Music Supervisor/Project Manager, The SongHunters (www.thesonghunters.com) Owner/Creative Director, Diamondigital Media / Diamondisc Audio (www.diamondiscaudio.com)
Engineer/Producer/Music Supervisor Doug Diamond has been writing, recording, producing, mixing and mastering music for most of his life. He has over 25 years of experience in the industry. A former staff engineer at world-famous Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles, he graduated with honors from the recording program at The Grove School of Music (1990) and completed his Music Business Master Certification from the Berklee College of Music between 2010-2012.
In his Ocean Way days, Doug worked with many top recording artists such as Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, The B-52's, Meatloaf, Michael Bolton, Mick Fleetwood, Michael Jackson and many others, as well as with some of the top record producers in the world such as T-Bone Burnett, Don Was and film composer Hans Zimmer. Doug was also involved in a number of Hollywood films such as "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle," "The Power Of One," several Disney films, and Levi's Jeans TV commercials.
Since then, he has had the opportunity to work on thousands of independent artist's projects from all walks of life, from all over the world, in most musical genres, as well as projects for major labels, major publishing companies, indie music companies, TV production companies and many others. Clients include: Julie True, Carman, Kellie Pickler, John Elefante/Kansas, Jars of Clay, Little Big Town, Kim Hill, Deepak Chopra/The Chopra Center, Lynn Anderson, Liz Anderson, Gary Morris, Eric Silver, Randy Archer, Craig Morgan, Candy Coburn, Juice Newton, Buzz Cason, Billy Swan, Jim Weatherly, Templeton Thompson, Carol Channing and many more.
As a composer, Doug has written and produced the theme and background music for two nationally broadcast PBS television series: "Hands On - Crafts For Kids" and "Scrapbook Soup" and has numerous songs with various music libraries and publishing companies. He has also composed music for a number of kids video game apps.
Doug is part of The SongHunters (www.thesonghunters.com) music supervision team, together with music supervisors and authors Dave Hnatiuk & David Weiss. They provide music supervision services for films, television, advertising, corporate videos, web, and video games.
Doug is a voting member of The Recording Academy and the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) as well as a BMI writer.
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