Starr Parodi

Starr Parodi

Starr Parodi with her 1928 Steinway B which was used on the MGM scoring stage
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres Neoclassical, Pop, Jazz, Experimental, Soul, R&B
Occupation(s) Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Record Producer, Musician
Instruments Piano, Synthesizer
Years active 1989–present
Labels Sonic Doppler Records
Website www.parodifair.com

Starr Parodi (born Los Angeles, California) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, music director and pianist. She has won multiple BMI most performed music awards,[1] Key Art and Telly Awards. Her solo piano recording "Common Places" was awarded Solo Piano Recording of the Year by solopianoradio.com in 2007 [2] and in 2005 she received an RIAA Gold Record for her recording and updated arrangement of the "James Bond Theme".[3]

Composer, arranger and conductor

Starr, along with her husband/partner Jeff Eden Fair, has composed both themes and underscore for a wide variety of films, film trailers and television shows. A partial list of these projects includes: The Starter Wife - NBC Universal, The Division - Lifetime, G.I. Joe: Renegades - Hasbro, Transformers: Rescue Bots - Hasbro, Bert Stern: Original Madman - Motor Films, The Arsenio Hall Show - Paramount, The Eighteenth Angel - Rysher Films, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story - New Line Cinema, Maggie - Paramount. Film trailers include: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 - Warner Bros., The Last Samurai - Warner Bros., War of the Worlds - Paramount, GoldenEye - United Artists, Die Another Day - United Artists, Mission Impossible II - Paramount and many others.

The duo also composed the musical theme for the 1990s-era United Artists production logo.

In 2009 Starr became the first woman composer to have her work represented regularly at the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, California with over a quarter million audience members in attendance annually.

Noted for her energetic and exacting conducting style, Starr was selected to study with Jerry Goldsmith in his first BMI conducting master class. Starr has passionately conducted ensembles from 5 to 95 pieces in live orchestral, live television and studio recording environments.

Performing musician

In Los Angeles, Starr found herself playing piano and keyboards in various rock, jazz, gospel and soul bands, teaming up with members of Earth, Wind & Fire, The Temptations, Maze and Parliament-Funkadelic.

Comedian Arsenio Hall invited Starr to play keyboards on his late night show, The Arsenio Hall Show, in the show's house band The Posse. This garnered the young musician her early recognition and led to her performance at the Kennedy Center for the inauguration of President Clinton. Starr was a featured artist along with Bruce Hornsby, George Duke and Joe Zawinul at Keyboard magazine’s 20th anniversary concert (celebrating 20 of the world's top contemporary keyboardists).

Starr has performed as keyboardist alongside such artists as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Carlos Santana, Seal, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Madonna, Celine Dion, Al Green and many others.

Starr is an official Steinway Piano recording and performing artist.

Partial discography

Common Places: Piano Improvisations - 2006 (SoloPianoRadio.com CD Of The Year 2007)

  1. "Common Places"
  2. "For What It's Worth"
  3. "Albinoni's Adagio"
  4. "Kenya"
  5. "We Are Here"
  6. "Follow Me"
  7. "James Bond Theme"
  8. "Forgiveness"
  9. "Let It Be"
  10. "Covenant"

The Best of Bond...James Bond - 2002 (RIAA Gold Record)

  1. "James Bond Theme"

Change - 1991

  1. "Change" - 4:33
  2. "Something of Value" - 5:15
  3. "Kenya" - 5:20
  4. "Superstition" - 5:37
  5. "Serengeti Trail" - 6:27
  6. "The Honor System" - 4:41
  7. "Forever" - 3:27
  8. "Joyful" - 6:09
  9. "Covenant" - 6:31
  10. "Change" (Reprise) - 1:16

Personal

Starr is married to Jeff Eden Fair and together they have a daughter. Starr is the daughter of geothermal energy pioneer Roy Parodi and his wife Marcella Starr Parodi.

Trivia

Long before Starr was born, Starr's father, Roy Parodi was married to the daughter of the German ambassador to Mexico, Margarita Henkel - for whom the drink the Margarita has been rumored to be named at Hussong's Cantina in Ensanada, Mexico on October 7, 1941.

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0663250/awards?ref_=nm_awd
  2. ↑ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/parodi/from/rainmusic
  3. ↑ http://parodifair.com/?ml_portfolio=127
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