Tony Visconti

Anthony Edward Visconti born April 24 1944 is an American record producer musician and singer Since the late 1960s he has worked with an array of performers His first hit single was T Rexs Ride a White Swan in 1970 the first of many hits in collaboration with Marc Bolan Viscontis lengthiest involvement was with David Bowie intermittently from the production and arrangement of Bowies 1968 single In the Heat of the Morning London Bye TaTa to his final album Blackstar in 2016 Visconti produced and occasionally performed on many of Bowies albums Viscontis work on Blackstar was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album NonClassical and his production of Angelique Kidjos Djin Djin received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album