Reggie Hamilton
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Reggie Hamilton is an American
session bass guitar
player born in New York City
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Growing up in a musical New York household, Hamilton received a guitar at age five from his mother. He soon grew attracted to the sound of the lower end, and switched to bass guitar; acclaimed New York bassist Kim Clarke was his first teacher. Hamilton later took up acoustic bass and gained much experience playing in jazz and R&B clubs. At age 19, he was working for bandleader Michael Pedicin Jr. as a house bassist in two Atlantic City, N.J., orchestras.
Hamilton declined a Philadelphia Music Academy scholarship to study double bass with Neil Courtney of the Philadelphia Orchestra and to study composition with Dennis Sandole. He continues to study double bass to this day, with Vincent Pasquier of the Paris National Orchestra.
After moving to Los Angeles, Hamilton was introduced to jazz legend George Duke and legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, both of whom embraced Hamilton like a younger brother (Hamilton has often referred to Clarke in particular as his mentor). Due in part to the invaluable tutelage of Clarke and Duke, Hamilton quickly amassed a substantial discography and touring resumé. He has played and recorded with artists as diverse as Tina Turner
, Luther Vandross
, Boyz II Men
, Whitney Houston
, Eros Ramazzotti
, Gladys Knight
, Johnny Hallyday
, Enrique Iglesias
, Randy Newman
, Bette Midler
, Aaron Neville
, Doc Powell
, Seal
, Tiziano Ferro
, Barbra Streisand
, Natalie Cole
, Sylvie Vartan
, Warren Zevon
and many others. Hamilton also has a long list of impressive film and television credits.
[himself]
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player born in New York City
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Growing up in a musical New York household, Hamilton received a guitar at age five from his mother. He soon grew attracted to the sound of the lower end, and switched to bass guitar; acclaimed New York bassist Kim Clarke was his first teacher. Hamilton later took up acoustic bass and gained much experience playing in jazz and R&B clubs. At age 19, he was working for bandleader Michael Pedicin Jr. as a house bassist in two Atlantic City, N.J., orchestras.
Hamilton declined a Philadelphia Music Academy scholarship to study double bass with Neil Courtney of the Philadelphia Orchestra and to study composition with Dennis Sandole. He continues to study double bass to this day, with Vincent Pasquier of the Paris National Orchestra.
After moving to Los Angeles, Hamilton was introduced to jazz legend George Duke and legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, both of whom embraced Hamilton like a younger brother (Hamilton has often referred to Clarke in particular as his mentor). Due in part to the invaluable tutelage of Clarke and Duke, Hamilton quickly amassed a substantial discography and touring resumé. He has played and recorded with artists as diverse as Tina Turner
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
, Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
, Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are the most successful R&B group of all time, having sold more than albums worldwide. In the 1990s, Boyz II Men found fame on Motown Records as a quartet, but original member Michael McCary...
, Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
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, Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Ramazzotti
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, Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight
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, Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday
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, Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
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, Randy Newman
Randy Newman
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, Bette Midler
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, Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville
Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States along with four platinum-certified albums...
, Doc Powell
Doc Powell
Doc Powell is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was born and raised in Spring Valley, New York. He attended college at University of Charleston....
, Seal
Seal (musician)
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...
, Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro is an Italian pop singer. He reached notoriety in 2001 and during his career he has also sung in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.-Childhood and early beginnings:...
, Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
, Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
, Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
, Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
and many others. Hamilton also has a long list of impressive film and television credits.
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