Summary: <p>This week on The Entertainment Engine podcast we welcome American music producer and composer Victor Merritt. We discuss his time working with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and being mentored by Charlie Wilson and BabyFace. </p> <p>Victor Merritt was born in Tulsa Okla in 1967, he has always been intrigued by music as a young boy. When he wrote his first song as an 11 yr old. At that stage, his baby brother was his sounding board for all Victor’s material. Then, when Victor was 14 his <strong>grandmother </strong>brought him his first musical instrument, a (Yamaha PC 1000 Keyboard for 1,100$ in 1983). Within a year Victor was able to play any top 40 songs he liked he then formed a band with his high school friends called, <strong>“THE TASTEMAKERS”</strong>, Victor was the keyboardist, composer, and co-lead singer of the band.</p> <p>Victor then went on to gain a music scholarship to Contra Costa College in Richmond California. Where he attended college for 5 months and just wanted to try music full time. Victor then left college in early 1986 and with the help of his 3 mentors Babyface, Teddy Riley & Charlie Wilson were Victor learned how to stay “Appreciative and Ambitions”. With all this experience, Victor went on to carve a <strong>music career</strong> working with some music great’s over many years, starting with <strong>MCA Chairman</strong> in 1997, Doug Morris, Ms. Abby Konowitch, EVP and Ms. Nancy Levin, SVP, made it enjoyable for Victor and Gerald, (“The Grand Jury’’) to perfect their craft.</p> <p>Throughout Victor's career he has had the opportunity to do a remix for, <strong>The Greatest Band On The Planet, (“U2”</strong>): [If God Will Send His Angels] {The Grand Jury Mix}, on<strong> ‘Island Records’</strong>. Victor then went on to work with the legend himself <strong>Michael Jackson</strong> where he produced and played keyboards from the trio “Brownstone,” (MJJ Records)/Michael Joe Jackson’s label.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Follow & subscribe </strong>to ''The Entertainment Engine'' for weekly news & updates.</p> <p>(Podcast created by Peter Moore & BeX Gregory at Seamless Entertainment)</p> <p><br></p> <p>Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/EntEngine" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@entengine</a></p> <p>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheEntertainmentEngine" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEntertainmentEngine</a></p> <p>Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/seamless_entertainment/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@seamless_entertainment</a></p> <p>Sign up to the > <a href="https://sendfox.com/theentertainmentengine" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Weekly Newsletter</a></p> <p>The Entertainment Engine - <a href="https://seamlessentertainment.co.uk/the-entertainment-engine" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website </a></p> <p>Seamless Entertainment - <a href="https://seamlessentertainment.co.uk/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website</a></p> <p>The Entertainment Engine - <a href="https://www.teepublic.com/en-gb/t-shirt/13250254-the-entertainment-engine?ref_id=13814&store_id=471309" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Merch Store</a></p> <p>Email the team: podcast@seamlessentertainment.co.uk</p> <p>Send us a voice message for a chance to be featured on the show via - <a href="https://anchor.fm/entertainmentengine/message" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/entertainmentengine/message </a></p> <p>The background music was written & produced by<a href="https://push.fm/fl/b05hvryf" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> BeX </a>& Alan Glass. (<a href="https://seamlessentertainment.co.uk/music-solutions" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seamless Music productions</a>)</p> <p>Podcast engineered & mixed by BeX Gregory.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/entertainmentengine/message
