Trevor Charles Rabin (/ˈ r eɪ b ɪ n / ; born (1954-01-13 )13 January 1954) is a South African rock musician and composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a variety of artists. In 1972, he joined the rock band Rabbitt, which joyed considerable success in South Africa, and released his first solo album, Beginnings. In 1978, Rabin moved to London to further his career, working as a solo artist and a producer for various artists including Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1981, Rabin gained promince as the guitarist in the progressive rock band Yes from 1983 to 1995. His first album with the group, 1983's 90125, which was developed mostly from his own demos, remains their best-selling album, helped by the US number one single Owner of a Lonely Heart. After Big Gerator (1987) and Union (1991), Rabin produced Talk (1994) and left the group after its tour. During his time in Yes, Rabin acquired American citizship.
Rabin became a prolific film composer and has since scored over forty feature films, most notably his frequt collaborations with producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
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He has won numerous awards, including elev BMI Awards. He took a short break from scoring to record his fifth solo album, Jacaranda (2012), and in 2016 to tour and record with Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman. In 2017, Rabin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Into a family of musicians. His mother, Joy, was a painter, ballet dancer, actress, and classical pianist, and his father, Godfrey, was a lawyer, musician, conductor, and the lead violinist in the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. The two met during their service in the South African army tertainmt division.
His paternal great-grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew who was a cantor and his grandfather, Gershon Rabinowitz, was a kosher butcher who arrived in South Africa in the late nineteth ctury.
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Rabin attded Parktown Boys' High School in Johannesburg and took up the piano at age six. He recalled, Pushed by my parts, I had two lessons a week and practised an hour a day for twelve years, whether I liked it or not, as did my brother and sister.
For several months Rabin studied arrangemt, orchestration, and conducting from Walter Mony, a professor at the University of Johannesburg in preparation to be a conductor, but he decided to pursue a career in rock music.
At sixte, Rabin was discovered by a local record producer and became a session musician, playing a variety of styles including jazz, fusion, country, classical, conga, and kwela.
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Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Beatles and Jimi Hdrix as early influces. At ninete, Rabin took a mandatory year of military conscription in the South African Army by serving in its tertainmt division, arranging its big band, performing in a rock group, and did outside session work at Gallo Studios.
He said, I used to go into what was called the garrison. I would just go there, find a little corner and literally sit for hours practising the guitar ... although I would always play the piano.
In 1972, Rabin reunited with his bandmates in Conglomeration to form the rock band Rabbitt with drummer Neil Cloud, bassist Ronnie Robot, and singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Duncan Faure. Their first single, released in 1972, was a cover of Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull.
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Later that year Rabin received a SARI Award for his production work on the album and Rabbitt received their second award for Best Contemporary Music Artist.
Rabin also produced and arranged Margaret Singana's album Where is the Love (1976). His career as a session musician included his two albums released under the pseudonym Trevor Terblanche, organised by producer Rob Schroder and released on a budget record label.
In 1977, Rabin recorded and released his first solo album, Beginnings, for RPM Records. It was recorded in approximately six and a half weeks in Johannesburg. He recalled: I don't think I ever left the studio at that time. I virtually lived and worked there around the clock.
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Rabin played all instrumts except the drums, for which he used session player Kevin Kruger. Also in 1977 Rabbitt agreed to a distribution deal with the US label Capricorn Records, but they were unable to tour abroad due to the international disapproval of South Africa's apartheid policies and restrictions on South Africans obtaining visas. The situation became a catalyst for Rabin to leave the country.
He had scored his first feature film by this time, the 1978 blaxploitation film Death of a Snowman (later rereleased as Soul Patrol). Rabin recalled: We stuck a sheet up on the wall and I wrote the score ... I still hav't watched it.
He was couraged to move by music trepreur Ivor Schlosberg, who hired Rabin to kick start the glish branch of his production company, Blue Chip Music, and become its first producer.
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By July, Rabin had struck a recording deal with Chrysalis Records which, in September 1978, reissued his debut solo album under the name Trevor Rabin.
The album was remixed at Wessex Sound Studios in London and released with some new tracks and in a differt track order.
Billboard magazine gave a positive review: An impressive outing marked by a rock style that invites comparisons to Boston at times or a Tom Petty with explosive keyboards and guitars.
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In 1979, Rabin released his second solo album, Face to Face. He promoted the album with a UK tour as an oping act for guitarist Steve Hillage. Rolling Stone criticised the record for its hook-ridd ballads but still gave his first two albums good ratings for their technical qualities. In the same year, he co-produced Wild Horses, the debut album by Wild Horses. In 1980, Rabin played the guitar and co-produced Chance by Manfred Mann's Earth Band with Manfred Mann.
Recorded at Konk Studios in London, Rabin provided lead vocals, guitars, and keyboards while using various musicians to contribute, including drummer Simon Phillips, bassists Jack Bruce and Mo Foster, keyboardists Mann and John Bundrick, and Chris Thompson and Noel McCalla on additional vocals. Following its release, Rabin severed ties with Chrysalis as he felt the label did little to promote the album. During this time, Rabin played guitars on Runner and a rdition of Redemption Song by Bob Marley for Manfred Mann's Earth Band's album Somewhere in Afrika (1983).
In 1981, Rabin moved to Los Angeles upon the couragemt from Geff Records A&R man John Kalodner, and began to develop material for a fourth solo album for the label with drummer Frankie Banali and bassist Mark Andes.
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During this time, David Geff also put him in contact with musicians that wt on to form the supergroup Asia. Rabin attded an early rehearsal, but felt his songs were not suitable for the group which led to the label dropping him.
This proposed rock supergroup with Rabin, singer and bassist John Wetton, drummer Carl Palmer, and keyboardist Rick Wakeman never came to fruition. Wakeman claimed he refused to sign a recording contract out of principle after the label was prepared to sign them without listing to any of their music.
Rabin th st a tape of his new songs to various labels, including Clive Davis at Arista Records who praised his vocals but deemed his songs unsuitable for the Top 40 format.
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The group fell through, yet Fair offered Rabin a solo deal which was declined after Rabin decided to work with bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White, formerly of the progressive rock band Yes after his demos were discovered by producer Mutt Lange and Phil Carson of Atlantic Records.
In late 1982, Rabin, Squire and White formed Cinema which included original Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye, and recorded 90125 with former Yes singer Trevor Horn as producer. Based mostly on Rabin's demos, the album displayed a more commercial and pop-orited direction, much differt than their progressive rock-themed albums in the 1970s. During the mixing stages in mid-1983, former Yes singer Jon Anderson returned to sing on the album which led to the group becoming a reformed line-up of Yes. Rabin was uncomfortable with the decision, feeling the new music did not represt what the band became popular for and wished for the album to be judged as its own.
Released in 1983, 90125 remains the band's highest selling album with three million copies sold in the US alone, helped by its lead single Owner of a Lonely Heart, one of Rabin's songs, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.
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Yes toured the album in 1984 and 1985, performing over 100 concerts worldwide which included two headline spots at the inaugural Rock in Rio festival. The tour was delayed to start after a woman hit Rabin's midsection wh she jumped into a swimming pool. This collision ruptured the Yes guitarist's sple and required emergcy surgery. Rabin is featured on the concert film 9012Live, released in cinemas to coincide with the live
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