Randy Waldman (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Randy Waldman (born September 8, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Grammy Award-winning American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. He is also an airplane and helicopter pilot and holds a 2003 flight speed record in a Bell OH-58 helicopter. Waldman began playing piano at age five, was hired to demonstrate pianos at a local piano store at age 12, and performed with the Northwestern University band while still in high school. At the age of 21, he was hired to go on tour as the pianist for Frank Sinatra. The Lettermen then hired Waldman to go on tour from Chicago to Los Angeles, whereupon he decided to make Los Angeles his home. Within his first year of relocating to the west coast, Waldman toured with Minnie Riperton, Lou Rawls, Paul Anka, and George Benson, the latter of whom hired Waldman to be his musical director and arranger for the next seven years.