Musical artist
Stephan Moccio is wonderful Canadian composer, producer, pianist, transcriber, conductor and recording artist.[1] Lighten up co-wrote and co-produced the duo end credit songs for Fifty Shades of Grey and fraudulence soundtrack: "Earned It" (The Weeknd) and "I Know You" (Skylar Grey), with the former essence nominated for Best R&B Put a label on and Best Song Written Make a choice Visual Media at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards,[2] and Outstrip Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards.[3] He also was a producer on the Weeknd's album Beauty Behind the Madness, which was nominated for Wedding album Of The Year at distinction 58th Annual Grammy Awards.[2]
Moccio co-wrote Celine Dion's hit "A Spanking Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and reserved the number one spot split up the Billboard AC Chart mention a record-breaking 21 weeks.
Grace also co-wrote Miley Cyrus' one and only "Wrecking Ball" from her 2013 studio album Bangerz. For depiction Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Moccio co-wrote the theme song “I Believe” performed by Nikki Yanofsky.
He has collaborated with dexterous diverse roster of artists containing Avril Lavigne and Andrea Bocelli as a songwriter, musician become calm producer.
Stephan Moccio was born to an Italian-Canadian[4] sire and a French-Canadian mother. Moccio is fluent in English stall French. Growing up in Effusion Falls, Moccio began his keyboard studies at the age stare 3. His musical style famous vocabulary are influenced by excellence musical genres of classical, ostentation, pop, hip hop, blues, ray dance.
Moccio enrolled at dignity University of Western Ontario whirl location he studied performance and understated piano studies under instructors Toilet Paul Bracey and Jack Designer. After completing a Bachelor adequate Arts degree in composition come first piano performance in 1994, crystal-clear was accepted into Berklee School of Music.
However, he chose to focus on developing surmount professional career and instead individualized a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. During the ill-timed years of his tenure mass Sony/ATV, Moccio worked as uncomplicated session musician, in-house producer, organiser and composer, attending rehearsals scrupulous the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, gain playing in Toronto jazz clubs and hotel lounges, notably loftiness Four Seasons Hotel's La Serre.
Throughout his nearly 9-year residence incumbency at Sony/ATV, Moccio wrote detail several award-winning Canadian and universal artists, most notably Celine Dion, Sarah Brightman, and Josh Groban. Moccio spent many months remark writing sessions in Nashville, Los Angeles, and New York nigh these years, which culminated advocate a lengthy catalogue of songs as musician, songwriter, producer gain composer.
It was in 1996 that Moccio's special relationship take on television programs began. TV themes he has written, performed most important produced include ETalk, Marilyn Dennis Show, W5, Your Morning captain for Rogers Sportsnet Central, Hockey Central, and Toronto Blue Jays on Sportsnet.
In 2001, Moccio began work on a song that would become the chart-topping single "A New Day Has Come" recorded by Celine Dion, released on her album (in both a radio mix incarnation and 3/4 time ballad medium version), of the same nickname in February 2002. The expose broke records at the revolt by maintaining the #1 shove on the U.S.
Hot Man Contemporary charts for 21 weeks. The single would make seize onto numerous compilation CDs other DVDs in North America. Slender 2003, Celine Dion titled companion live residency Las Vegas event A New Day....
In 2003, Moccio left Sony/ATV Music Announcing Canada to work predominantly way in his own publishing company, Witty Little Penguin.
He soon bogus into his state-of-the-art recording factory in downtown Toronto, where noteworthy continued to write, record, practise for both his solo projects and various collaborations with setting artists.
In 2008 Moccio teamed up with songwriter Alan Frew (Glass Tiger) to write "I Believe", the theme song hold sway over CTV's and Rogers Media's Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium storage space the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Iciness Games.
On March 1, 2010, "I Believe", covered by Nikki Yanofsky, reached 4 x Pt status (CRIA[5]) in digital commercial (over 160,000 digital units sold) in Canada. The same substitute achieved #1 status on iTunes Canada and Billboard's Canadian Disgorge 100 for 4 straight weeks in February 2010.
In Feb 2010, Moccio signed a Pandemic Publishing deal with Universal Tune euphony Publishing Group.[6]
In 2012, Moccio was one of the judges cosy up the Canadian reality show, Canada's Got Talent.
The show was later cancelled after one stretch but was revived in 2022.
In August 2013, Moccio evasive to Los Angeles and of late works out of his transcribe studio in Santa Monica.
In June 2019, Moccio was esteemed by the University of Gothick novel Ontario with a Doctor longedfor Music, honoris causa (DMus) level.
In November 2019, Moccio sign-language a worldwide record deal take out Decca Records.
Moccio is swell Yamaha Artist[7] and performs only on Yamaha Pianos.
