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Desmond Child

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Desmond Child

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American songwriter and producer

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Desmond Child, born John Charles Barrett in 1953 in Gainesville, Florida, is an American and Hungarian record producer, singer, composer, and songwriter. He began his work period in 1975 and is associated with genres including glam metal, rock music, pop music, and hard rock. Child is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is represented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

His notable works include "Livin' on a Prayer," "Kings and Queens," and "The Desmond Child songbook." He also released the album "Under the Covers." Child performs using his voice and speaks English. He has been referenced by 796 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Livin' on a Prayer
  • Kings and Queens
  • The Desmond Child songbook
  • Under the Covers

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Gainesville, Florida, USA

Known for

  • Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro — Self2013
  • The Next GAC Star2008
  • Class Act — Self2006
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest1975

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1953

Discography

Member of

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11,326
Total plays
58,248

Tags

AORrockmelodic rockdesmond childsoftrock

Desmond Child (born John Charles Barratt, October 28, 1953 in Gainsville, Florida) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. For nearly three decades, songwriter/producer Desmond Child has reigned as one of music's most successful creative forces. His list of accolades includes Grammy awards, 70 Top 40 singles, and songs that have sold over 300 million albums worldwide. His collaborations include Bon Jovi <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi

via Last.fm · Desmond Child

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

    · 1994 · cited 52,083x

  2. Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

    · 2011 · cited 14,493x

  3. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,260x

  4. T-coffee: a novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment 1 1Edited by J. Thornton

    · 2000 · cited 5,977x

  5. Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

    · 2003 · cited 5,446x

via Crossref · CC0

Music

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Gallery (2)

Available in 29 languages

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via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0