Derek Brin

DEREK BRIN, a Multi-Platinum Award winning Producer, Songwriter & Mix Engineer.
Specialty: Urban, Pop & Caribbean music.
AVAILABLE to do PRO TOOLS MIXES thru ON LINE delivery for any artists working on great music that needs to sound right.



PRODUCTION & SONGWRITING placements with: Jaheim, Jane Zhang (Universal Japan), Noel G (Sony Urban), Che'Nelle (Virgin), RuPaul, Robyn (BMG Sweden), Massari (Universal Canada, Middle East), Sy'rai, The Ojays, Innosence (Transcontinental), Billie (UK), Kelli Price, Keshia Chante (Sony/BMG), Dru, KristineW (1 Billboard Dance), Ivana Santilli, Dream Warriors (Island Records), Puya (Romania's 1 rapper), Andreea Balaan (Romanian Superstar), Keo (Romanian Superstar)
MIX ENGINEER credits: Neyo, RUNNIN (1 club smash by James Doman feat Dru & Lincoln), I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DJ & CLUBJUMPIN - Che'Nelle (mixed with 2x Grammy mix engineer Andrew Dawson), WHATCHADO - Chach feat SNOW, RUNAWAY JONES Album, Robyn (BMG Sweden), DELUXX - Degrassi Goes to Hollywood & The Next Generation, UNPREDICTABLE - Keshia Chante, RED BONEZ RHYTHM - Soca track for Carnival in Barbados & Trinidad (all versions)



NEW RELEASES & projects in studio.
DRU - "WOULD YOU MIND" Feb 2010



MASSARI (Universal, Middle East/Canada) - the current single UNDER THE RADAR & the previous single BODY BODY - Produced 10 songs on the album. release Date November 10, 2009



SYRAI - first single "LET IT RAIN". Music & video were done in Sierra Leone, Africa.



RACHEL - song "DELUXX" placed in the television series RETURN TO DEGRASSI (which launched DRAKE)
RACHEL - song "DELUXX" placed in the MTV movie DEGRASSI GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
JANE ZHANG (Universal, Japan) - about to record the song "DELUXX" for release in Asia
CHACH - "WHATCHA DO" featuring Snow - first single
BARBADOS CROPOVER June/July2009 - Released 12 new SOCA songs for Barbados Cropover (Carnival) co-Produced with Gary Serrao
DRU - WOULD YOU MIND (single) about to be released with video & the album was just licensed to Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and South Africa.
EKUE feat. SHAZELLE (from Trinidad) - single: "ELEVATOR"
EKUE feat. J.HUGGINS (from St Kitts) - single "JUST a FRIEND"
ANDREEA BALAN - Sony, Romania - Produced 3 songs for the Romania superstar's last album
KITORAH (Barbados)
BELINDA BRADY - reggae album



"THE DEVIL IS A LIAR"
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3 years ago Derek signed to OLE, Canada's largest independent music publisher.
Derek's currently riding on the recent success of Capitol Recording artist Che'Nelle's first crossover single I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DJ, an international hit featuring Baby Cham from Jamaica. Derek also produced her 3rd upcoming single CLUBJUMPIN', which just appeared in an episode of "THE HILLS (MTV). Derek just Produced 6 tacks for Kitorah who sang the theme song at the Beijing Olympics, 2 tracks for the Canadian artist DRU and the current hit "BEAUTIFUL SURPRISE" for Barbados based Philip7.



He worked with Balewa Muhammad (now with The Clutch), Sekay and T.O. (Trakaddix) to deliver Jaheim's "DADDY THING" on his last album which entered Billboard's top 100 at 1. Produced & Mixed Kristine W's (RCA) number 1 Billboard smash "STRONGER" & 4 songs for RuPaul's last album. He Produced a song on each of the last two Canadian Idol records both going platinum and double platinum & Keshia Chante's single "Unpredictable" which went gold as well as the album. He remixed Robyn's first US single "DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES" which went Gold in the US and worked as a Programmer for Guy Roche/Diane Warren on the first Pokemon soundtrack (Double platinum in the US) and the Blue Streak soundtrack (Gold in the US). Derek also worked on the Diane Warren songs for the INNOSENSE album (Transcontinental/RCA).
After many years in the Toronto music scene, Derek worked in New York and then moved to LA. While in LA, he did drum and keyboard programming for heavy-weight Producers and songwriters like Dianne Warren, Guy Roche, Jud Friedman and Allen Reich, Dan Hill & Jorgen Elofsen (Sweden). He also wrote with some of the better songwriters like Emanual Officer, Marlaina Kemp, Lina, Mishcke, Siedah Garrett & RuPaul to name a few.
Derek is one 1/2 of the production team EKUE formed to develop Caribbean artists and just released the first single "JUST A FRIEND" featuring J.Huggins and just released the 2nd single called ELEVATOR featuring Shazelle from Trinidad. Derek has also produced a lot of music for Carnival in the Caribbean.
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if u wanna KNOW me.READ CARFEULLY AND UNDERSTAND THE MEANINGS:
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling. but in rising every time we fall"
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed"
(in life, we don't all start off at the same place nor do we end up at the same place or with equal success. I'm just saying you need to look at an individual and judge him by his journey and his spirit not only the destination or the outcome. Just remember, some people were handed success while some people actually earned theirs and place value on what they've achieved.)
"Dreams become the life you lead"
Without dreams we wouldn't have the motivation to want different or better things in our lives. I'm sure those without dreams live boring lives.



CD COVERS OF RECORDS I'VE EITHER PRODUCED, MIXED OR DID THE PROGRAMMING:



MOVIES & TELEVISION SHOWS I'VE EITHER SCORED OR PLACED SONGS IN:



(Toronto) The annual Bell Mobility Celebrity Gala (won the award for "Largest Charity event in Canada"). I Produced all the performance and backing music 4 years in a row. Music was Produced for choreography with 40 dancers, a choir and a full band on stage: