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Zone Music Reporter
Zone Music Reporter (formerly ''New Age Reporter'') is a website tracking New Age, world, and instrumental music. The site features weekly playlist, monthly airplay charts, and album reviews. Premium services are also offered to artists and their management compiling custom airplay reports for that artist. Awards Past winners The Zone Music Reporter sponsors the yearly ZMR Awards yearly (Formerly the ''NAR LifeStyle Music Awards'') since 2004. Past winners include Marc Enfroy, Paul Adams, Michael Dulin, Jeff Oster, Bill Leslie, Jeff Pearce, Áine Minogue, Peter Kater, Will Ackerman, Starr Parodi, Ricky Kej, Al Conti, Michael DeMaria, Darlene Koldenhoven, Sangeeta Kaur, Aomusic, Kerani, Fiona Joy, and Amethystium Amethystium is an ambient/ electronica/ neoclassical music project created by Norwegian producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Øystein Ramfjord. Under the Amethystium name, Ramfjord has released five full-length albums (''Odonata'', ''Aph .... Categori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Enfroy
Marc Maurice Enfroy (born 1965) is an American composer, songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ... and producer who describes his music as "cinematic piano" due to its score-like, piano-driven nature. Born into a musical family, he is the grandson of radio entertainer and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Bradley Kincaid, a.k.a. “The Kentucky Mountain Boy.” Enfroy has released several studio albums and is best known for his fifth album, "Crossroads", which peaked at number 2 on the '' Billboard'' New Age Albums Chart in August 2016 and was the fourth best-selling iTunes album in Metro Detroit for the week of August 4, 2016. His debut release, ''Unbounded'', earned the Zone Music Reporter Lifestyle Music Award for Best Neo-Classical Album of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Kej
Ricky Kej (born 5 August 1981 - Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a multi-Grammy Award-winning Indian music composer and environmentalist. He has performed at venues in over 30 countries including at the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva. Kej was named a UNCCD Land Ambassador at the COP14 to raise public awareness about the challenges of land degradation, desertification and drought. Kej also serves as a UNESCO - MGIEP "Global Ambassador for Kindness", UNICEF Celebrity Supporter, and is an ambassador for the Earth Day Network. In 2020, Kej was named as a GQ Hero 2020 by GQ magazine. In 2015, he won a Grammy at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards for his album ''Winds of Samsara'' in the Best New Age Album category. The project, his 14th studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the US ''Billboard'' New Age Albums Chart in August 2014, a first for a person of Indian origin. The album also peaked at No. 1 on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart in the month of July 2014. Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Joy Hawkins
Fiona Joy Hawkins, known professionally as Fiona Joy, is an Australian vocalist and pianist. Her collaborations have included five albums produced by Will Ackerman. Her influences include George Winston, Michael Nyman, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' said of her in 2007 that she "ranks among the world's best in her genre, but struggles for recognition in her home country" of Australia, largely due to the lack of recognition given to the genre by Australian music critics until she won the 2006 ZMR award. Fiona Joy is the first Australian to place in the top ten on the ZMR chart and the first to win a ZMR award. Early life Fiona Joy was born in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia, and raised in both Newcastle and Tamworth. She began to study the piano at a young age, composing short pieces before she was a teenager. She trained at the Tamworth Conservatorium of Music under tutor Ursula Bakker and showed early signs of musical talent. Her teachers incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerani
Kerani (1968) is a Dutch composer, orchestrator, and producer of Hungarian heritage known for her sophisticated and meticulously crafted music, infused with classical influences. She is recognised for her contributions to various media projects, including documentaries, short films, and trailers. Over the course of her career, Kerani has released ten albums, each showcasing her unique artistic vision. Notably, Kerani has been honoured in the US with the distinguished ZMR Music Award for Best Neo-Classical New Age Album on three separate occasions, underscoring her significant impact on the genre. Biography Kerani, born in Belgium to Hungarian parents, currently resides in the Netherlands. She is the founder and head of Kerani Music, her own publishing company. Additionally, she oversees Toon Zaal 1an art gallery, music recording, and media production company located in the close proximity to Maastricht. Early life Kerani spent her formative years in Brussels, Belgium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeeta Kaur
Sangeeta Kaur is a Grammy Award winning Vietnamese American classical/crossover, new age vocalist, composer, performing artist, and producer. In 2022, she received a Grammy Award for ''Best Classical Solo Vocal Album'' for ''Mythologies'', making her the first Vietnamese-American singer to ever receive a Grammy for a vocal performance. She has performed at the Sydney Opera House and Lincoln Center, among others and in 2021 made her debut television performance, ''"Sangeeta Kaur and Friends"'', with Jon Anderson of Yes and Jake Shimabukuro, among others on PBS's ''Front & Center'' music series."Kaur shot her first TV Special in May 2021 as part of the "Front & Center" music series and is scheduled for the 2021 season, page A14", '' The Democrat Times ,'' December 15, 2021 Kaur performed vocals on Stewart Copeland's and Ricky Kej's 2022 Grammy Award Winning album, ''Divine Tides''. She has won numerous awards including being inducted to the ''Independent Music Hall of Fame'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darlene Koldenhoven
