Tor Hyams (born May 28, 1969) is an American songwriter and record producer.

History

Hyam's roster of artists include

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Lou Rawls Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American record producer, singer, composer and actor. Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably his s ...

Rachel York Rachel York (born August 7, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is known for stage roles in '' City of Angels'', ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'', ''Les Misérables'', ''Victor/Victoria'', ''Kiss Me, Kate'', ''Sly Fox'', '' Dirty Rotten Scound ...

Lisa Loeb Lisa Loeb (; born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with the number 1 hit song "Stay (I Missed You)" from the film '' Reality Bites,'' the first number 1 single for an artist ...

Perry Farrell Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein; March 29, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza as part (one of the ...

and

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. Most recently, Hyams produced the Lisa St. Lou's album ''Ain't No Good Man''. Hyams now works as a musical theatre composer. His first musical, ''Greenwood'', which was written with Adam LeBow, debuted at the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). His second musical, ''Stealing Time'', written with Lisa Rothauser, is now being developed for Broadway and has appeared at the Emerging Artists Theatre and the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. Accolades in this field include the

BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is a performance rights organization in the United States. It collects blanket license fees from businesses that use music, entitling those businesses to play or sync any songs from BMI's repertoire of over 20.6 mill ...

and the Johnny Mercer Writer's Colony at

Goodspeed Opera House Goodspeed Musicals is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. A distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River, th ...

. He is currently under commission on several projects. including

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, and Untitled, a project for Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW). Original theater projects also include ''The Skylight Room'', a collaboration with

John Cariani John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an American actor and playwright. Cariani is best known as the unwavering forensic expert Julian Beck in ''Law & Order''. On stage, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his role as Motel the Tailor in t ...

, ''The 1st Annual Trump Family Special'', a musical review of the first family, ''Howie D: Back in the Day'' (premier date Jan. 2020 at The Rose Theatre in Omaha, NE, a family musical loosely based on the childhood of Backstreet Boy,

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, ''Senior Living'', a play with music about people dying to live and ''

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'', a musical adaptation of the film by Allan Loeb. Hyams has also worked on children's music, writing and producing the CD '' A World of Happiness'' for Disney's

Buena Vista Records Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music recording arm of Disney Platform Distribution, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It is located at the studio's headquarters in Burbank, California. The division's subsidiaries consist of two owned record ...

featuring performances from

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Magic Johnson Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American former professional basketball player. He is often regarded as the greatest point guard of all-time and has been compared with Stephen Curry. Johnson played 13 seasons in the ...

Isaac Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, actor, songwriter, and composer. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwri ...

Gary Oldman Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three British Academy Fi ...

Michael McKean Michael John McKean (; born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, singer, and musician known for various roles in film and television such as Lenny Kosnowski in '' Laverne & Shirley'', David St. Hubbins in '' ...

Annette O'Toole Annette O'Toole (born Annette Toole; April 1, 1952) is an American actress. She is known for portraying Lisa Bridges in the television series '' Nash Bridges'', Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic hor ...

Brad Whitford Bradley Ernest Whitford (born February 23, 1952)Putterford, Mark (1991) ''The Fall and Rise of Aerosmith'', Omnibus Press, Strong, Martin C. (2001) ''The Great Metal Discography'' (2nd edn.), MOJO Books, , p. 11-13 is an American musician who i ...

, and

Jane Kaczmarek Jane Frances Kaczmarek (; born December 21, 1955) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Malcolm's mother Lois on the Fox television sitcom '' Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2006), which earned her three Golden Globe nominat ...

. He also co-produced the music video for one of the tracks "The Patience Bossa", directed by

and featuring a duet by

and

. He recently produced and co-wrote a family album for

called ''Which One Am I'' (release date July 12, 2019). In 2005, Hyams developed and presented the children's music festival, ''Kidzapalooza'', with

at the

Lollapalooza Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago. It originally started as a touring event in 1991 but several years later made Chicago the permanent location for the annual music festival. Musi ...

music festival in Chicago. In 2009 ''Kidzapalooza'' was a stand-alone festival at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, again produced by Hyams and Farrell. Kidzapalooza has run for six years with Hyams as producer and emcee. It will continue to at least 2015 and has spawned ''Kidzapalooza Radio'' on Sirius/XM and a compilation album. Hyams also produces the children's festival ''Austin Kiddie Limits'' as part of the

Austin City Limits ''Austin City Limits'' is an American live music television program recorded and produced by Austin PBS. The show helped Austin become widely known in the United States as the "Live Music Capital of the World", and is the only television show t ...

