Albhy Galuten
Albhy Galuten is an American technology executive and futurist, Grammy Award-winning record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and conductor.
Career
Musical career
Galuten attended Berklee College of Music.Galuten's record productions include the soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease," the Eric Clapton recording of "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Samantha Sang, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Jesse Ed Davis, Titanic Love Affair and the Bee Gees. He also formed a production team with Barry Gibb and Karl Richardson under the name Gibb-Galuten-Richardson.
Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt. He is also credited with playing the first synthesizer in reggae.
His U.S. number one singles include "You Should Be Dancing," "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive," "Night Fever," "Too Much Heaven," "Tragedy," and "Love You Inside Out" by the Bee Gees; "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb; "Grease" by Frankie Valli; "Woman in Love" by Barbra Streisand; and "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton.
Other hit singles include "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door", "Love So Right", Guilty, "What Kind of Fool", "Emotion", "I Can't Help It", "Heartbreaker", "Chain Reaction", "Eaten Alive", "Eyes That See In the Dark"