William Orbit

William Mark Wainwright (15 December 1956 – 23 July 2026), nicknamed and known professionally as William Orbit, was an English musician and record producer. With a career spanning four decades, he sold over 200 million recordings worldwide of his own work, his production and song-writing work.[1][2] Orbit was also a recipient of multiple Grammy Awards, Ivor Novello Awards and other music industry awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orbit

• In 1980, Orbit teamed up with electronic musician Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert to form the electronic/synth group Torch Song... There they recorded two albums and four singles, the most successful being the dance chart hit "Prepare to Energize", which was featured in the film Bachelor Party.[7][8][9] Orbit and Mayer also composed the soundtrack to the ice hockey movie Youngblood, starring Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, and recorded "White Night", written by colleague Rico Conning of The Lines, which was used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
• Bassomatic was another of Orbit's group projects. The band recorded house music in the 1990s. The band included vocalist Sharon Musgrave and rapper Steve Roberts, also known as MC Inna Onestep among others. Bassomatic's first album was 1990's Set the Controls for the Heart of the Bass, the title track derived from Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".
• Collaborations and productions included Madonna, Etienne Daho, Prince, Belinda Carlisle, Britney Spears, Mel C, Pink, U2, Katie Melua, Ricky Martin, Beth Orton, Sarah McLachlan, Queen, The Joy Formidable, Robbie Williams, All Saints, Nitzer Ebb, Kraftwerk, Harry Enfield and Sugababes.[20] When working with Beck, the two of them wrote a song for Pink, "Feel Good Time", which Orbit then produced for the soundtrack for the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
• In 2013, Orbit worked with Britney Spears and will.i.am on the album Britney Jean, with fellow songwriters Ana Diaz and Dan Traynor with whom he wrote and produced the track "Alien".
• Inspired and encouraged by music executive Rob Dickins, Orbit's first commercial release in the classical music sphere was Pieces in a Modern Style. It was originally released in May 1995 on Orbit's N-Gram Recordings label, and then again in 2000 by Warner Music in the UK and Europe, and on Maverick in the U.S. The album reached No 2 in the UK album charts. The first single release from the album was Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and a trance remix of the track by Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten was hugely successful.