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Trevor Charles Horn, CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in northeastern... England. Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists. He won a Grammy Award for producing "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal. As a musician, he has had chart success with the bands The Buggles, Yes and Art of Noise. He also owns a significant stake in the recording company ZTT Records, Sarm Studios and a music publishing company, Perfect Songs. The three are combined under the corporate umbrella of SPZ. Trevor Horn began his professional career as a session musician in the late 1970s, including playing on the television show, Come Dancing. Most notably, he played for disco star Tina Charles and her producer Biddu, whose backing tracks was an influence on Horn's early work. One of the other members of her backing band was keyboard player Geoffrey Downes. Horn and Downes formed The Buggles in 1978, in which Horn played bass, guitar and percussion as well as providing vocals, while the female vocalist was Linda Jardim .
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