Greg Landau Explained

Greg Landau is an American, San Francisco-based record and video producer, and an instructor of music and Latin American Studies focused on the social movements that produced revolutionary music and art.[1]

He has produced eight Grammy nominated records and has produced over 80 CDs and numerous film scores including serving as Music Supervisor of the film La Mission. He produced the album "Songs from La Mission".[2] [3]

Early life

Landau's parents are poet Nina Serrano and filmmaker Saul Landau.[4] He was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in San Francisco's Mission District. He co-founded Round Whirled Records with Camilo Landau and Round World Media along with his sister Valerie Landau. He worked with his father and Haskell Wexler on many documentary films in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Music career

During the 1980s, Landau toured internationally as a guitarist and tresero with the Nicaraguan Nueva Canción group, Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and Mancotal, and shared stages with Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque, Amparo Ochoa and Nicomedes Santa Cruz in music festivals and concerts across Latin America and Europe. He lived and worked in Nicaragua in the 1980s before returning to the US in 1991.

Media production

Landau has produced work with PBS, Disney, Sony, Warner Bros., CNN, LucasFilm, Six Degrees Records, McDonald's and StarMedia. As Executive Producer at Starmedia,[5] he has produced videos with Christina Aguilera, Carlos Santana,[6] Los Lobos, and Sub-Comandante Marcos. He co-founded Round World Music with Robert Leaver, who owned an eclectic music store in San Francisco. http://www.getthebeat.com/about.html.[7] [8]

He has produced eight Grammy-nominated albums: Carlos "Patato" Valdes's Ritmo y Candela and Ritmo y Candela II in 1996 and 1998,[9] and Peru Blue with Pamela Rodriguez in 2006.[3] [10] [11]

He has worked with artists including Buena Vista Social Club's Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, Susana Baca, Bobi Cespedes,[12] Dr Loco, Pete Seeger, Omar Sosa,[13] John Santos, Pancho Quinto, Quetzal,[14] Carne Cruda,[15] Los Mocosos, Maldita Vecindad, poet Piri Thomas,[16] and David Byrne's record label Luaka Bop. Landau, Babatunde Lea, and John Greenham composed and produced "The African Diaspora Suite" in 2005 for a permanent installation in the newly built Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.[17]

He composed and produced the film score for Haskell Wexler's 2006 documentary film, Who Needs Sleep[18] and Peter and Benjamin Bratt's "La Mission", which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.[19] He produced Salve a Bahia then Gente! for the Brazilian group SambaDa in 2009, who say he made their work “more fun, more work, more intense.”[20] [21] He also produced work for Mexican singer and songwriter Arturo Ortega. His most recent work was producing an album called Mondongo (Sept. 30, 2015) with La Cuneta, and previously a CD with Mexican rockers Maldita Vecindad, titled Circular Colectivo, that debuted with a splash in Mexico[22] In 2011 he produced the CD, Calma, for Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, that was nominated for the Latin Grammys in the Instrumental Music Category.

He served as music supervisor for the HBO documentary "Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution" directed by Jon Alpert.[23]

Teaching

Landau received a doctorate in Communication from the University of California, San Diego.[24] He teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz[24] and City College of San Francisco,[25] and he researches the role of music in contemporary societies.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UC Santa Cruz - Latin American and Latino Studies - Directory - Greg Landau . 2010-01-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923145325/http://lals.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=61 . 2009-09-23 . dead .
  2. "Songs from La Mission"
  3. Web site: Greg Landau. Greg Landau. 2016-12-02.
  4. News: Moe . Doug . Following activist parents footsteps . 20 July 2021 . The Capital Times . 1 July 2003.
  5. http://europe.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=6357{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  6. Web site: Case Study: StarMedia Brings Santana to the Web. 20 October 2000. Steaming Media Global. 24 January 2010.
  7. News: Greg Landau . Navas . D. . Latin Jazz Network . 24 January 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081230142824/http://www.latinjazznet.com/interviews/archives/pdf/greg_landau.pdf . December 30, 2008 .
  8. Web site: Round World Media team. Round World Media. 24 January 2010.
  9. News: 'The Right Stuff': the many sides of San Francisco Bay Area producer, Greg Landau.. https://web.archive.org/web/20121102234227/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20525941.html. dead. 2 November 2012. 1 April 2008. Latin Beat Magazine. 24 January 2010.
  10. Latin Leaders. Colombo. Anthony. Ricardo Companioni . 21 October 2006. Billboard. 24 January 2010.
  11. Web site: LALS lecturer produces album for Latin Grammy-nominated artist. 30 October 2006. Currents. UC Santa Cruz. 24 January 2010.
  12. News: Bobi Cespedes: the cuban earth with a beat: singer Bobi Cespedes updates traditional Afro-Cuban prayers and so her debut outing for San Francisco's Six Degrees Records. 1 February 2003. Latin Beat Magazine. 24 January 2010.
  13. Web site: DO (featuring Omar Sosa and Greg Landau). Six Degree Records. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101129171010/http://sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=DO_%28featuring_Omar_Sosa_and_Greg_Landau%29. 29 November 2010. dead.
  14. News: Quetzal. Lechner. Ernesto. April 2002. Vibe. 24 January 2010.
  15. http://mixonline.com/recording/tracking/band-profile-carne-cruda/ Mix Magazine
  16. Book: Hernández, Carmen Dolores. Puerto Rican voices in English: interviews with writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1997. Piri Thomas. 0-275-95809-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=zMN8PibySHIC&pg=PA183.
  17. News: Faces of Africa create a tapestry of all humanity. A new museum traces threads of the diaspora. Hamlin. Jesse. 25 November 2005. San Francisco Chronicle. 24 January 2010.
  18. Web site: La Mission. . 19 January 2009.
  19. News: Who Needs Sleep?. McCarthy. Todd. 26 January 2006. Variety. 24 January 2010.
  20. News: Get funky with SambaDa at the Blue Lamp. Miglieta. Halley. 7 January 2010. Sacramento Press. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715223554/http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/20254/Get_funky_with_SambaDa_at_the_Blue_Lamp. 15 July 2011. dead. dmy-all.
  21. News: Sambada's New Album "Gente!" and Release Party Dates. 14 January 2010. All About Jazz. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100116133221/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=47965. 16 January 2010. dead. dmy-all.
  22. Web site: sht.mx 208.80.153.24. sht.mx. 2020-02-18.
  23. Web site: Greg Landau. Greg Landau. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161202165617/http://www.greglandau.com/music-for-film-and-video. 2016-12-02. 2016-12-02.
  24. Web site: Greg Landau. Latin American & Latino Studies. UC Santa Cruz. 24 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20090923145325/http://lals.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=61. 23 September 2009. dead. dmy-all.
  25. News: Cinefest honors Greg and Saul Landau. February 2005. City Currents. Marketing and Public Information Office of City College of San Francisco. 24 January 2010.

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