Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (born August 18, 1956) is a drummer best known for working with the singer-songwriter"Weird Al" Yankovic. The two met while recording "Another One Rides the Bus" at the Dr. Demento show on September 14, 1980. Shortly after, Yankovic invited Schwartz to join his band, gave him the nickname "Bermuda" (a play on words of tropical apparel Bermuda shorts) and they have worked together ever since. Schwartz is heard and/or seen on all of Yankovic's albums, videos, and concerts.
Early life
Although born in Chicago, Schwartz grew up in Phoenix. He came from a musical family; his father played accordion, his mother was a singer and piano player, and his brother, session guitarist and producer Richard Bennett, has recorded with countless top artists in Los Angeles and Nashville, and enjoyed lengthy associations touring and recording with Neil Diamond and Mark Knopfler.
Schwartz began drum lessons in 1965, and when his family moved to Los Angeles a few years later, he had decided to become a professional drummer and by the mid-1970s was drumming regularly with a few bands and doing some recording work.
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Ariana Grande rejected a major change that composer Stephen Schwartz wanted to make to one of Wicked's most iconic songs when she took on the role of Glinda the Good...Composer Stephen Schwartz (left) pictured with the film's cast and director Jon M.
In a new piece for the Los Angeles Times, director Jon M. Chu, composer Steven Schwartz, and the film's crew rave about the "golden-age movie star" and her performance of one of the musical's most beloved numbers, "Popular."
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Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the first act of Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz's hit Broadway musical fell slightly short of recent analyst expectations in the $120-million to $140-million range, ...
But then, “as we were writing this portion of ‘One Short Day’ about the story of the Grimmerie, our brilliant director, Jon Chu, had this idea,” Schwartz recalls ... “You are such a good actress that you're unrecognizable,” Schwartz jokes.
