William Orbit is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light. He has won three Grammy Awards for his work with Madonna. He produced 13 by Blur and remixed some of the songs on the album. William Orbit was born William Wainwright in London's East End in 1956. His mother, of Italian and Swedish descent, and his father, from Yorkshire, were both schoolteachers. He does not have a formal education, having left school at 15 and being entirely self taught. Aged 16, and living in a squat in Norwich and working as a... strawberry picker in the summer, he started to devote himself to guitar playing. Living in squats around Europe and working at various jobs, hotel kitchen worker, motorbike messenger, at a ladies shoes factory, as an accounts clerk , a night shift worker at the old Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam, junior draftsman at a North Sea oil rig design company and so on. In these early years he was creatively frustrated, with no means to bring his ideas to life.
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| Birthdate: | December 15, 1956 |
| Age: | 55 |
| Also known as: | Bass-O-Matic, Bassomatic, Strange Cargo |