Walter produced and arranged other successful motion picture soundtracks, including Disney's Beauty and the Beast (the Celine Dion/Peabo Bryson title-track duet), Aladdin (“A Whole New World”) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (“Some Day”).  Walter was also the producer and arranger for “Go the Distance,” the Oscar-nominated Michael Bolton song from the animated film Hercules.

Celine Dion
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year for his work on the 1998 Celine Dion hit, My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from "Titanic")

Kenny G
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Kenny and renowned studio master Walter Afanasieff (Christina Aguilera Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Whitney Houston, Mika, Barbra Streisand) produced and arranged the album, the follow-up to 2008's Latin jazz collection Rhythm and Romance.

Mariah Carey
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"Hero" was awarded and nominated for awards throughout the music industry. Co-written and produced by Walter Afanasieff.


I still believe that it’s all in the song–Walter Afanasieff

While he has worked on a number of high profile projects and with a number of well-known artists, Afanasieff said he enjoys the challenge of working with new performers as well. "In a pure, honest sense," he told Billboard in 1998, "I would prefer an artist who is an unknown, unheard artist." One of the newer artists he was working with in 1999 was the Australian pop duo Savage Garden (Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones)....–enotes.com

Now I'm writing songs with a lot of artists. Just the writing of songs is so wonderful because it's not just, "Okay, what ballad do you want to do." No, this is writing, and the writing is setting up the producing, and a lot of this stuff is very diversified.–mixonlline.com