Who is arif mardin

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In May Mardin retired as senior vice president at Atlantic. Norah Jones had disagreed with the initial producer of her debut, so Mardin was brought in to finish her album Come Away With Me, which, when released in early , went on to sell 18m copies. Mardin won four Grammy awards for Jones' album, including best producer he had previously won in Mardin also produced Jones' follow-up album, Feels Like Home.

When asked what made a hit, Mardin replied that a song needed to be "musically correct, sincere, and commercial". The reason for his longevity he said was "a combination of looking forward and also appreciating and loving the good things in the past. You always should appreciate the history of music. There's a lot to learn from [it]. Arif Mardin. Hugely successful record producer whose lush sound rescued Aretha Franklin and Norah Jones.