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Daniel Sembello (January 15, 1963 – August 15, 2015) was an American
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 gen ...
,
record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
and multi-instrumentalist. He produced recordings by artists including
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and Pebbles, and he had his compositions recorded by
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,
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,
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(the hit single "
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"),
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,
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, and
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(the hit single "
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"). In 1986, he won a
Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer (or composers) for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media at the Grammy Awards The Grammy Awards (stylize ...
, for his contributions to the ''Beverly Hills Cop'' soundtrack. He was the brother of
Michael Sembello Michael Andrew Sembello (born April 17, 1954) is an American singer, guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, composer and producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sembello was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his 1983 song " ...
. Danny Sembello drowned in the
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near
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, on August 15, 2015. He was first reported missing after he went for a swim during a music festival in Manayunk.


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External links


Danny & Michael Sembello Official Website
* 1963 births 2015 deaths Musicians from Philadelphia American male composers American composers American people of Italian descent American rhythm and blues musicians Record producers from Pennsylvania American multi-instrumentalists Deaths by drowning in the United States Grammy Award winners {{music-producer-stub