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‘Wicked’ Music Producer Greg Wells on Going Big With the Soundtrack — and Hearing Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s Voices Merge Into One in Real Time
Greg Wells, the music producer for the 'Wicked' movies and soundtracks, talks about working with Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Stephen Schwartz.
Although most of Greg Wells ‘ professional life has involved producing or writing for big pop artists (including Adele, Katy Perry, OneRepublic & Timbaland, Twenty One Pilots and John Legend), he’s dedicated more of his time in recent years to working on films. I moved to Los Angeles from rural Ontario, Canada, on a Canadian government arts grant to study piano with Claire Fisher, this incredible musician who did all the string arrangements for Prince and really brought bossa nova to America, and another pianist named Terry Trotter, who played with Frank Sinatra and Larry Carlton for years. He was commenting on Jake’s song and a few other things, and then the last paragraph of his email to me in June 2022 was, “Oh, by the way, I’m putting together a small music team for the ‘Wicked’ movie that we’ve been working on for several years, and we’re ready to lock in and do it now.
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