Fauzi Marzuki, the Malaysian renowned composer, musician audio mixing & mastering engineer, born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. He graduated from Institute Teknologi Kebangsaan (now known as UTM) Major in Electrical.
He started playing music since he was 12 years old. During 1975-1978 he played in one of Malaysia’s top bands called “Discovery” which has recorded an album with EMI (M) (1976) with hit songs such as “Katak Lompat”, “Penghibur” and “Di Malam Sepi”. Later, he join Anita Sarawak’s band for one year touring to Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Middle East & Australia. In 1979, he focused in composing songs and recording as well as freelance musician where he gained experience in album recording and producing albums, through the producers such as Ahmad Nawab, Kassim Masdor and Goh Boon Hoe. In 1980, he started producing albums for Blues Gang “Ibu”, Yusni Hamid “Ku Tak Mengerti” and Rahimah Rahim “Bebas”, Anita Sarawak, Sudirman and many others with hits.
In 1983, he was appointed as A&R Manager in Emi Malaysia where more albums were published such as for Aman Shah “Adik Ku Pandai Menari”, Noor Kumalasari “Mata”, Anita Sarawak “Asmara” and brought in Sheila Majid. During this period, he gained valuable experience in music business and has the opportunities to work in the world famous studios for recording, mixing & mastering albums such as Abbey Road Studio in London (Arwah Sudirman’s album “One Thousand Million
Smiles”, Toshiba Emi Studio in Tokyo (Sheila Majid’s album) and Capitol Studios in Los Angeles (Anita Sarawak’s album “Antara Yang Manis”). This has made him the only music producer who has experience and talent in recording music either pop, rock, traditional and others. He was also very much involved in the recording and mastering work of Tan Sri S.M. Salim’s album with Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra at Dewan Philharmonic Petronas. He was also appointed as the Executive Producer (Technical) for traditional album of Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza which involved many composers.
In 1983, during the time in EMI Malaysia as Artist & Repertoire Manager, he was the guitarist for the late Sudirman’s band.
In 1992, he won 5 out of 6 Composers’ Awards held by RTM and TV3. Other awards include “Pujaan 10 Nescafe”; Juara Lagu TV3 (1993), “Anugerah Nadi Cipta(MACP) – 2005 and Anugerah Wirama (AIM) – 2007. In 1997, he then continue as freelance record producer/composer till appointed as Marketing Manager and Audio Engineer in Synchrosound Studio, a very famous State of the Art studio in South East Asia in the year 2000.
From 2001 till 2023, he ran his own studio “Fauzimarzuki Productions”, specializing in mixing & mastering and producing lots of local albums for local artists and corporate songs. Since 2016, he started as Broadcast Mixing Engineer and Instructor for TV stations such as RTM and Astro. He also actively involved in creating corporate songs for Petronas, UniMap, Cats Radio Sarawak, Tourism Development Sarawak, National Takaful, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health and many more.
During 2017 – 2018, he was the part-time lecturer teaching mixing & mastering techniques at ASWARA and appointed as “Karyawan Seni” for Universiti Sains Islam Antarabangsa and “Karyawan Tamu” for JKKN, Negeri Sembilan from 2020 to 2022.
Some of the songs including hit songs written by Fauzi for a number of well-known local singers including:
Datuk Jamal Abdillah “Kekasih Awal & Akhir and “Penghujung Rindu”, Rahim Maarof “Usang”,
Datuk Sheila Majid “Lagenda”, Nash “Pada Surga Di Wajahmu”, Shima” Teringin”, Rahimah Rahim “Selamat Berhariraya” “Masihkah Ada Cinta”, Datuk Sharifah Aini “Kau Yang Bernama”, Mawi “Kian” and many more………