Ira Antelis - a life of music

“We Sing For Ukraine” » “We Have Loved” » a life of music ra ntels I A i Bio » “We Are Here” » Carnegie Hall Piano Albums » “The Sixty Project” » Commercials » “Be Like Mike” » “Ukraine, A Love Letter” » Patti LaBelle “Flame” » Marc Anthony “No One” » Movies & Television » Janis Joplin “Blues Down Deep” » Christina Aguilera & Enrique Iglesias “Celebrate the Future” Super Bowl 34 » Regina Belle » Dance For Life “As One” » Hubbard Street Dance Chicago “Love Infinite” » Brian McKnight, Gloria Estefan “Remember The Magic” » Urban Knights “Do You Still Think About Me?” » Cece Winans “No One” » Fallout Boy & Lupe Fiasco “Only the Bulls” » Jim Croce “A Nashville Tribute” » “Sweet Emotion: Songs of Aerosmith” » “Stand By Me” Feat. Sir the Baptist »
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Ira Antelis has been writing and producing music for commercials, records, theater, movies, dance, and television for over 40 years. Artists such as Marc Anthony, Patti La Belle, Christina Aguilera, B.B.King, Shawn Colvin, Regina Belle, have recorded or performed music he has composed. He has also composed jingles for most major brands including theme songs for McDonalds, Disney, and the well known “Be Like Mike” for Gatorade. He produced many tribute albums on the House Of Blues Label working with a variety of major artists such as Etta James, Taj Mahjal, Joe Walsh, Charlie Musselwhite, The Charlie Daniels Band, Lou Gramm, & Honeyboy Edwards, while doing so. During the early 2000s Ira was executive producer with Terrell Harris of a music television show titled “Raw TV” which ran in the Midwest on Fox. Many major music celebrities appeared. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago just premiered his piece “Love Infinite” choreographed by his longtime collaborator Randy Duncan. He also spent 10 years as music director for the famed advertising agency Leo Burnett.

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