Darlene Koldenhoven (born October 9, 1950) is an American musician. Darlene won a Grammy Award for her singing. Career Grammy recipient and is a three-time Grammy nominee for the lead soprano in Clare Fischer's 2+2. She was the featured soprano soloist in the PBS television special, ''Yanni, Live at the Acropolis'', and in Grammy Winner Ricky Kej's "Shanti Samsara" concerts/videos in Bangalore, India, for consciousness awareness. Darlene has an MVP award from the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammys) for "Best Studio Singer" for singing in venues including movies, television, albums/CDs, commercials, video games, live shows. She has a Platinum album for her vocal work on Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason". She earned a Gold album as the tambourine-waving choir nun in both ''Sister Act'' films with Whoopi Goldberg and off-camera as the production vocal coach, vocal contractor, and music director. She has two Telley Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael DeMaria
Michael Brant DeMaria is an American psychologist, author, and musician. Music DeMaria's album ''Siyotanka'' was released in January 2009 debuting at #2 on the Zone Music Chart, a music airplay tracking agency. It climbed to #1 on the Chart in February 2009. ''Siyotanka'' was composed as a soundtrack to a play by the same name co-written with Stephen C. Lott, Ph.D. and produced in 2008. It went on to win a ''Native American Music Award'' in October 2009 in the Native Heart category. ''Siyotanka'' was then nominated for a Grammy in December 2009 during the 52nd Grammy Awards. ''Siyotanka'' in March 2010 won the Zone Music Award for ''Best Native American Music Album of 2009''. DeMaria's album ''Ocean'' was released in November 2009 debuting at #1 on the Zone Music Chart. ''Ocean'' held this number one spot in December 2009 and January 2010 for a total of 3 months. ''Ocean'' went on to win ''Best Ambient Album of 2009'' and ''Best Relaxation/Meditation Album of 2009'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Conti
Al Conti (born 9 March 1968) is a Grammy-nominated New Age composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Al Conti is Argentinian-born and currently resides in the United States. Since 2006, Conti has led an impressive music career achieving various mentions, awards and a Grammy nomination. ''Mystic'' (2016), his latest album, includes collaborations from Ricky Kej, Pamela Copus (2002), Jeff Pearce and Charlee Brooks. Other notable album credits include violins from award winner Manoj George and engineers Randy Copus (2002), Jill Tengan (Britney Spears, Patsy Cline, Randy Edelman, Pimpinela, Patricia Sosa, Daniela Romo) and Vanil Veigas (Ricky Kej, Al Jewer, Jeff Oster, Kathy Sanborn, Wouter Kellerman). "Mystic" entered the Zone Music Reporter's Top 100 Chart in the number 1 position in October, 2016. Conti's 2013 album, ''The Blue Rose'', immediately rose to the top #1 spot on the Zone Music Reporter (ZMR) Top 100 chart for May and June 2014. The album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starr Parodi
Starr Parodi (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer, pianist, conductor, arranger, music director and former president of The Alliance For Women Film Composers. Parodi has won multiple BMI most performed music awards, Key Art and Telly Awards. In May 2017 Parodi's most recent album "The Heart Of Frida" a cinematic collection of solo piano works inspired by the late legendary artist Frida Kahlo, was awarded ZMR's "Piano Album Of The Year - Solo" by International Radio Broadcasters and "Solo Piano Album Of The Year - Improvised" by SoloPiano.com. Parodi's solo piano recording "Common Places" was awarded Solo Piano Recording of the Year by solopianoradio.com in 2007 and in 2005 she received an RIAA Gold Record for her recording and updated arrangement of the "James Bond Theme". Composer, producer, arranger and conductor Parodi, along with her husband/partner Jeff Eden Fair, has composed/produced both themes and underscore for a wide variety of films, film trailer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Adams (musician)
Paul Adams (born August 1951) is an American musician, writer and musical instrument builder. Early career Adams began his foray into the arts by making stringed musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, basses, and dulcimers after he was introduced to the craft as an ethnomusicology student under Dr. Joel Maring at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Adams has been commissioned to build instruments by Daryl Hall, members of Stevie Wonder's band as well as other well known musicians. He has twelve albums out in multiple genres and can be heard on Siriusxm music, Music Choice, Apple Music, Spotify and Pandora Radio where he has over 101 million streams. In May 2016 his most recent album, ''Imaginings'', won Best Contemporary Instrumental Album of the year at the Zone Music Reporter Awards in New Orleans. The follow up album ''Deeper Imaginings'', a collaboration with Australian musician was released in November 2019. In July 2022 Adams and Geyer released the album San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Ackerman
William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records. Career Early years Ackerman was born in Palo Alto, California. His adoptive father was a professor of English at Stanford University. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in western Massachusetts. He returned to Palo Alto to study English and History at Stanford University. His life took a turn when he discovered he had a fondness for carpentry. He was five credits short of graduating when he left Stanford to work as an apprentice to a Norwegian boat builder. In 1972, he founded Windham Hill Builders in Palo Alto while playing music for Stanford theater productions and performing impromptu concerts in town. Windham Hill Records With money borrowed from friends, he recorded his first album, ''The Search of Turtle's Navel'', later changed to '' In Search of the Turtle's Navel'', on his own label, Windham Hill R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kater
Peter Kater (born 1958) is a German-born American pianist, composer and Grammy Award winner. When he was four, he moved with his family from Germany to New Jersey. He studied classical piano at an early age. In 1977 when he was eighteen, Peter moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he spent thirteen years before moving to Virginia and later Los Angeles, building his own studio, and starting his own record label. His debut album, ''Spirit'' (Silver Wave, 1983), and those that followed reached the Top 20 New Age music chart at ''Billboard'' magazine. These included several collaborations with R. Carlos Nakai. He has also collaborated with Snatam Kaur, Michael DeMaria, Tina Guo, Nawang Khechog and Dominic Miller. His first Grammy Award nomination was for the album ''Red Moon'' (Silver Wave, 2003) for Best New Age Album. 13 more nominations followed with his first win coming in 2018 for the album '' Dancing on Water'' (Point of Light, 2017). Kater has sold millions of records, scored the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
