Who is Walter Afanasieff? ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ co-writer slams Mariah Carey over credit issues

American record maker and musician Walter Afanasieff as of late pummeled Happy holidays artist Mariah Carey with respect to her melody All I Need for Christmas Is You.

The 64-year-old, who co-composed and co-delivered All I Need for Christmas Is You with Carey, showed up on Hot Takes and Profound Plunges with Jess Rothschild web recording. On the web recording, the maker designated Carey for claims that she composed the previously mentioned tune when she was “only a youngster.”

Walter Afanasieff, who guaranteed the issues in regards to the credits began about 10 years prior, made sense of his side of the story by saying:

For the unversed, Afanasieff’s remarks were concerning Mariah Carey’s explanation that she provided for Announcement in 2017. In her articulation, the Vision of Affection vocalist asserted:

“I’m pleased with this melody that I composed fundamentally as a youngster on my little Casio keyboard.”Walter Afanasieff, the American record maker and lyricist who has been dynamic since the mid ’80s

Walter Afanasieff, previously known as Child Love during the ’80s, is of Russian-Chinese drop and has been dynamic in the music business for right around forty years. He began as a jazz performer and played the console with the violin player Jean-Luc Ponty.

In the wake of filling in as a performer, writer, and arranger for a really long time, Afanasieff turned into a record maker during the last part of the ’80s and mid ’90s. He additionally filled in as a maker and arranger on OST for numerous Disney projects like Aladdin, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Woman, and Magnificence and the Monster.

He has packed away two Grammy Grants in his vocation. His originally came in 1999 in the Record of the Year class after he delivered Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On. His second Grammy Grant was for Maker of the Year, Non-Traditional class, in 2000.

Walter Afanasieff asserted Mariah Carey doesn’t figure out music

During his appearance on Hot Takes and Profound Jumps with Jess Rothschild webcast, Walter Afanasieff broadened his cases in regards to the “melody credits” disaster as he affirmed that Mariah Carey “doesn’t grasp music.”

“She plays nothing, she doesn’t play console or piano. She doesn’t comprehend music, she doesn’t realize harmony changes and music hypothesis or any such thing. She doesn’t have the foggiest idea about a decreased harmony from a minor seventh harmony to a significant seventh harmony.”
He added:

“So to guarantee that she composed an exceptionally convoluted harmony organized melody with her finger on a Casio console when she was a young lady, it’s sort of a fanciful story.”
The maker likewise described how he and Carey concocted All I Need for Christmas while they were at that point dealing with three tunes from the last’s Happy holidays collection. Strangely, Afanasieff worked together with Mariah Carey on her initial six studio collections.