A producer, writer, executive and an industry veteran, Harry Weinger is Vice President of A&R for Universal Music Enterprises, the catalog arm of Universal Music Group. In his role Harry has developed and/or produced hundreds of releases for dozens of artists, ranging from Marvin Gaye to Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder to Bon Jovi, Lionel Richie to Frank Sinatra, and many more, winning two GRAMMY® Awards, France and Germany’s GRAMMY® equivalents, an NAACP Image Award, and other accolades. In his evolving A&R role he has also consulted on several music documentaries and their soundtracks, was a co-producer of the A&E documentary series, Say It Loud: The James Brown Story, and also appeared on camera in the Spike Lee joint, Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, and the Showtime documentary, Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James.
Harry co-produced the Grammy®-winning soundtrack to Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the acclaimed film about Motown’s Funk Brothers band, as well as the Grammy®-nominated soundtrack to the Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman, Get On Up, for which he served as Music Consultant. For Broadway, Harry co-executive produced the Original Cast Recordings for the Tony Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning productions of, respectively, Motown the Musical and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, the latter also Grammy®-nominated, adding to his standing as an honorary member of the group. Harry has overseen dozens of Dolby® ATMOS mixes, working with a core of audio engineers and often the artists themselves. Among these spatial audio projects are the Bob Marley albums Exodus and Legend (mixed by UMG’s Nick Rives); the Bee Gees collection Timeless: All-Time Greatest Hits (Eric Schilling w/the band’s John Merchant); Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” (UMG’s Kevin Reeves), which for years was the demo song on Dolby’s website, as well as the album Marvin Gaye Live! (Scott Frankfurt), a January 31 release that will include the complete show for the first time; James Brown’s 20 All Time Greatest Hits! (ROC.am); the Bon Jovi hat trick of albums Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet and New Jersey (Reeves, collaborating w/the band’s Obie O’Brien), and many more.