John Reynolds (musician)
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John Reynolds is a record producer. He was the first husband of singer Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

; they have one child, Jake. Reynolds, formerly a drummer for Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

, met O'Connor and recorded her first album, The Lion and the Cobra
The Lion and the Cobra
The Lion and the Cobra is the 1987 debut album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. O'Connor, age 20 at the time, recorded the album while heavily pregnant with her first child....

. He has since been nominated by Q Magazine for Producer of the Year for O'Connor's Universal Mother
Universal Mother
Universal Mother is the fourth album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. It was released in 1994, and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.-Track listing:# "Germaine" – 0:38...

and has produced number one hits with Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey
Damien Dempsey is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk with contemporary lyrics to deliver social comment on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society.-Early life:...

, the Irish rebel singer. He produced the song 'The Ballad of Ronnie Drew' which went straight to number 1 in the single charts. He has recently recorded Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

, Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...

 and Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 for their July 2011 albums.
Reynolds produced the seventh Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

 album, Voila
Voila (album)
-Personnel:*Belinda Carlisle - vocals*Natacha Atlas - additional vocals on "Ma jeunesse fout le camp", "La Vie en rose", "Bonnie et Clyde" and "Des ronds dans l'eau"*Brian Eno - keyboards*Sagat Guirey - Flamenco guitar*Graham Henderson - accordion...

.
He has produced a new album Lifelines by Andrea Corr
Andrea Corr
Andrea Jane Corr is an Irish musician, songwriter and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon, and Jim...

in 2011.
John also produced the Emmy Award Winning album 'Music of Ireland'
(Welcome Home and Welcome to America) it is a two-part Public Television documentary series celebrating 50 years of contemporary Irish music, its impact on America and its influence throughout the world. Each program features exclusive interviews, intimate performances and archival clips from some of the greatest Irish artists of our time including: The Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, U2, The Cranberries, Celtic Woman, Riverdance, Sinéad O’Connor, Bob Geldof and many others.
Artists produced
Sinéad O'Connor - "Song to the Siren"
The Chieftains & Moya Brennan - "Lullaby for the Dead"
Damien Rice - "Under the Tongue"
Liam Clancy featuring John Sheahan - "The Parting Glass"
Orla Fallon & Moya Brennan - "Forgotten"
Glen Hansard - "High Hope"
Damien Dempsey - "Maasai Returns"
Andrea Corr - "Oh Brother"
Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny - "Blacksmith"
Paul Brady - "Dreams Will Come"
Shane MacGowan & Moya Brennan - "You're the One"
Anúna & Moya Brennan featuring Iarla Ó Lionáird - "Is Mise 'n Ghaoth/The Lass of Aughrim"

John has just completed an an album with Seun Kuti, son of Fela Kuti
This was co-produced with Brian Eno.
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