Rod Stewart’s Multifaceted Career Spans Genres

 


Hollywood-based Larry Ryckman, head of award-winning AfterMaster Audio Labs, has mastered sound for a string of Grammy-nominated songs. He and AfterMaster have amassed the most extensive discography of hits by any company in their industry, and are the recipients of three awards for innovation from the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show. Larry Ryckman’s roster of artist collaborations includes Madonna, Julian Lennon, Aerosmith, Diddy, Rod Stewart, and many more.

Singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, born in London in 1945, has enjoyed a rich career in pop music and rock and roll, and as a crossover artist covering classic American standards later in his career. He first rose to fame as a member of the British group the Small Faces - later simply the Faces - in the late 1960s. His early solo hit “Maggie May” and his album Every Picture Tells a Story made him an international star.

Through the 1970s and beyond, Rod Stewart wrote and performed wildly popular songs like “Tonight’s the Night,” “Young Turks,” and “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” His career slowed in later years, but his crossover into standards resulted in a revival of his popularity in the new millennium, with his album It Had to Be You receiving a Grammy nod.

Inducted into the United Kingdom’s Music Hall of Fame in 2006, Stewart was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in 2012.