Music Festival. He now produces the Recess Family Music Festival in Detroit, Michigan and was a founding member of the now defunct KindieFest, the first ever family music conference. Another of his projects is Chutzpah (the world's first Jewish Hip Hop Super Group). Their reality-based comedy short film, ''Chutzpah, This Is? (The Official Hip-Hop-U-Mentary)'', stars George Segal,

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and

. It received accolades from the HBO Comedy Festival and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival Audience Award and received official selection at 16 film festivals, both in the USA and overseas."Chutzpah, This Is?" The Official Hip-Hop-U-Mentary: Honors"
''Official Website'' The group has since made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts, including Fox TV LA and Good Day New York. Their second album ''Hip Hop Fantasy'' was released in July 2009. Hyams was the co-author of Greenwood, a musical theater project in which old camp friends reunite to revive a musical they performed as children at a performing arts camp. He is also the co-author of ''Stealing Time'', a musical about two married individuals who, through finding each other ultimately discover who they really are.

Discography

* 1996 Various Artists, Underground Music Series Vol. 4 * 1995 Various Artists, Underground Music Series Vol. 3 * 1994 Tor Hyams, Zoom Ba Da Bing * 1998 Tor Hyams, Vultures * 2000 Tor Hyams, Eye To Eye * 2002

Gretchen Parlato Gretchen Parlato (born February 11, 1976) is an American jazz singer. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke. Pa ...

, self-titled debut album * 2004 Various Artists, A World of Happiness * 2005 Chutzpah, Eponymous * 2006

, Christmas * 2007

, Christmas Means Love * 2008 Julie Silver, It's Chanukah Time * 2009 Chutzpah, Hip Hop Fantasy * 2005

, Let's Fall in Love * 2005

, Two Sides of If * 2006 Tor Hyams, Lilah Tov * 2007 Tor Hyams, This is Chanukah * 2007 Various Artists, A Chanukah Celebration * 2007 Jambo, Lucy's Parade * 2008 Transylvannian Orchestra, Music of the Night * 2008

, Nobody's Fault But Mine * 2009 Milkshake, Great Day * 2009 Various Artists, Kidzapalooza, Volume 1 * 2009 Anacron, Delicious Vinyl Kids * 2010 Jim Cosgrove, Swimming in Noodles * 2010 Lunch Money, Original Friend * 2010 Take it Outside, The Okie Dokie Brothers * 2010 Greenwood Soundtrack * 2011 Recess Monkey, Flying * 2011 Tor Hyams, Rock the Cradle * 2007

, Breakfast in Bed * 2008

, Christmas Means Love * 2010 Frances England, Mind of My Own * 2012 Hullabaloo, Raise A Ruckus * 2012 Stealing Time Musical Soundtrack * 2013 Jambo, Hootenanny * 2013 Morning Wish Garden, The Ohmies * 2014 Sam Cieri, self-titled * 2014 Dyllan Murray, No Lies * 2016 Lisa Rothauser, Life. Who Knew? * 2019

, Which One Am I * 2020

, Merry Christmas, Baby * 2021 Lisa St. Lou, Ain't No Good Man * 2022 Lisa St. Lou, Mes Trucs Préférés Contributed to: * 2003 Tricky, Back To Mine, wrote "Little Bit" * 2009 We're Not Kidding, A Tribute to Barry Louis Polisar, performed "Hey Jack, What's in the Sack" and "Go and Hush the Baby" * 2009 Terraplane Sun, Keyboard player * 2010 23 SKidoo, Underground Playground, co-wrote "Secret Handshake" * 2010

Disco Biscuits The Disco Biscuits are an American jam band from Philadelphia. The band consists of Allen Aucoin (drums), Marc "Brownie" Brownstein (bass guitar, vocals), Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig (guitar, vocals), and Aron Magner (keyboards, synths, voca ...

, Planet Anthem * 2012 Science Fair with Renee & Jeremy, co-wrote "(I Wanna Be Like) Madam Curie" * 2013 Songs for a Healthier America, wrote "Change The Game" featuring Nawledge

References

External links

Tor Hyams Official Website
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A World Of Happiness Official Website

Kidzapalooza Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hyams, Tor 1969 births Living people American musical theatre composers Record producers from New York (state)