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Clinton Cerejo (Mumbai): Clinton Cerejo
is an Indian singer whose range of work includes playback
singing, vocal arrangements, musical arrangements, background
scores, music programming and production. Cerejo was born
into an academically inclined family with no known musical
background. His father was an engineer at L&T and
mother is a French professor. The prospect of doing a
desk job for the rest of his life was not very inviting
and Clinton opted to pursue a career in the music industry.
His family found this choice a bit radical and were skeptical
about it, but as he later put it "I guess they just
didn’t want to see me starve". During his younger
days, he was influenced by great producers such as Quincy
Jones, Trevor Horn, Arif Mardin, Stevie Wonder, Babyface,
Hugh Padgham, Peter Gabriel, Roland Orzabal, Roy Thomas
Baker. Clinton married Dominique, who was his college
friend. Dominique Cerejo is an upcoming singer. Her melodious
rendition of Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein from Rock On!! has
been hugely popular.
Cerejo has worked with Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy,
Lezz Lewis, Ranjit Barot & Louis Banks. A. R. Rahman,
while working in an adjoining studio, happened to overhear
one of Clinton's vocal arrangements for a song and when
they met a month later, A. R. Rahman offered Clinton the
opportunity to work with him. Soon his work was noticed
by many and other projects followed. Eventually Clinton
went on to work with many leading Indian music composers
performing various roles in the music department.
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