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Jan Hammer
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Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer
Key facts
- Born
- Jan Hammer , ( 1948-04-17 ) 17 April 1948 (age 78) , Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Genres
- Jazz fusion synth-pop pop rock
- Occupations
- Musician composer record producer
- Instruments
- Keyboards drums synthesizer keytar
- Years active
- 1968–present
- Website
- janhammer .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Family name
- Hammer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Mother
- Vlasta Průchová
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Educated at
- Berklee College of Music
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Award
- Grammy Awards
- Genre
- pop rock
- Instrument
- piano
- Official website
- www.janhammer.com
- Image
- Jan Hammer 2 - 1977.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-04-17
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- name in native language
- Jan Hammer
- member of
- Mahavishnu Orchestra
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- number of viewers/listeners
- 18772039
- social media followers
- 34400
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Hammer ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦamɛr]) (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-American musician, composer, and record producer. He rose to prominence while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the early 1970s, as well as with his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the 1980s television program Miami Vice. He has continued to work as both a musical performer and producer.
Hammer has collaborated with some of the era's most influential jazz and rock musicians such as John McLaughlin, Jeff Beck, Billy Cobham, Al Di Meola, Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Stanley Clarke, Tommy Bolin, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, John Abercrombie and Elvin Jones. He has composed and produced at least 14 original motion picture soundtracks, the music for 90 episodes of Miami Vice and 20 episodes of the television series Chancer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jan Hammer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.