Our Secret Undercover Agents

Producer and Lead Vocals

Clare Heasly is a self-produced singer and songwriter. Her career spans over 25 years in the entertainment industry evolving differently to most artists. Her inaugural career began as a qualified theatrical stage technician in live entertainment. Clare specialised in stage management for Australia’s largest musicals and live productions, such as ‘Cats’ and ‘42nd Street’, the Royal Australian Air Forces’ 75th Anniversary for the ABC, and directed Tina Arena in her national
‘In Deep’ album tour to highlight a few. She spent time working in radio as both a writer and announcer before extending herself into music creatively. Clare turned professional as a singer in 2003 and created ‘Undercover Entertainment’. Clare has co-written tracks 13 and 14 of A Latino Christmas.
www.undercoverentertainment.com

Music Producer/Arrangements and Programming/Mixing

Duncan Kinnell is a music writer, producer, programmer, arranger, musician to keyboards, percussion and drums, and a studio sound technician. While growing up in Britain, he watched his father rehearse percussion weekly, with world greats such as Sammy Davis Jnr, Gladys Knight and the Pipps, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, The 3 Degrees and Charles Asnovour.
Dr. Robert Koppel, a scientist of music, taught Duncan music as a child. Duncan produces for television, radio, songwriters for originals works, as well as teaching music as a freelancer. He is in constant demand as a music director, and has been arranging music for Australian artists across the last 15 years. They include Marina Prior, Wendy Stapleton, Todd McKenney, Matt Hetherington, Lisa Edwards, Frankie J Holden, Bob Valentine, Nina Ferro, Angela Librandi and Disco Montego. Duncan owns and operates Creative Music Design.
Duncan has co-written tracks 13 and 14 of A Latino Christmas.

www.creativemusicdesign.com.au

Backing Vocals Singer/Arrangements/Mixing

Chris Blain is currently the musical director, manager, and a performer in Melbourne's premier
a cappella quintet ‘Suade’. His versatile talents give ‘Suade’ a leading edge with his colourful song writing. Chris maintains a sharp focus on tight vocal harmonies and memorable melodies. Additionally he performs,tours and records rich five-part harmonies in a contemporary style.
Chris received great radio and film success with the self-produced electronic trio ‘Minian Funken.’
He is also an instrumental part of developing and administering the 'Session Musos' artist agency, 'Cover Your Artz', and is a founding member of Melbourne's ‘Plug In’ arts and music exchange. Chris has co-written track 11 of A Latino Christmas.
www.suade.net

Sound Mastering and Lead Vocal Mixing

Steve Scanlon is a specialist to his craft and identified within the industry as one of the top in his field. Very few mastering engineers are mixing engineers. Steve is both which brings in a new level of awareness to dynamics, space and EQ in mastering. With the latest state of the art tools at hand, Steve is on the leading edge of technology.  He is passionately committed to scouring the world on a daily basis for advancements for the best and most musical solutions. Top Australian artists and additional artists around the world, to master their work, constantly pursue him.  Steve has enjoyed working with Kate Ceberano, Vanessa Amorosi, Tina Arena, The Young Divas, Andy Van, Conrad Hotels, Deep Purple, Richie Blackmore just to name but a few.

www.stevescanlon.net/