![]() ![]() in cellist Dane Little, violinist Charlie Bisharat, and harp ace Gayle Levant. To this, the producer added the secret ingredient, a trio of the top orchestral session artists in L.A. Working at the famed Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood, he started with an all-star core band: drummers Matt Chamberlain and Abe Laboriel Jr., the latter having just come off the road anchoring Paul McCartney's band bassist Chris Chaney came from Jane's Addiction in-d and guitarist Tim Pierce joined with credits ranging from Madonna to Dave Matthews and keyboard player Jamie Muhoberac has worked with The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Seal, My chemical Romance, and many others. ![]() The chance to bring all those worlds together in one project was a challenge he relished. Though as a producer he's best known for his rock work, he's had a greatly wide-ranging career and, he notes, was raised immersed in the classical world thanks to his opera-loving grandparents-Luciano Pavarotti was a family friend who would visit, drawn largely by his grandmother's cooking. I always find it on tour." To achieve this, Cavallo-the 1998 Grammy Awards producer of the year-devised a creative studio approach. And mainly, wanted to find the sweet spot of my singing voice again. "I wanted this to be soulful, wanted it to be righteous and dynamic and inspirational and energetic. "When Rob came out to Chicago he basically shared the same adjectives with me that I had in my head," Groban says. When he and Cavallo had dinner after a show in Chicago to discuss the possibility of working together, it was clear right away that they had the same things in mind. "I thought, This is the energy, the dynamic I want for my next record, the feeling I'm getting on stage,'" he says. The latter has also brought him a rising career in movies and television, with a hilarious recurring guest role on The Office, a sparkling part in the hit Steve Carrell/Julianne Moore film Crazy, Stupid, Love and as costar of the upcoming small-ensemble comedy Coffee Town. Those concerts were at turns playful and intimate-even in arena settings-and affectingly powerful, withemequal measures of musical virtuosity and spirited, spontaneouSempersonality. Any of the hundreds of thousands who saw his shows in support of 2010's Illuminations, in which his writing and ambition took full flower, knows what he's talking about. ![]() "The album was really sparked by an energy I had on the road," he says. Records chairman whose production credits cover Green Day's many groundbreaking albums, Goo Goo Dolls, Fleetwood Mac, and many others), Groban pushed himself to fully capture the spirit of his acclaimed concerts, fueled by his vibrant bond with legions of his fans, the famed Grobanites. Working for the first time with producer Rob Cavallo (the Warner Bros. And inspired choices of other's songs, from the Academy Award-winning "Falling Slowly" from the movie and Tony Award-honored spin-off Broadway musical Once to Stevie Wonder's "I Believe" through his continued explorations of the poetry of Spanish ("Un Alma Mas," featuring Cuban-born trumpet great Arturo Sandoval) and Italian ("E Ti Promettero," a duet with Italian star Laura Pausini), spotlight his singular talents as a masterful interpreter. The inspiring first single, "Brave," shows off his accomplished, personal songwriting as one of seven songs on the album he co-wrote. With his sixth album, All That Echoes, Josh Groban has at once built on the touchstone artistry that has made him a global pop star for more than a decade and expanded his ambitious reach into richly rewarding new territory. ![]()
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