Brian Wayy is an Iranian-American
Emmy Award
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winning television composer, producer, songwriter and remixer.
[ At the age of 18 he signed a contract with ]MCA Records
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Pre-history
MCA Inc., a powerful talent agency and a television production company, entered the recorded music business in 1962 wi ...
and by 24 he toured with The Untouchables, opening for major acts like UB40
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, The Police
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, and Duran Duran
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. He remixed major artists such as Rod Stewart
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, Paula Abdul
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, The Doobie Brothers
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and produced Diana Ross
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, Stevie B, Corbin Bleu. After his recording career he got signed by Warner Bros. Television and started composing for TV shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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, Judge Mathis, TMZ, Extra, Bachelor
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Etymol ...
, The First Family, America's Court with Judge Ross, Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez.
In 2015 he partnered up with Masoud Fuladi and started an Electronic dance music project called MaWayy
MaWayy is an American-Iranian music duo from Los Angeles, United States and Bandar-e Anzali, Iran consisting of producers and DJs Brian Wayy and Masoud Fuladi. They are known for their Billboard charting songs "Wrong" and "Blame" and hosting ...
and released his first single "Wrong" in August 2017 under Teletunez's division HitTunez and Blanco Y Negro record label includes remixes by Joe Maz
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and Ayin. In May 2018 this song ranked No.42 on Billboard
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Dance Club Songs
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chart for three weeks. It became the No.1 record on WCPY "Dance Factory FM" station in Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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.Mediabase
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References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male songwriters
American television composers
People from Tehran
American television producers
American people of Iranian descent
Remixers
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