Biography: Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart is one of the most respected and trusted people in the music industry today. A prodigious producer of music, film and photography he is the "musician's musician", an all-round multi-media entrepreneur and, in Bob Dylan's words, "a fearless innovator". Dave Stewart's career spans the last 25 years, having achieved over 75 million album sales with Eurythmics' partner Annie Lennox. In 1999, the duo were honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits. Stewart is also known as one of the most prestigious British record producers, working with the biggest names in the music industry worldwide. Dave has won Best Producer four times, as well as numerous Grammys, MTV and Best British Songwriter award 5 times. Eurythmics embarked upon on a world tour during 1999 and 2000 and donated the proceeds to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Annie and Dave ended the millennium playing live in Greenwich London and played their way into 2000 with the whole world watching as they sang "Sweet Dreams" at midnight Greenwich Meantime. Dave and Annie were inducted into the UK Hall of Fame by Bob Geldof Nov. 2005 with Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mick Jagger and Sting all delivering speeches. Since 2000, Dave has written numerous songs with several other major artists including Bono, Bryan Ferry, Gwen Stefani, Anastacia and Shakira to name but a few. Dave is considered one of the great guitar players and has shared the stage stage with everybody from BB.King The Edge, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. If this wasn't enough, Stewart is also a highly-regarded artist and filmmaker. He has been active for several years in cinema, writing numerous film scores for Director's such as Robert Altman, Paul Verhoven, Ted Demme also writing and producing the title songs for many hit movies throughout the years. Along with close friend Mick Jagger Dave along with long time collaborator Mick Jagger wrote and produced the Score for Charles Shyer's movie Alfie starring Jude Law they won a Golden Globe for best original song as well as USA film critics award and World Music Soundtrack award. Dave produced the award winning documentary, Deep Blues and has directed many music promos. He has also written numerous scripts and his first feature film, "Honest", premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2000. Dave was Guest of Honour for the Opening Ceremony of Cannes Film Festival in 2002 at the "Why are you Creative" Exhibition. Stewart's work as a professional stills photographer has been well documented. He has worked on numerous major ad campaigns and magazine covers and lectured on creativity for the UK Government and the advertising industry. He has exhibited solo and in group shows at Paris Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum NYC and the Saatchi Gallery London. Stewart created with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen "The Hospital", a multi media creative centre in London's Covent Garden. Visit www.thehospital.co.uk In 2003, Stewart was approached by Nelson Mandela to help fight against the Aids epidemic. Mr. Mandela gave Stewart his prison number 46664 to use in some way and Stewart not only came up with a whole Global Campaign using the number for telephone donations but went on to write songs with Bono, Paul McCartney, Queen The Neptunes Anastacia and many others, then launched into organising the biggest concert ever staged in South Africa appearing on stage with Beyonce,Bono, Bob Geldof Queen Anastacia and longtime partner Annie Lennox. The concert went live to over 1 billion people. Oprah Winfrey devoted a week to this special event and the foundation is now fully established. Visit www.46664.com. Dave Stewart now resides in Los Angeles where he has a joint venture label with Interscope Records, a childrens cartoon being developed at Nickelodeon and two HBO series in developement.He has recently formed a partnership with Frank Nuovo (vice president of NOKIA design) and a partnership with Simon Fuller 19 Entertainment. Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart have launched a creative consultancy at www.deepstew.com. 2006 will see the launch of Stewart's new band with Kara DioGuardi Platinum Weird on Intersope Records.