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Did you know that Bob Norton is a world famous musician's musician?
Musicians in over 100 different countries buy his music. Check out:
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Who Are The Sophisticats?
Bob "Notes" Norton and Leilani Chandler
Bob "Notes" Norton
- Instruments Played
- All saxophones, flute and wind synthesizer
- Doubles on keyboard synthesizers, guitar, bass, drums and percussion
- Vocals
- Lead, Harmony and/or Background
- Range = baritone
- Other
- Composer, Arranger, Copyist, Musical Sequence Programmer
- Published Music Book Author
- Musical Software Author; Style Disks and Fake Disks for Band-in-a-Box and Styles for Microsoft Songsmith
- Recording Experience
- Motown Records, Parkway Records, TK Records
- First call session musician with many independent recording studios
- Television
- Appeared on: MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, and CATV.
- Also appeared in commercials for major cruise ship and local night club advertisements
- Education
- Pompano Beach High School, Broward Community College, Berklee School of Music, and private instructors in Florida, L.A., Michigan, Jamaica and Puerto Rico
- Highlights
- Named The Best Saxophonist In The State by the Florida Bandmasters Association
- Biography listed in Who's Who in Entertainment, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest
- Also listed in the Biographical Centre of Cambridge England's Dictionary of International Biography, Edition XXIII, Outstanding People of the 20th Century and International Who's Who of Information Technology
- Performed with or opened for: Little Anthony and The Imperials, The Association, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Blood Sweat and Tears, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Marvin Gaye, The Kingsmen, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Seger, Diana Ross and The Supremes, and too many more to list here
- Other
- Owns and writes software for Norton Music, the #1 producer of Band-in-a-Box aftermarket products in the world
- Has been featured in Keyboard Magazine, Electronics Musician Magazine, Music and Computers Magazine, The Micro Computer Journal and many other trade publications
- Charter member of the International Wind Synthesis Association
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Leilani Chandler
- Vocals
- Lead, Harmony and/or Background
- Range = alto
- Instruments
- Guitar and Buchla "Thunder" Tactile MIDI Controller (state-of-the-art synthesizer)
- Doubles on Keyboards, Guitar and Percussion
- Other
- Music Copyist, Music Transposer, and Music Calligrapher
- Recording Experience
- Independent studios, and radio commercials
- Television
- Appeared on: MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, and CATV.
- Also appeared in commercials for major cruise ship and local night club advertisements
- Highlights
- Performed in the USA, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, 4 Foreign Countries and 9 Cruise Ships
- Winner of local and regional performance contests in awards
- Bronze medalist dancer
- Other
- Graduated college with an Art degree. Has good working knowledge of the visual side of performing which includes lighting, set design, choreography, costuming, and other artistic effects that make "show business"
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