Actor / Director Profile

Mervyn Warren, 5-time Grammy Award winner and 10-time Grammy Award nominee, is a highly accomplished film composer, record producer, lyricist, songwriter, arranger, pianist and vocalist. He's a five-time Grammy Award winner (with 10 nominations), and a seven-time Dove Award winner (with 10 nominations).Equally adept at various styles, his work spans many genres - pop, R&B, hip-hop, classical, orchestral, jazz, vocal, country, and gospel. His client roster (from Barbra Streisand to DMX and everything in-between) and his film scores (ranging from comedy to drama to action) speak for themselves.Merv was an original member of Take 6, the a-cappella sextet that took the world by storm in 1988. He sang with Take 6 from 1980 to 1991 and recorded 2 albums with them -one platinum, and the other, gold. On those albums, he produced, co-wrote, and arranged most of the award-winning songs. Together they won four Grammy Awards, six Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards, and a Soul Train Award.On his own, Merv earned an additional Grammy Award for the all-star recording, Handel's Messiah: A Soulful celebration, five additional Grammy nominations, an additional Dove Award (of two nominations), and two Gospel Music Workshop of America Awards, including one for Contemporary Producer of the Year.He co-produced with Babyface a Billboard No. 1 R&B hit - 'Last Night' by Az Yet; produced a Billboard Top Ten hit - 'I Believe In You & Me' (movie version) by Whitney Houston, from the Grammy-nominated, multi- platinum soundtrack to The Preacher's Wife; and penned a Billboard No. 2 Dance hit - 'The Power of One' for Donna Summer.Merv has written many arrangements for his mentors Quincy Jones and David Foster, ranging from Quincy's 'Back on the Block' and 'Q's Jook Joint' to feature film scoring to various records with Celine Dion, Brandy, Leann Rimes and many others.He currently divides his time between producing records and writing both underscore and songs for feature films, including the recent #1 hit, The Wedding Planner.