Michael Feinstein
b. Michael Jay Feinstein, 7 September 1956, Columbus, Ohio, USA. A singer, pianist and musical archivist, Feinstein was a boy prodigy, able to play all manner of show tunes by ear. His mother was an amateur tap dancer and his father a singer and sales executive. After attending high school in Columbus he worked as a piano salesman in California, where he discovered some rare acetate recordings by Oscar Levant. He returned them to the actor/pianist's widow, who secured him a job as archivist and personal assistant to two of popular music's all-time great songwriters, Ira Gershwin and Harry Warren. In the late 70s and early 80s, as well as cataloguing their material, Feinstein unearthed several alternative Gershwin lyrics that had never been printed. Through Gershwin he met the lyricist's god daughter, Liza Minnelli, and she opened a great many showbusiness doors for him. He also served as her accompanist, and played for other artists such as Rosemary Clooney, John Bubbles, Jessie Matthews, and Estelle Reiner.
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Albums
- (2008) The M.G.M. Album
- (2008) The Sinatra Project
- (2007) Isn't It Romantic
- (2007) Michael Feinstein Sings / The Hugh Martin Songbook
- (2006) Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin
- (2006) Hopeless Romantics
- (2006) Only One Life - The Songs Of Jimmy Webb
- (2006) Livingston And Evans Songbook Featuring Michael Feinstein
- (2006) Big City Rhythms
- (2006) Michael Feinstein With The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
- (2006) Romance On Film, Romance On Broadway
- (2005) Michael Feinstein Sings The Burton Lane Songbook, Vol. II
- (2005) Michael Feinstein Sings The Jerry Herman Songbook
- (2002) Anthology
- (1998) Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin
- (1995) Such Sweet Sorrow
- (1995) Michael Feinstein Sings / The Hugh Martin Songbook
- (1993) Forever
- (1992) Pure Imagination
- (1992) Pure Imagination
- (1991) Michael Feinstein Sings / The Jule Styne Songbook
- (1990) Michael Feinstein Sings / The Burton Lane Songbook, Vol. I
- (1989) The M.G.M. Album
Top Tracks
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Singing In The Rain
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- Pure Imagination
- Embraceable You
Related Artists
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- Harry Connick Jr.
- Michael Buble
- Frank Sinatra
- Tony Bennett
- Dean Martin
- Bobby Darin
- Norah Jones
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Diana Krall
- Jamie Cullum
- Josh Groban
- Bing Crosby
- Barry Manilow
- Clay Aiken
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Jane Monheit
- Rosemary Clooney
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
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