Mervyn Edwin Warren (born February 29, 1964) is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee. Warren has written the underscore and songs for many feature and television films and has written countless arrangements in a variety of musical styles for producers Quincy Jones, David Foster, Arif Mardin, and dozens of popular recording artists, including extensive work on Jones' Back on the Block, Q's Jook Joint, and Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.Warren has also produced numerous jazz, pop, R&B, contemporary Christian, and gospel artists, typically arranging those recordings, often performing on them (on piano, keyboards, or vocals), and often writing or co-writing the melodies and lyrics. Warren is best known as an original member of the a cappella vocal group Take 6, for having composed the underscore to the #1 film The Wedding Planner, for producing and arranging songs for the hit film Sister Act 2, and for producing and arranging most of the soundtrack to the Whitney Houston film The Preacher's Wife—the best-selling Gospel album of all time.
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Awards
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
Movies
Hot Guys with Guns, A Walk to Remember
Star Sign
Pisces
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
What About Love
2017
music producer: songs / musician post-production
From Zero to I Love You
musical director filming
Joyful Noise
2012
music arranger / music producer
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
2010
TV Special vocal contractor / vocalist
Super Bowl XLIV
2010
TV Special music arranger / music producer / musician / vocalist
Super Bowl XLIII
2009
TV Movie music arranger / vocalist
Dreamgirls
2006
music arranger
Last Holiday
2006
music arranger: songs / song producer
Marci X
2003
music producer
Down with Love
2003
vocal editor - uncredited
America: A Tribute to Heroes
2001
TV Special documentary music arranger
Six Feet Under
2001
TV Series music arranger: songs / song producer
The Wedding Planner
2001
music arranger - uncredited / music producer - uncredited / orchestrator - uncredited
Get Your Stuff
2000
music producer
The Next Best Thing
2000
musical director: funeral sequence - uncredited
Punks
2000
music producer
Living Out Loud
1998
music arranger: songs / song producer
54
1998
composer: additional music
Steel
1997
music producer
The Preacher's Wife
1996
music producer / music supervisor
Greatest Hits on Ice
1994
TV Movie playback singer
Renaissance Man
1994
music arranger / music producer
I'll Do Anything
1994
music arranger - uncredited
My Father the Hero
1994
music arranger: vocal arrangements / vocals
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
composer: additional score material / music adaptor: songs
Do the Right Thing
1989
music producer - uncredited
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hot Guys with Guns
2013
arranger: "Something To Shoot For" / performer: "Something To Shoot For" / producer: "Something To Shoot For" / writer: "Something To Shoot For"
Glee
2013
TV Series writer - 1 episode
A Thousand Words
2012/I
producer: "Out Loud" / writer: "Out Loud"
Joyful Noise
2012
arranger: "Fix Me Jesus" / writer: "I'm Yours"
The Blind Side
2009
writer: "Eric Apologizes"
Brother Bear 2
2006
Video performer: "Welcome To This Day Reprise"
Marci X
2003
"Eat the Beat", "Power in My Pants", "Power in My Purse", "Let's Wait" / "Let's Date", "In the Butt", "Vote for Spinkle", "Marci X" / music: "Eat the Beat", "Power in My Pants", "Power in My Purse", "In the Butt", "Vote for Spinkle", "Marci X" / producer: "Eat the Beat", "Power in My Pants", "Power in My Purse", "Let's Wait" / "Let's Date", "Woman of Color", "In the Butt", "Vote for Spinkle", "Marci X"
The Wedding Planner
2001
arranger: "Bridal Chorus" / performer: "Plan On Forever" / writer: "Plan On Forever"
Get Your Stuff
2000
music: "Ready to Rock" / performer: "Ready to Rock" / producer: "Ready to Rock"
Pokémon: The Movie 2000
1999
writer: "The Power of One"
The Out-of-Towners
1999
arranger: "Isn't It Romantic" / performer: "Love Train", "Isn't It Romantic" / producer: "Love Train", "Isn't It Romantic"
Living Out Loud
1998
arranger: "Lush Life", "Goin' Out of My Head", "Be Anything But Be Mine" / producer: "Lush Life", "Goin' Out of My Head", "Give Me Something Real", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Be Anything But Be Mine", "They Can't Take That Away From Me" / writer: "Give Me Something Real"
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
arranger: "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free"
The Preacher's Wife
1996
writer: "Who Would Imagine A King?"
James and the Giant Peach
1996
arranger: "Good News" / producer: "Good News"
Renaissance Man
1994
writer: "To Be Or Not To Be"
The Paper
1994
performer: "THE ONE TO PAY"
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
arranger: "His Eye Is On The Sparrow", "Joyful, Joyful", "Oh Happy Day", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" / producer: "His Eye Is On The Sparrow", "Joyful, Joyful", "Oh Happy Day", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Do the Right Thing
1989
lyrics: "Don't Shoot Me" / music: "Don't Shoot Me" / writer: "WELOVE Radio Jingles"
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
From Zero to I Love You
filming
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
2013
TV Movie
Hot Guys with Guns
2013
Something Real
2012
Short
Joyful Noise
2012
A Raisin in the Sun
2008
TV Movie
Wedding Wars
2006
TV Movie
Pizza Time
2006
TV Movie
Honey
2003
Marci X
2003
A Walk to Remember
2002
The Wedding Planner
2001
Steel
1997
The Wharf Rat
1995
TV Movie
Silent Bomb
1994
Short
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
From Zero to I Love You
filming
Pianist
Hot Guys with Guns
2013
Pianist
Joyful Noise
2012
Pacashau Sacred Divinity Musician (Piano)
Last Holiday
2006
Keyboard Player for Smokey Robinson (uncredited)
A Walk to Remember
2002
Pianist
Living Out Loud
1998
Jasper's House Band's Pianist
The Preacher's Wife
1996
Pianist
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hot Guys with Guns
2013
producer
Something Real
2012
Short executive producer
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
SCORE: A Film Music Documentary
2016
Documentary
Himself
Tavis Smiley
2016
TV Series
Himself
Today
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest Musician
Late Show with David Letterman
2012
TV Series
Himself - Guest Musician
How Sweet the Sound Finale
2011
TV Movie
Himself
Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Performer
The 35th Annual Grammy Awards
1993
TV Special
Himself - Performer
Take 6: All Access
1992
Video short
Himself
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones
1990
Documentary
Himself (as Take 6)
Known for movies
Six Feet Under (2001) as Music Department
Do the Right Thing (1989) as Music Department
The Wedding Planner (2001) as Music Department
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) as Music Department
$4 Million
