Mike Elizondo

Michael A. Elizondo Jr. (born October 22, 1972 ) is an American record producer and musician. He was mainly made through collaborations with the rappers Dr. Dre and Eminem known. Elizondo is also a member of the Strip Search group .

Life

Elizondo was born in Los Angeles and learned to play the piano, saxophone and electric bass from childhood . In 1995 he met the Emmy Award winner Richard Wolf, through whom he got jobs as a studio musician . This is how Elizondo first came up with Dr. Dre in contact, for whom he worked increasingly from 1997. When Dr. Dre signed the still relatively unknown rapper Eminem , he offered Elizondo to work as a songwriter for his second album. The first song co-written by Elizondo to be released was The Real Slim Shady . The song was built around Elizondo's bassline.

At the same time he had the offer to join Linkin Park as a bass player , but after talking to Mike Shinoda he decided to continue working with Dr. Dre. The success of The Real Slim Shady helped Elizondo to further work, so he has also worked successfully outside of hip-hop with artists such as Pink or Nelly Furtado or the metal acts Mastodon and Avenged Sevenfold . The duo Dr. Dre / Eminem, however, remained loyal to him in the following years and produced and played instruments for associated artists such as 50 Cent or Obie Trice . In 2005, Elizondo was commissioned by Fiona Apple to revise the album Extraordinary Machine , which her label classified as "too uncommercial" . Together with Brian Kehew , he rebuilt the songs that had already been recorded on the basis of Apple's piano playing and voice.

He also produced the song Wunderkind for Alanis Morissette in 2005 for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The King of Narnia , which earned her a nomination for the Best Movie Song at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards . He was also involved in her album, which was released in 2007.

Web links

Mike Elizondo at Discogs (English)
Mike Elizondo in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Dale Kawashima: Top Writer / Producer Mike Elizondo Co-Writes Big Hits For Eminem, 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige. In: SongwriterUniverse Magazine. December 1, 2004, accessed April 19, 2016 .
↑ Linkin Park's Unknown Bass Player: Mike Elizondo. February 17, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
↑ Austin Scaggs: Fiona Talks "Machine". In: rollingstone.com. August 30, 2005, archived from the original on May 9, 2006 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 .
↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001551/awards
↑ Steve Baltin: Alanis Writing Memoir, album. In: Rolling Stone Magazine. January 13, 2006, archived from the original on April 28, 2007 ; accessed on October 26, 2014 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Elizondo, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Elizondo, Michael A. Junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American record producer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1972

[sowriter-1] Dale Kawashima: Top Writer / Producer Mike Elizondo Co-Writes Big Hits For Eminem, 50 Cent and Mary J. Blige. In: SongwriterUniverse Magazine. December 1, 2004, accessed April 19, 2016 .

[2] Linkin Park's Unknown Bass Player: Mike Elizondo. February 17, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .

[3] Austin Scaggs: Fiona Talks "Machine". In: rollingstone.com. August 30, 2005, archived from the original on May 9, 2006 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 .

[imdbaward-4] ttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001551/awards

[5] Steve Baltin: Alanis Writing Memoir, album. In: Rolling Stone Magazine. January 13, 2006, archived from the original on April 28, 2007 ; accessed on October 26, 2014 (English).