John Capek is an Australian and Canadian musician and songwriter from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The author of more than 1,500 songs, including those performed by Rod Stewart, Cher and Bonnie Raitt. Capek led the Canadian Composer-Songwriter Association and the Canadian Composer-Songwriter Hall of Fame, and in 2005 founded the Department of Song Music at the Royal Toronto Conservatory of Music .
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| Date of Birth | November 26, 1946 (72 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Prague |
| A country | Australia Canada |
| Professions | composer , musician |
| Instruments | keyboards |
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Biography
John Chapek is a native of Prague, where he was born in 1946 in the family of a pianist. His mother was one of the surviving prisoners of Auschwitz . When the boy was three years old, his family moved to Melbourne (Australia). As a child, John learned to play the piano. His idols of this time were Little Richard , Ray Charles and Chuck Berry . After playing for some time in local rock bands, Czapek and friends founded Carson in 1970, which later became one of the most popular blues bands in Australia. After graduating from the Royal Melbourne Technological University in 1971 with a degree in chemical engineering, Chapek began teaching. Leaving the Carson group, he performs in these years in the groups King Harvest, Flite and Hanagan.
In 1973, Capek moved to Toronto (Canada). In Canada, he writes songs and accompanies popular local artists such as Mark Jordan , Ian Thomas , Dan Hill , Dianna Brooks , Ken Tobias , Amy Sky and The Good Brothers and Downchild . Having worked with Jordan, who composed the words for his songs, Chapek moved to the United States in 1979, where he composed music for Rod Stewart , Joe Cocker , Diana Ross and Manhattan Transfer . As a keyboard player, he collaborates with producers Umberto Gatica and John Boylan, including releasing Indaba's first own album in 1991.
Returning to Canada in 1995, Chapek nonetheless continues to write music for American stars: Rod Stewart, Cher , Bonnie Raitt , also collaborating with popular Canadian singer Amanda Marshall . He was director of the Canadian Composer-Songwriters Association and the Canada Composer-Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2005, he became one of the founders of the Department of Song Music at the Royal Toronto Conservatory of Music .
Creativity
John Chapek is the author of music for more than 1,500 songs and a number of television series. His work is distinguished from the works of other composers of his era by complex harmonic constructions more characteristic of the Tin Pan Alley period.
Chapek's biggest success was the song Rhythm of My Heart, co-authored with Mark Jordan, in 1991, included in Rod Stewart's platinum album Vagabond Heart . As a single, the song rose to 5th place in the central American hit parade Billboard Hot 100 [1] . Dan Hill's Can't We Try song rose to sixth place on this chart [2] . Other апapek’s hits include Joe Cocker’s Have A Little Faith, released in 1994, and the song Take Me Home from the Swept Down Fire ; Promises from the 1996 album Amanda Marshall ; and Love So High from Cher's 1999 album, Living Proof . Czapek’s songs were featured in the films Cocktail (1988), Silencer (1992) and Perfect Storm (2000). In the Czech Republic, his songs were performed by Karel Gott and Helena Vondrachkova .
Notes
- ↑ Rod Stewart: Awards (AllMusic.com)
- ↑ Dan Hill: Awards (AllMusic.com)
Links
- Official site
- James Hale . John Capek (The Canadian Encyclopedia)