Background
Fennell was born in Birmingham, and started playing music in the early 1980s, signing his first publishing contract with Warner/Chappell Music.
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Career
He was the lead singer, lyricist and musician for the band Ultravox from 1992 until 1994. He is an established writer and producer of music for television He has signed publishing and recording contracts with Warner Brothers, Atlantic, Electric and Music Industries and BMG. His film and television credits include Disney, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Home Box Office, Public Broadcasting Service and Syfy as well as national commercials for Dodge, Mattel and General Mills.
His band, Mr.
President, went on to sign with Atlantic Records. During this time, Fennell was also the bass player for Edwin Starr. In 1985, the band changed its name to "Big Noise".
The band released the album, produced by Elliot Wolfe (Paula Abdul).
He toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, including with James Brown. After moving to the United States permanently in the late 1980s, Fennell co-wrote with David Frank (The System) the track "If You Believe", for soul singer Kenny Thomas" 1991 Platinum album Voices.
In 1992 Fennell became the lead singer of United Kingdom band Ultravox and signed with Electric and Music Industries. He co-wrote and recorded the European Parliament "" and the album Revelation, which was subsequently re-released as The Great Outdoors in 2002. In 1995 Fennell signed a publishing deal with Japanese company Avex.
While with Avex, Fennell co-wrote the underscore for the movie Within the Rock (Gary Tunnicliffe) for the Syfy Channel.
Teaming up with Rod Gammons (Liberty X) and Bob Khozouri (Eternal), he co-wrote two songs for Jaki Graham"s album Hold On and another for her album Real Life. In 1996/7 Fennell formed the band with fellow Englishman Ian Hatton (Bonham, The Honeydrippers) and signed with Push/BMG. The band went on to record two albums: and Hyrdroponic and toured the United States over a period of 4 years. In the early 2000s, he wrote and recorded songs for Bear In The Big Blue House (Disney), Little Bill (Columbia Broadcasting System), Out Of The Box (Nickelodeon), Gullah Gullah Island (Nickelodeon), Cyberchase (Public Broadcasting Service), Scrubs (American Broadcasting Company) and Nash Bridges (Columbia Broadcasting System).
In 2004, he signed with Zest Music as the in-house writer/ producer working in conjunction with Chief Executive Officer Steve Weltman (Chrysalis, Hit and Run Music).
With Zest, Fennell wrote and produced with Richard Evans (Peter Gabriel) and co-wrote and produced the album Night Racing for Tara Chinn. Fennell and Chinn went on to tour Australia to promote the album Night Racing.
In 2009, Fennell wrote/ produced songs and underscore for the movie, King Of The Avenue (Ving Rhames). In 2010, Fennell co-wrote "Crash and Burn" and "Black and White" with Alex Smith (James Morrison) and Karen Louise Barrowor lieutenant also made the top ten of the Billboard Breakout Club Charts in the United States of America. In 2013/14 Fennell wrote and co-produced with Jason Silver (Mark Ronson) the album for singer Brenda Edwards (We Will Rock You/The X Factor).
He is writing/producing with bass player Chip Z"nuff and the band Enuff Z"nuff and has produced two songs for the bands latest release "".
The company released the social media/music app, Musations in July 2014. The app consequently charted at #3 in the Apple AppStore"s free music downloads.
