Mardin, Arif

Mardin, Arif
▪ 2007

      Turkish-born American popular music producer and record-company executive (b. March 15, 1932, Istanbul, Turkey—d. June 25, 2006, New York, N.Y.), as a producer and arranger at the Atlantic Records label, was one of the architects of the “Atlantic sound” of the late 1960s and a major force in making the careers of such diverse popular musicians as the Young Rascals, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, the Bee Gees, and, later, Queen Latifah and Norah Jones. He was especially identified with the “blue-eyed soul” phenomenon—white performers whose music was coloured with the soul music of black musicians. Mardin traveled to the United States in 1958 on the first Quincy Jones scholarship to study jazz at the Berkelee School of Music in Boston. Under the wing of fellow Turk Ahmet Ertegun, cofounder of Atlantic Records, in 1963 Mardin joined his brother Nesuhi Mardin at Atlantic as an archivist and thrived at the company, making a career that lasted more than 40 years. Mardin's work in pop music and jazz was honoured with several gold and platinum albums; he won 11 Grammy Awards and earned (1990) induction into the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. He retired as senior vice president of Atlantic in 2001.

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