Felix Weber
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Felix Weber (born December 1, 1960 in Hassfurt, Bavaria/Germany) is a German producer, songwriter and arranger.
At the age of 6 Felix started a professional classical piano training. When 14 he played in his first garage band and when 17 he toured with an American cover band through the US army clubs in Bavaria, performing for American soldiers stationed in Germany. In 1978 he produced his first record together with his songwriting partner Irmgard Klarmann at the "Galgenberg Studio" in Stuttgart, Germany. During studio work in Munich he met drummer/producer Todd Canedy whose production skills left a positive mark on Felix. Shortly after Felix started working in his own recording studio where he and his partner Klarmann penned many hit songs under the name Klarmann/Weber. In 1981 Felix became the keyboard player of the popular German band "Relax". During this time he made contacts with the record industry, which resulted in many cuts for popular German artists and Golden Records. In 1987 after six years playing with the band he left "Relax" and focused on his international songwriting career.
Felix was always fascinated with American music and so he began to compose exclusively for the American market, which brought him his first Billboard Top 40 hit in 1988 with singer Tracie Spencer ("Symptoms of True Love"). In 1989 Paul Anka recorded Felix' song "Turning my mind back to you" on his "Somebody loves you" Album, produced by Humberto Gatica. In 1990 Toni Braxton together with her sisters ("The Braxtons") released Felix' song "The Good Life". In 1992 Felix had his first #1 hit in the US with singer Chaka Khan ("Love you all my lifetime"). Khan's album "The woman I am" received a Grammy and Felix' song was awarded with the ASCAP award. Billboard Magazine called Weber and his partner the 'most successful German songwriters'. Over the next years more songs were recorded by artists like La Toya Jackson, Leo Sayer, La Bouche, Beverley Knight, Jennifer Rush, Kathy Troccoli, Canadian singer Sheree Jeacocke, Lory Bianco, japanese singer/songwriter Seiko Matsuda, Randy Crawford, Exposé, Nancy Wilson (a collaboration with his late friend and mentor Skip Scarborough (Earth, Wind & Fire, Anita Baker), Penny Ford (a co-production with American Idol judge Randy Jackson), saxophonist Boney James and Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi.
Weber moved to the USA in 2000 where he started a production company.
