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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:Infobox musical artist Patrick Ray Leonard (born March 14, 1956) is an American songwriter, keyboardist, film composer, and music producer, best known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna. His work with Madonna includes her albums True Blue (1986), Who's That Girl (1987), Like a Prayer (1989), I'm Breathless (1990) and Ray of Light (1998). He scored Madonna's 2008 documentary I Am Because We Are, played keyboards with her at Live Aid (1985),<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was musical director and keyboardist on The Virgin Tour (1985) and the Who's That Girl World Tour (1987).

Leonard has also worked with a wide variety of other artists including late-period Pink Floyd and solo Roger Waters, Elton John, Leonard Cohen, Bryan Ferry, Julian Lennon, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Beck, Bryan Adams, Peter Cetera, Jewel, Blue October, Duncan Sheik, Michael W. Smith, Marianne Faithfull, and Robbie Robertson. He was half of the art-pop groups Toy Matinee with Kevin Gilbert, and Third Matinee with Richard Page. He has also acted as composer for a variety of films and stage productions.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Leonard has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, acting as a writer and producer for 2012's Old Ideas and 2014's Popular Problems, and co-writer, co-producer of 2016's You Want It Darker.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> "Nevermind", a song from Popular Problems that Leonard co-wrote and produced, was featured as the title theme for Season 2 of HBO's True Detective.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Cohen remarked that Leonard "is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there's anybody working today with those kinds of skills."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1997, Leonard released the instrumental album Rivers on his own record label, Unitone.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In 2024, he released the double album It All Comes Down to Mood on his current label, Ruudy 6 Recordings.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Early careerEdit

Leonard was born on March 14, 1956, in Crystal Falls, Michigan. He entered the music business with late 1970s Chicago-based pop rock band Whisper, then later the same band membership, Trillion (name changed for legal reasons), featuring future Toto singer Dennis "Fergie" Frederiksen on lead vocals. He also had a short stint as a keyboardist with the Allman Brothers Band in 1980.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He went on to act as musical director and lead keyboardist for the the Jacksons' Victory Tour in 1984.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

InfluencesEdit

"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall – that's what I grew up with and that's what I dreamed of doing one day," he recalled in 1992. "I was a big Gentle Giant fan. I was a huge Jethro Tull fan. But I had to feed my children and heat my house, so I wrote some songs with a little girl who became extremely popular. It's really that simple."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Leonard and Icelandic singer and songwriter Anna Mjöll were married on November 19, 2018, in Patrick's home town, Crystal Falls, Michigan.Template:Citation needed

Leonard has three children: a daughter Jessica, a writer (for whom Madonna's song "Dear Jessie" was written), and two sons, Sean, who is a musician, and Jordan, a projection mapper and VJ under the name Pickels Visuals.Template:Citation needed

Work in film and stageEdit

Selected film creditsEdit

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  • Composed score for the documentary I Am Because We Are (2008). Directed by Nathan Rissman and written and produced by Madonna.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
  • Composed score for Triumph of the Dream (2012). A documentary by photographer and filmmaker Norman Seeff that explores the inner creative process of the scientists at work on NASA's Mars rover Mission.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Selected stage creditsEdit

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Selected music creditsEdit

With Madonna (1985-1990, 1994, 1998, 2008)

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With other artists

CollaborationsEdit

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