Through the years former Space For Music Records Ambient Recording Artist, Musician & Film Composer, Neal Merrick Blackwood, has produced and engineered Grammy award-winning artists ranging from instrumental to alternative rock. Neal is a multi-instrumentalist who was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Neal spent most of his early life in the Nashville area studying and performing various musical styles that helped to instill a solid foundation from which a passion for musical experimentation and his cultural heritage developed into Neal's evolving ambient musical approach and love for his own native culture. Neal plays ambient music, native flute and drum music along with other styles of music that he plays and caters to professionally. For many years in Nashville, Neal has worked with various talent and clients as an engineer, producer, musician, programmer, composer, arranger and songwriter in world-renowned studio facilities, as well as in a wide variety of locations and recording environments throughout the world. Even though Neal has nothing to do with gospel music, Neal's family is The Blackwood gospel family. The Blackwood family has won 8 Grammy Awards, 27 Dove Awards and 5 American Music Awards, recorded over 200 albums and sold over 50 million records. The Blackwood family has been inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame (Listed under F: FAVORITE GOSPEL SONGS AND SPIRITUALS, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet), the GMA Gospel Music Hall Of Fame, the SGMA Southern Gospel Music Hall Of Fame, and the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame. The Blackwoods have performed with artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Porter Wagoner, Bill Gaither, Charlie Pride, Dolly Parton and many others.
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