Michael Case Kissel


Michael Case Kissel was an American music producer and engineer notable for working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on his Total Body Workout, as well as projects with Ringo Starr, Sting, Parliament-Funkadelic, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, the Pointer Sisters, Sean Paul, the Backstreet Boys, the Four Tops, Nas and Los Lobos, among many others.

Background

A prolific successful producer and songwriter, Kissel was known for working with many other artists, signed and unsigned; Kissel also founded KMA Music, a Francis Manzella-designed mixing and tracking facility in the Brill Building, located in New York City's Times Square.
Kissel's work in movies and recordings has put him in the music business trenches with Sting, Kurt Vonnegut, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason and drummer Babatunde Olatunji. Working with Olatunji completed a circle, as both Olatunji and Kissel were discovered by John Hammond, the A&R man who found and produced Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, George Benson, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He has his own work listed in the album Steal this Disc by Ryco records.
Kissel's later projects included writing songs with Jimmy Norman, Teddy Richards, Sean Harkness, and BananaToons/EMI writing team Sean Hosein & Dane Deviller.

Death

Michael Kissel died in early May 2009 due to a rare form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Notable work

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