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Mike Perjanik is a New Zealand-born musician, record producer, composer, arranger and bandleader who became well known in Australia from the late 1960s for his work on pop and rock recordings, and as a composer, arranger, bandleader and producer of music for film, television and advertising. He is of Croatian descent. ==New Zealand career== Perjanik grew up in the New Zealand North Island town of Dargaville. While attending Dargaville High School he joined The Spotlights, an instrumental band formed with fellow students Doug Jerebine (guitar) and Barch Sevren (drums). They entered a talent quest at the Auckland Town Hall and came third. The group expanded to five, with Ken Lawrie replacing Sevren, and Roy Calkin (guitar) and Ray Mayall (bass) joining. Although largely self-taught as a keyboard player, arranger and composer,〔(debbiekruger.com – APRAP – Mike Perjanik )〕 Perjanik's skills soon made him a prominent figure on the thriving New Zealand music scene of the mid-1960s. After moving to Auckland in 1963 he joined local group (The Embers ) and encouraged his friend Doug Jerebine to follow him; Jerebine eventually joined Perjanik in The Embers after a short stint in the popular band The Keil Isles. When The Embers split up, Perjanik took some of the members to form his own group, The Mike Perjanik Band, which became the leading session group on the Auckland recording scene between 1964 and 1966. They also worked as the backing band for many popular New Zealand solo artists including Tommy Adderley, whom they backed on The Dinah Lee Spectacular, Dinah's farewell tour of New Zealand before her move to Australia.〔(New Zealand Music – Mike Perjanik Band )〕 Perjanik began writing music and his songs were recorded by New Zealand pop singers of the day including Dinah Lee; he also arranged music for Ray Columbus and toured with visiting international performers like Gene Pitney. One of the Perjanik Group's first sessions was backing a new singing duo discovered by Viking Records boss Ron Dalton; the duo, Sue and Judy Donaldson (who were childhood friends of La De Das guitarist Kevin Borich) were renamed by Perjanik as The Chicks; The Mike Perjanik Group backed them on their debut single "Heart of Stone"/"I Want You To Be My Boy" and in 1966 they also backed The Chicks on their single "The Rebel Kind". Perjanik discovered another talented female singer while he was playing at a hotel. Impressed by her powerful voice Perjanik informed Ron Dalton of his discovery and she was soon brouight to the Viking studio to record "Tumblin' Down", which was released under the singer's new stage name Maria Dallas. Perjanik played an important part in launching the career of vocalist Allison Durbin. They first worked together when Durbin was backed by Perjanik's band in the studio and they subsequently began a relationship. Durbin was soon performing as the band's featured singer and in October 1966 they travelled to Australia for a residency at Sydney's Coogee Bay Hotel, before moving to Sammy Lee's prestigious Latin Quarter club in May 1967. After nine months with the band, Durbin left to pursue a solo career; she subsequently scored several hit singles in Australia, was named as Australia's "Queen of Pop" and became a prominent recording and TV performer in the 1970s. The Mike Perjanik Group recorded their own single in 1967, "We Can Make It"/"My Girl", made for HMV Records (NZ), which was released in both Australia and New Zealand. The vocals were performed by Mickey Leyton, a little-known but often-heard singer who became one of Australia's most in-demand session vocalists in the 1960s and '70s. Around 1969 Mike formed a new band called The Mike Perjanik Complex, which released another single on EMI-Columbia, "She Never Smiles Anymore"/"I'm Gonna Love You". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Perjanik」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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