| Intro | British record producer |
| Is |
Musician Record producer Composer |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type |
Business Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 8 July 1962, Germany |
| Age: | 58 years |
| Star sign | Cancer |
Yak Bondy (born 8 July 1962 as Jerk Bondy in Germany) is a London-based music producer, songwriter, and composer. Bondy has been professionally involved in the music industry since 1990, when he was a musical director for Lisa Stansfield’s world tour. Bondy works with the music licensing service, Hollywood Elite Music & Media in Los Angeles.
Career
Bondy worked as musical director on Lisa Stansfield’s first world tour which included an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. The tour ended with a performance at Rock in Rio 1991. Bondy worked as a music programmer with Indian musician A.R. Rahman on his 1997 studio album Vande Mataram. In 2000, Bondy was credited with keyboards and programming in Pokemon: The Movie 2000.
In 2004, Bondy had both producer and songwriting credits on the album Free Me, from former Spice Girl, Emma Bunton. One of the songs on the album co-written by Bondy, “Maybe”, debuted at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and later a remixed version rose to number 6 in the US on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play. Bondy also co-wrote and produced the song, “Just a Little Girl” with Amy Studt. The song rose as high as number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.
While Bondy’s most notable achievements were with Bunton and Studt, he has also worked with notable performers such as, Rachel Stevens, S Club 8 and S Club 7. Bondy is also credited on the 2004 album from Alexander Klaws, Here I Am. Klaws was the winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, a German, American Idol style show. Bondy works as a senior songwriting tutor at BIMM, in London
Discography
| Artist/album | Year | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Lisa Stansfield/Real Love | 1991 | Harmonica, keyboards, programming |
| M People/Renaissance | 1994 | Remix, production |
| Spice/Fred’s Bowling Center | 1994 | Composer, production, vocals |
| Maysa/Maysa | 1995 | Composer |
| Annie Lennox/Train In Vain; No More I love You’s | 1995 | Programming, remixes |
| Spice/Vario Bel Air | 1996 | Backing vocals, production |
| Mark Morrison/Who’s the Mack | 1997 | Production, remix |
| A.R. Rahman/Vande Mataram | 1997 | Programming |
| Billie/Honey to the B | 1998 | Backing vocals, keyboards, production, programming, vocoder |
| A.R. Rahman/Dil Se.. | 1999 | Remix programmer |
| Melanie C/I Turn to You | 2000 | Production |
| Madison Avenue/The Polyester Embassy | 2000 | Percussion,programming |
| Billie Piper/Walk of Life | 2000 | Arranged by(strings), keyboards, production, recorded by |
| S Club 7/Natural | 2000 | Programming |
| S Club 7/Sunshine | 2001 | Drums, keyboards, production |
| Holly Valance/Footprints | 2002 | Programming |
| Amy Studt/Just a Little Girl | 2002 | Production, keyboards, drums, bass, written by |
| Rachel Stevens/Funky Dory | 2003 | Keyboards, production, written by |
| Amy Studt/Misfit | 2003 | Production, written by |
| Amy Studt/False Smiles | 2003 | Keyboard, production, instruments, piano |
| Tymes 4/4 Story | 2003 | Production, written by |
| S Club 8/Sundown | 2003 | Production |
| Lisa Stansfield/The Complete Collection | 2003 | Keyboards, programming, harmonica |
| Emma Bunton/Free Me | 2004 | keyboards, production, written by |
| Alexander/Here I am | 2004 | Written by |
| Various Artists/Barbie Girls | 2005 | Composer |
| Emma Bunton/Life in Mono | 2006 | Written by, mixed by, production, instruments |
| Samuell Purdey/Musically Adrift | 2008 | Vocoder |
Filmography
| Program/type | Year | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Traffic/Documentary(film music) | 1988 | Drums, programmer |
| Dil Se…/movie | 1998 | Programmer |
| Pokemon: Power of One/movie | 1999 | Programmer |
| The Royal Variety Performance 2002/television special | 2002 | Arranger |
| I Dream/television series | 2004 | Composer |