Biographie
Stanley Clarke, a four-time Grammy Award winner, has achieved "living legend" status throughout his more than 40-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bassist to excel equally on both acoustic and electric bass and the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline worldwide tours with sold-out shows. With over 40 albums to his name, he earned the 2011 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy for The Stanley Clarke Band. Clarke co-founded the influential fusion group Return to Forever alongside Chick Corea and Lenny White. In 2012, Return to Forever received both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album with Forever.
Clarke's innovation has been widely celebrated: he holds gold and platinum records, multiple Grammy Awards, Emmy nominations, and has topped numerous readers' and critics' polls. He was Rolling Stone’s first Jazzman of the Year and won Playboy’s Music Award for bassist ten consecutive years. Clarke received Bass Player Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award and is featured in Guitar Player Magazine’s "Gallery of Greats." In 2004, Los Angeles Magazine named him one of the Top 50 Most Influential People. He was presented the key to Philadelphia and immortalized with a handprint in cement as a 1999 inductee of Hollywood’s "Rock Walk" on Sunset Boulevard. In 2011, he earned the prestigious Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival, honoring his entire career. Clarke topped Downbeat Magazine’s Reader's and Critics Polls as Best Electric Bass Player for three consecutive years.
A prolific composer for film and television, Clarke has contributed to over 65 projects including Boyz N The Hood, the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It, Romeo Must Die, The Transporter, and Best Man Holiday. His work has earned three Emmy nominations and a BMI Award. In 2014, he was invited to join the esteemed Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Born in Philadelphia, Clarke has been a dynamic presence in American music since the early 1970s with the success of Return to Forever. This led to a number of highly successful solo albums. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with legends such as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Art Blakey, Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, The Police, Herbie Hancock, and has shared the stage with icons like Bob Marley and Miles Davis.
Clarke leads his own record label, Roxboro Entertainment Group, and is dedicated to nurturing young talent. Alongside his wife Sofia, he founded The Stanley Clarke Foundation thirteen years ago, a charitable organization that provides scholarships to gifted young musicians annually.
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