee Gees.

Musician and arranger[]

Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt. He is also credited with playing the first synthesizer in reggae.[2]

Technology executive[]

He is currently a technology executive at Sony but previously acted as the Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology at Universal Music Group and the Vice President of New Technology at Ion. In his various roles as a technology executive, Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (Chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).

Inventor[]

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees,[1] the enhanced CD) and has numerous patents in the areas content distribution and resolution, customer care, User Interface design and media aggregation and optimization.

Issued Patents[]

  1. 10,136,189 – Method and system for re-aggregation and optimization of media
  2. 9,811,799 – Distributed customer support credits
  3. 9,159,370 – Distributing media using a portable digital device compatible with optical drive devices
  4. 8,626,732 – Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets
  5. 7,624,046 – Electronic music/media distribution system
  6. 7,574,434 – Method and system for navigating and selecting media from large data sets
  7. 7,209,892 – Electronic music/media distribution system
  8. 6,918,059 – Method and system for handling errors in a distributed computer system

Published Patents can be found here[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Revisiting The 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack (1977) | Retrospective Tribute". Albumism. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  2. ^ "Caribbean News - First Synthesizer in Reggae". Sflcn.com. 25 July 2011.

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