Martin Kierszenbaum

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Martin Kierszenbaum (also known by his stage name Cherry Cherry Boom Boom ) is an American songwriter and record producer and the founder of Cherrytree Records . He produced and wrote songs for tATu and Alexandra Burke , among others, and worked with Lady Gaga .

Kierszenbaum was born as the son of two Argentinian scientists. At the age of 10 he started taking piano lessons and wrote and composed his first songs. While in college he played in a band called Maroon before working for PolyGram after college . Some time later he worked for Interscope Records . For the Italian tenor Alessandro Safina, Kierszenbaum arranged the broadcast of a concert recording on US television. The concert was broadcast a month after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and did not attract much attention. Safina was more successful in the Netherlands and was able to sell 250,000 copies of his albums and singles there. Together with Trevor Horn , Kierszenbaum produced tATu's English-language debut album in 2002. He traveled to Japan as part of the album promotion to get an artist there to publish a Japanese-language cover version of tATu's All the Things She Said . This version was then played in various places in Japan, so that tATu's album 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane became better known and was sold over 1.7 million times in Japan alone. Because of these successes, the Chairman of Interscope , Jimmy Iovine, granted him his own record label, which he called Cherrytree Records in reference to his name . In 2005 Kierszenbaum worked again as a producer for tATu, this time for the two albums Dangerous and Moving and Ljudi Inwalidy .

The Cherrytree Records label now has artists such as LMFAO , Natalia Kills and Tokio Hotel under contract. The first great success was celebrated with Leslie Feist's "The Reminder", the song was used for an iPod advertisement and sold 370,000 times in the USA alone.

Kierszenbaum released several tracks with Lady Gaga , including Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) and Christmas Tree . He also worked on songs by Far East Movement , Space Cowboy and Colby O'Donis .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Snow: Interview - Martin Kierszenbaum. (No longer available online.) Tokiohotelamerica.com, archived from the original on August 19, 2011 ; accessed on July 20, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tokiohotelamerica.com
  2. ↑ Dale Kawashima: Interview with Martin Kierszenbaum, Chairman of Cherrytree Records, President of A&R Pop / Rock at Interscope Records and Head of International Operations for Interscope-Geffen-A & M. Songwriteruniverse.com, accessed July 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Sales of 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane ( Memento from April 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME Kierszenbaum, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century