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Guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is
longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group
Special EFX featuring Chieli Minucci, a major force on the
jazz and world music scene for 40 years. Besides writing and
performing his own music, Minucci shares his guitar brilliance
throughout the entertainment world. He has recorded and
performed with many top artists, such as Celine Dion, Lou
Reed, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Marc Anthony,
Michael Bolton, Rupert Holmes, Eartha Kitt, Eddie Fisher,
Anastasia, as well as contemporary jazz artists Kirk Whalum,
Maysa, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Bernie Williams, Marion
Meadows, Lao Tizer, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Gerald Veasley,
Omar Hakim, and many others. Although renowned in the
jazz and pop world, Minucci is also a gifted television and
film composer. He has won three Emmy Awards and been
nominated 10 times for his eclectic compositional work. His
music can also be heard on the soundtracks of the films “No
Country for Old Men,” “Bowfinger,” “Legally Blonde,” “Panic,”
and others. Minucci’s original scoring work can be heard in
live stage productions of “Peter Pan,” “Dora the Explorer,”
“Thomas the Tank Engine,” and others.