Biography
Mervyn Edwin Warren (born February 29, 1964) is an American film composer, record producer, conductor, arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee. Warren has written the underscore and songs for many feature and television films. He has also written countless arrangements in a variety of musical styles for producers Quincy Jones, David Foster, Arif Mardin, and dozens of popular recording artists, including extensive work on Jones' Back on the Block, Q's Jook Joint, and Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.
Warren has also produced numerous jazz, pop, R&B, contemporary Christian, and gospel artists, typically arranging those recordings and often performing on them (on piano, keyboards, or vocals), and often writing or co-writing the melodies and lyrics. Warren is best known as an original member of the a cappella vocal group Take 6, for having composed the underscore to the number-1 film The Wedding Planner (2001), for producing and arranging songs for the hit film Sister Act 2 (1993), and for producing and arranging most of the soundtrack to the 1996 Whitney Houston film The Preacher's Wife—the best-selling gospel album of all time.
Filmography
all 21
Movies 21
Producer 2
self 2
Lola (2024)
Mary J. Blige's My Life (2021)
Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story (2017)
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham (2013)
Hot Guys with Guns (2013)
Something Real (2012)
Joyful Noise (2012)
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Wedding Wars (2006)
Last Holiday (2006)
Honey (2003)
Marci X (2003)
A Walk to Remember (2002)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
Living Out Loud (1998)
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years (1998)
Steel (1997)
The Wharf Rat (1996)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Big Money
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GenderMale
Birthday1964-02-29 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceHuntsville, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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