Mervyn Warren

5-time Grammy-Award winner and 10-time Grammy nominee Mervyn Warren is a highly accomplished film & TV composer, record producer, arranger, songwriter/lyricist, pianist, and vocalist. Equally adept at various styles, Merv’s work spans the genres of film scoring, pop, R&B, jazz, orchestral, classical, vocal, country, and more. One of the industry’s most sought-after producers, his credits read like a who’s-who of pop, R&B, jazz, and country and include Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Barbra Streisand, Rascal Flatts, Michael Bublé, Chicago, Queen Latifah, Al Jarreau, and Faith Hill, among many others. Merv has composed orchestral scores for many feature films – from comedy to drama to action – including the #1 film The Wedding Planner (Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey), the hit A Walk To Remember (Mandy Moore), and Honey (Jessica Alba).

He also produced and arranged most of the Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum soundtrack for the film The Preacher’s Wife (Whitney Houston) – one of the biggest-selling inspirational soundtracks of all time. Merv also composed the underscore and songs for the highly acclaimed film A Raisin In The Sun (Sean Combs, Felicia Rashad) –the first film made for television ever to be accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. Merv was recently selected by Quincy Jones to produce and arrange a song for the upcoming Quincy Jones project. Merv was an original member of Take 6, the a-cappella sextet that took the world by storm in 1988, recording two albums with them –one platinum, one gold. On those albums, Merv produced, co-wrote, and arranged most of the award-winning songs. With them he won four Grammy Awards, six Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards, and a Soul Train Award.

On his own, Merv earned an additional Grammy for the all-star Handel’s Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, as well as five additional Grammy nominations, a Dove Award (of three nominations), and two Gospel Music Workshop of America Awards, including one for Contemporary Producer of the Year. A native of Huntsville, AL, Merv was playing piano by age 5 and writing songs by age 10. In high school he formed a popular vocal group, and as a teenager, was regularly hired to arrange, play on, and sing on commercials and albums for local pop and country artists. He went on to earn two degrees in music, including a Masters degree in arranging.

FILM:
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The Price of Freedom
Producer: Walter T. Shaw

Lola James
Director: Nicola Peltz Beckham
Producer:  Will McCance

Big Money
Director: Ritchie Greer

Mary J Blige’s My life
Director: Vanessa Roth
Studio: Amazon Studios

Tazmanian Devil
Director: Solomon Onita Jr.
Producers: Frank Cohen, Adam Dietrich

From Zero to I Love You
Director: Doug Spearman
Producers: Rendell Bryce, Michael Busza

Long Time Coming: A 1995 Baseball Story
Director: Jon Strong
Producers: Tighe Arnold, Ted Haddock

Hot Guys With Guns
Director: Doug Spearman
Producers: Kelton Jones, Suzan Kaminga Jones

Joyful Noise
Director: Todd Graff
Producers: Joseph Farrell, Broderick Johnson

Marci X
Director: Richard Benjamin
Producer: Scott Rubin

A Walk to Remember
Director: Adam Shankman
Producers: Denise Di Novi, Hunt Lowry

The Wedding Planner
Director: Adam Shankman
Producers: Peter Abrams, Deborah Del Prete
Studio: Columbia Pictures

Steel
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Producers: Quincy Jones, David Salzman
Studio: Warner Bros.

Honey
Director: Billie Woodruff
Producers: Andre Harrell, Marc Platt
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TELEVISION:
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham
Director: Kelly Leon
Producers: Jim Bechtold, Philip K. Kleinbart

A Raisin in the Sun
Director: Kenny Leon
Producer: John M. Eckers
Studio: Sony Pictures Television

Wedding Wars
Director: Jim Fall
Producer: Michael Mahoney
Studio: A+E Networks

Pizza Time
Director: John Baumgartner
Producers: Steven Klein, Robyn Snyder

The Wharf Rat
Director: Jimmy Hutson
Producer: Paul Kimatian