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Havana, 2016. Stacy Widelitz has lived a life in the arts, both musical and visual. Check out his personal portfolio and his collections of work.
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In 2016, I ran for office, and served four years as...
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Stacy Widelitz A Life in the Arts. About; Collections....
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Young Woman in a Cafe, Florence 2015. Dear Stacy, Your photo...
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Experiences & Music & “She’s Like the Wind” & My Story...
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Photography & East Nashville Tornado, March 2020....
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Events & Nashville Opera “Behind the Curtain” with Stacy...
- She's Like The Wind” & My Story Behind The Song
One thing I said at the memorial service – I’ll always be...
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Growing up in Plainview, NY, I started playing music the way so many others have over the years: I signed up for band. It was 4th grade, and I wanted to learn the cello but—to my great disappointment—was assigned the flute instead. My parents rented one, and I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. After a month of frustration, the band director sent ...
By 15, I was in Local 802 of the AF of M, playing clubs on Long Island. At 19, I started writing music for a small studio in Stamford, CT, quitting college soon after to focus on composing. I landed my first national TV theme at 24, for “The Richard Simmons Show.” The show became a hit, and it was time for me to switch coasts and make the big move ...
I had 19 productive years in LA, scoring some films and a lot of TV shows. I had a major hit song from a soundtrack album, picked up an Emmy nomination, and wound up living in Malibu with views of the ocean and the mountains. In my last two years there, a producer friend recommended I start going to Nashville to write songs. “Nashville? I don’t kno...
My time here in Nashville has led me down unexpected and fascinating paths. Music has certainly been a big part of that (you can listen to my music on Soundcloud), but I got involved in the broader arts community and local government. In 2016, I ran for office, and served four years as Commissioner in the City of Oak Hill. I’ve served as board pres...
Stacy Widelitz is a versatile and accomplished artist who has worked in various genres and media, from TV themes to film scores to opera. Learn about her journey from Long Island to LA to Nashville, and see her photography portfolio on Chauvet Arts.
Jul 7, 2022 · Music. As a teenager, Widelitz played clubs on Long Island as a member of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. [2] At age 24, he co-wrote the musical theme for The Richard Simmons Show with imdbname:1633596|Wendy Fraser. He moved to Los Angeles and continued to write music for film features, television movies, and title credits ...
As both a musician and photographer, Stacy Widelitz strives for the same level of emotional expression in his photographs as he does in his music. He began his career as a composer at the age of 19 and rose to prominence when he co-wrote “She’s Like the Wind” with Patrick Swayze for his 1987 blockbuster Dirty Dancing. With a long and successful career as a musician and composer under his ...
Stacy Widelitz shares the story behind the song "She's Like the Wind" with Patrick Swayze, which was originally written for a movie but became a hit from "Dirty Dancing". Learn how she met Swayze, collaborated with him and his wife Lisa, and saw the song's success.
Stacy Widelitz started composing professionally at nineteen, but came to prominence with the song "She's Like the Wind," co-written with Patrick Swayze and featured in Swayze's blockbuster Dirty Dancing. Featured on the movie's wildly successful soundtrack, it reached no. 3 on Billboard's top-40 chart (no. 1 among adult-contemporary radio listeners).
Stacy Widelitz Along with his good friend Patrick Swayze he wrote the hit song "She's Like The Wind". If you saw the film Dirty Dancing and one of the 55 million people who own the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, then you're familiar with that song. That song reached number three on the U.S. Billboard charts, number one on the Adult Contemporary ...
