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Joel Diamond produced the songsforcharities.com theme song, "Dreams Come True", with vocals by Charlie Williams. He also produced A Much, Much Greater Love (performed by Laura Branigan ) and I Believe in Miracles, (performed by Benny Mardones).
Joel is a 2x Grammy Award nominated producer and recently won the 2010 Star Maker Visionary Award, which he accepted on stage with his two newest stars, Athene Noelle and Charlie Williams. Diamond is single-handedly responsible for the phenomenal success of David Hasselhoff and The Five Browns, who dominated Billboard Magazine’s Classical Charts for 3 years, is about to do it again with a new generation of superstars applying his amazing talent and visionary abilities.
He has recently been the subject and winner of three independent, fan-driven website competitions that voted him to be the next American Idol judge. Now that JLO and Steve Tyler have locked that up, Diamond is in pre-production to produce his own very unique talent search show. As he said at the Malibu Music Awards, “This is what I love to do".
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Benny Mardones is an American pop singer and songwriter who is best known for his hit single "Into the Night", which hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 and again in 1989. Mardones began his career as a songwriter. He has written songs for people like Brenda Lee and Chubby Checker. He used to demo the songs he wrote and someone suggested that he record his own songs. Since that time he has written and recorded over 100 songs.
Due to the success of "Into the Night," Curb Records signed Mardones and he recorded "Into the Night '89." The track appeared on his self-titled release (known as the "Blue Album" by his fans).
Not long after that, Mardones appeared on a Showtime tribute to Roy Orbison, alongside such luminaries as Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash and K.D. Lang. Elvis Presley's band was the house band for the evening. When Mardones came on stage to sing "Running Scared," few people knew his name, but when he finished the song, he received a standing ovation.
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Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control". Branigan is also remembered for the Top 10 "Solitaire," and for the number-one Adult Contemporary hit "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", as well as four other US Top 40 hits.
Branigan also contributed songs to notable motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning Flashdance soundtrack (1983), the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984), and the Baywatch soundtrack (1994), as well as having songs featured in the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series.
Her signature song "Gloria" stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, at the time a record for a female artist. The song holds a place in the top 100 singles of both 1982 and 1983.
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