Ivan Matias

Ivan Matias is an American singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, hip hop ghostwriter, and entrepreneur from Brooklyn NY. He is primarily known for writing and producing hit songs for artists like En Vogue ("Don't Let Go") Angie Stone ("Wish I Didn't miss you") SWV ("You're The One") Blu Cantrell ("Breathe") among others which have sold over 44 million records worldwide & appear on over 100 greatest hits & compilation albums.

Matias has also had 4 major label recording deals with Atlantic Records, London Records, Arista Records and Elektra Entertainment. Only his Arista artist album was released and produced a #1 Dance Single "I've Had Enough". Matias has been featured on several soundtracks including "Dr. Dolittle" ("Do Little Things"), "Set It Off" ("Set It Off"), "Mod Squad" ("Messin' Around") and "Sprung" (Since You've Gone Away").

Early career

Ivan began his career as a backing singer & dancer for many artists including Mariah Carey & Busta Rhymes. He went on from these humble beginnings to write and produce songs recorded by many of the industries leading acts including Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z, Pink, Dr. Dre, Curtis Mayfield, Janet Jackson, Nelly, Lil' Kim, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, OutKast,Queen Latifah, Toni Braxton, En Vogue, SWV, Angie Stone, Blu Cantrell, Sean Paul, Silk, Az Yet, Traci Spencer, FatBoy Slim, Chico Debarge, Ray J, Changing Faces, Tomcraft, Xcape,The Braxtons, Immature, City High, Another Level, Jody Watley, Eric Sermon and Bette Midler.

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Ivan's Childhood

Ivan's Childhood (Russian: Ива́ново де́тство, Ivanovo detstvo), sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is based on the 1957 short story Ivan (Russian: Иван) by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and an uncredited Andrei Tarkovsky. The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush.

The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan and his experiences during World War II. Ivan's Childhood was one of several Soviet films of its period, such as The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier, that looked at the human cost of war and did not glorify the war experience as did films produced before the Khrushchev Thaw.

Ivan's Childhood was Tarkovsky's first feature film. It won him critical acclaim and made him internationally known. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 and the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1962. The film was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Famous filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Parajanov and Krzysztof Kieślowski praised the film and cited it as an influence on their work.