2004 was a stunningly successful year with number one multi-platinum albums in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand:

Josh Groban – “All’Improvviso Amore”, co-written with legendary producer David Foster, featured on the album “Closer” which topped the Billboard Top 200 in January 2004. Currently it has reached quadruple platinum status in the USA and has sold over five million copies so far worldwide.

Il Divo – “Ti Amero (What Good is Love)”, co-written with Per and David and Matteo Saggese, went straight into the UK album chart at number one and sold over a million copies in six weeks. Among the top ten best selling UK albums of the year, it has achieved triple platinum status and is set to be released in all other territories in 2005.

Hayley Westenra – “Heaven”, co-written with “Lord of the Dance” composer Ronan Hardiman and “Dark Waltz” co-written with Matteo Saggese, featured on Hayley’s smash debut album which reached number seven in the UK album chart and achieved triple platinum status. It topped the chart in Australia and is the biggest album of all time in New Zealand where it went nine times platinum. It has sold over 1,500,000 copies worldwide.

Amici Forever – “Band of Brothers (Requiem for a Soldier)”, co-written with the late great Michael Kamen, featured on their debut album which has currently sold over seven hundred thousand copies worldwide. It was the second most successful classical crossover album in the USA for 2004 after Josh Groban. Their new record to be released in spring 2005 will feature five Frank Musker compositions.

Russell Watson – “ La Fiamma Sacra”, co-written with Ronan Hardiman, featured on his current album and went straight into the UK album chart at number seven.

Zucchero – His long awaited album of duets “Zu and Co” featured six songs co-written with Frank Musker. They include “Hey Man (Sing a Song)” with BB King,

“Pippo (Nasty Guy)” with Tom Jones, “The Flight” with Ronan Keating, “Wonderful World” with Eric Clapton, “Like the Sun (From Out of Nowhere)” with Macy Gray and “Senza Una Donna (Without a Woman)” with Paul Young. The album was number one all over Europe with over 1,500,000 copies sold to date.

Frank Musker is one of the most internationally successful and established British songwriter/lyricists.

He has consistently transcended musical and international boundaries, writing lyrics in English, Italian and Spanish and producing an extraordinary wealth of successful songs.

Some of these are-:

Air Supply’s “Every Woman in the World” - a million selling top five single in the U.S. for which he has won a BMI award for over two million radio plays. The Air Supply album and Greatest Hits album on which the song is featured sold over seven million records.

“Senza Una Donna” recorded by Paul Youngand Italy’s number one recording artist, Zucchero, was a top five single in twenty countries, including the U.K. The duet featured on both their albums and sold in excess of six million units worldwide.

“Too Much Love Will Kill You” , winner of the 1997 Ivor Novello award for best song musically and lyrically. Featured on Queen’s final album “Made in Heaven” which has sold over eight million units around the world. It was also a top three U.K. and international hit for Brian May on his solo album “Back to the Light”. The song is included on Queen’s “Greatest Hits Vol.III” album.

Frank’s musical versatility, experience and in depth knowledge of five languages has allowed him to collaborate with some of the world’s most important artists which include:

Gypsy Kings, Chaka Khan, Maxi Priest, Carly Simon, John Denver, Lucio Battisti, Milton Nascimento, Queen, Roger Daltry, Randy Crawford, Sister Sledge, Sheena Easton, The Three Degrees, Patty Austin, Level 42, Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, Dionne Warwick, Bette Midler, Bonny Tyler, Alan Parsons, Jeffrey Osborne, Jennifer Rush, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Four Tops, Billy Ocean, Claude Francois, Cher, The Ojays, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Miles, Zucchero, Luciano Pavarotti, Josh Groban, Hayley Westenra, Amici Forever, Russell Watson, Il Divo, the Opera Babes, Eric Clapton, Paul Young, Macy Gray, BB King, Ronan Keating, Tom Jones, Johnny Halliday, Stevie Ray Vaughan.

“The Rhythm is Magic” by Marie Claire D’Ubaldo which he wrote and produced stayed at number one in Italy for seven weeks and was featured in the smash Italian film, “Il Ciclione”.

He co-wrote seven songs on Zucchero’s “Greatest Hits” album including “Senza Una Donna”, “Diamante”, “Wonderful World”, “Mama” and “My Love”.

He co-wrote four songs with Robert Miles for his album “23am”. The first single, entitled “Freedom”, featured Kathy Sledge on vocals.

More recently he had a world-wide No. 1 with “Music Sounds Better With You” by Stardust – the biggest international dance record of 1998/1999.

In May 2003 Queen performed an Anglo-Italian version (with additional Italian lyrics by Zucchero) of “Too Much Love Will Kill You” at the Pavarotti and Friends concert for UNICEF at Modena, Italy. It was sung as a duet with Luciano Pavarotti and was a highlight of this star-studded event which was televised all over Europe to raise money for the children of Iraq.

At peak time on Christmas day 2004 UK national network ITV aired “The Little Reindeer”, a half hour animated film which featured the song “Time to Fly” co-written by Frank Musker and sung by new Sony recording artist Joseph McManners whose album is to be released in October 2005. The album features a Frank Musker, Matteo Saggese song based on a Beethoven piece entitled "Music Of The Angels".

A truly international composer/lyricist and producer, his songs are regularly translated and recorded by artists in Europe, the U.S.A., the Far East, Latin America and all over the world. He has more than thirty gold and platinum records to his credit so far and is responsible for record sales conservatively estimated at over eighty million to date.