Pete Bellotte

Pete Bellotte is a Music Producer, Songwriter and Author.

He is credited with the many hits of Donna Summer as both Producer and Writer. Pete has also produced and written for many artists including Elton John, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Shalamar and Cliff Richard etc, had songs in films such as The Full Monty, Scarface, Zoolanda, Behind the Candelabra and American Hustle, and songs covered by Beyoncé, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, System of a Down and Kylie Minogue among others.

Pete Bellotte is the recipient of countless worldwide Music Industry Awards, including Producer of the Year in the U.S.A for the two consecutive years of '78/'79 and was inducted into The Dance Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

His song, Hot Stuff, is in Billboard's All-Time Top 100 Songs.

In 2012, I Feel Love was one of only twenty five historical recordings inducted into the USA's Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

One of the stories included in 21 Stories, The Family Silver, was filmed in Los Angeles and entered for the Oscars 'Short Film' category, while Not a Christmas Carol was translated for the Italian market by Roberta Capellini .

Pete lives in the West Sussex countryside where he shares a state-of-the-art recording studio with his musician/songwriting wife, Ellie.

A recent CD by Pete, The Noisy Voice of the Waterfall, is available from his website www.petebellotte.com

Pete is a leading collector of the writings and art of Mervyn Peake and has written on this subject in various periodicals.