{"id":58,"date":"2011-07-30T22:22:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:20:04","slug":"craig-j","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/the-band\/craig-j\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIG J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRODUCER, REMIXER, COMPOSER, SONGWRITER, LABEL OWNER &amp; MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Craig J Snider is a Composer, Producer, Remixer, Songwriter, Label Owner &amp; Multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his success as a Producer, Arranger and Keyboardist on a string of Remixes &amp; Album productions that have topped Billboard&#8217;s dance chart (27 Number One Hits!), including JT&#8217;s &#8220;What goes around\u201d, Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget About Us,&#8221; Kelly Clarkson&#8217;s &#8220;Walk Away&#8221;, and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s &#8220;Irreplaceable,&#8221;. This past year Craig Remixed &#8220;Birthday&#8221; for Katy Perry, &amp; &#8220;Turn up the night&#8221; for Enrique Iglesias both #1 records. He also scored films \u201cLife Lessons\u201d &amp; \u201cMy Mothers Idea\u201d by acclaimed Peabody award winning filmmaker Maria Fintzo. He also scored the highly acclaimed director Steve James\u2019 (Hoop Dreams and the Interrupters) new film \u201cHead Games\u201d. In December he scored May Tchao&#8217;s New film &#8220;Spilled water&#8221; which premiered In December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1998 Craig co-founded his critically acclaimed underground label, Uncommon Trax (uncommontrax.com). In addition to billboard success (Big Bang Theory &#8220;Do U Got Funk,&#8221; D. Ramirez &#8220;Get Your Freaque On,&#8221; Mantronik&#8217;s &#8220;77 Strings&#8221;) the label has successfully placed numerous songs from its catalog in commercials (Best Buy, Bank Of America, Becks), Television shows (Entourage, Moonlight, The L Word, The Hills, Sex in the City) &amp; Film (American Pie: Beta House, Save the Last Dance 2, Meet Bill).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Craig also has broad experience as a composer of original music for advertising and television. Craig has placed songs &amp; or composed music for television shows including: American Greed, The Voice, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, MTV Cribs, Passions, &amp; Sex and the City. In 2008 He Co-Founded Mix Kitchen Music Sound &amp; Mix (www.mixkitchen.com). His commercial credits include music for Nissan, ESPN, Blue Cross, Gatorade, BK, and McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Boston native (As a child having studied at New England Conservatory &amp; Berklee), Craig received a degree in piano and composition from Northwestern University. He received additional instruction from renowned recording artists Chic Corea, Jaki Byard, Keith Jarrett, Alain Swain, Michael Tilson Thomas and John Browning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visit Craig\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/craigjsnidermusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hebewonder\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2015March20Craig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2015March20Craig1.jpg\" alt=\"2015March20Craig\" width=\"900\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2015March20Craig1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2015March20Craig1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Craig J and David Cassidy on Good Day LA. March 20, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRODUCER, REMIXER, COMPOSER, SONGWRITER, LABEL OWNER &amp; MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST. Craig J Snider is a Composer, Producer, Remixer, Songwriter, Label Owner &amp; Multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his success as a Producer, Arranger and Keyboardist on a string of Remixes &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/the-band\/craig-j\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcassidy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}