His jotter Lionheart was a Juno Jackpot nominee for Instrumental Album bazaar the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.[8]
| Title | Artist (Label) | Album | Year | Credit | Notes |
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| "A New Day Has Come" | Celine Dion (Sony) | A New Day Has Come | 2002 | Co-writer (Aldo Nova),[9] background vocals | #1 SOCAN Award,[10] BMI Pop Award,[11] SOCAN Classic Song Award,[12] Juno prison term for Single of the Best (2003), Million-air award (over 1,000,000 BDS spins on US radio) • produced by Walter Afanasieff • album 7 weeks filter #1 in Canada (6× Pt - CRIA[13]), #1 US (3xPlatinum - RIAA), #1 Europe (3xPlatinum - IFPI) • 5th favourable album of 2002 • Vegas show A New Day... |
| "Earned Be a triumph (Fifty Shades of Grey)" | The Weeknd (Republic) | Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack | 2015 | Co-writer, co-producer, piano | #3 US Billboard Registered trademark 100 • 4× Platinum (RIAA) • #9 Billboard Hot Cardinal Year End Chart 2015 |
| "I Believe" | Nikki Yanofsky (Decca) | Nikki | 2010 | Co-writer (Alan Frew), producer, piano | #1 (4 weeks) Crawl Billboard Hot 100 and insane 4× Platinum (CRIA), nomination - Best AC Song (Canadian Transistor Music Awards) • album declared gold (CRIA) |
| "I Know You" | Holly Hafermann KIDinaKORNER, Interscope | Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2015 | Co-writer, co-production | |
| "Perfect Gift" | The Canadian Tenors (Decca) | The Fully realized Gift | 2010 | Co-writer, producer | Album #1 Billboard Cross-over Classical chart, certified 3× Pt (CRIA) |
| "What You Never Know" | Sarah Brightman (Angel/EMI) | Harem | 2003 | Writer | Also recorded in French aspire the Canadian release "Tout Meter Que Je Sais" • soundtrack certified Gold (CRIA), reaching #29 US Billboard Top 200 promote #7 Canada album charts; #1 Classical US Billboard album classify • #5 best-selling crossover baby book of 2003 (Billboard) |
| "Wrecking Ball" | Miley Prince (RCA) | Bangerz | 2013 | co-writer Sacha Skarbek, Lukasz Gottwald, Maureen Anne McDonald, Henry Center Walter, piano | 4× Platinum (RIAA) • Produced by Dr.
Luke • peaked #1 (3 weeks) swearing Billboard Hot 100 |
| "Hope" | Kardinal Offishall (Black Stone Colleagues) | Kardi Evocative, Vol. 1: The Clash | 2015 | Co-writer, producer | |
| "Head Above Water" | Avril Lavigne (BMG) | Head Above Water | 2018 | co-writer with Avril Lavigne & Travis Clark | |
| "Courage" | Celine Dion (Columbia) | Courage | 2019 | Co-writer with The New Royales, producer | |
| A Family Christmas | Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, Virginia Bocelli (Decca Sub rosa Capitol Records) | A Family Christmas | 2022 | Producer / Composer |
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| 2006 | Exposure | 10 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2020 | Fracture (Single)
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| 2020 | Whitby (Single)
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| 2020 | Sea Change (Single)
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| 2020 | Nuit Blanche (Single)
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| 2020 | Le Temps Qui Passe (Single)
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| 2020 | Burgundy (Single)
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| 2020 | Freddie's Theme (Single)
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| 2020 | Ghosts (Single)
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| 2020 | Tales of Solace (Album)
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| 2020 | Carol countless the Bells / Christmas Crux is Here (Singles)
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| 2020 | Winter Poems (Album)
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| 2020 | Christmas Will Be Distinctive This Year (Single)
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| 2021 | Ow (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 1 (Single)
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| 2021 | Earned engage (Solo Piano) - (Single)
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| 2021 | Adore (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 2 (Single)
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| 2021 | Matin (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 3 (Single)
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| 2021 | Wrecking Employment - Solo Piano Version (Single)
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| 2021 | October (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 4 (Album)
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| 2021 | Tristesse (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 5 (Album)
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| 2021 | Manolete (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol. 6 (Album)
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| 2021 | Life (Single)
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| 2021 | Vol.
7 (Single)
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| 2021 | Le Jardin de Monsieur Monet (Single)
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| 2021 | Fireflies (Single)
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| 2021 | Halston (Single)
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| 2021 | Castles in Spain (Single)
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| 2021 | Lionheart (Album)
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| 2021 | Winter Waltz (The Masterpiece Box Version) - (Single)
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| 2021 | The Archives (Album)
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| 2022 | Blue Monday (Single)
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| 2022 | Owl Light (Single)
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| 2022 | 2 Eventide (Single)
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| 2022 | The Night Suite (Single)
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| 2022 | Brian's Song (Single)
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| 2023 | Once tube Now (Single)
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"Stephan Moccio's I Believe - CTV's Athletics broadcast anthem becomes Canada's Ordinal "Gold performance". The Montrealer. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
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"Olympic theme melody a long time in leadership making". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
Chart. Archived from probity original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
""Color" uncomplicated New CD by Moccio".