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History: Don Was (born Don Fagenson on September 13, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American musician and a music and record producer. Fagenson graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year. A journeyman musician, he grew up listening to the Detroit blues sound and the jazz music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Using the stage name "Don Was," he formed the group Was (Not Was), making several albums in the 1980s before disbanding in 1993. However, the group has reunited for performing and recording, with two albums scheduled to be released in 2005. In 1989, Don’s
career was launched into the stratosphere when Bonnie Raitt’s
“Nick of Time” swept the Grammies. Over the next two decades,
Don worked with everyone from Jackson Browne and Bob Dylan to Willie
Nelson and the Rolling Stones. In 1995, Don Was earned a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year. He is the father of Eve 6 drummer Tony Fagenson. Film Credits at IMDB
Current credits:
Was completed producing THE ROLLING STONES new album in Paris for
Virgin and "You're So Vain" with MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY &
KATE HUDSON for the movie "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days".
He also completed producing a Christmas album with CARLY SIMON ,
producing HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH for Atlantic, one track with
THE CHIEFTAINS featuring ZIGGY MARLEY, a WENDY PAGE album, the BLACK
CROWES for V2 and the BARENAKED LADIES album, "Maroon"
which was certified platinum for Reprise.
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