Henri René (b. December 29, 1906, in New York, New York ? d. April 25, 1993 in Houston, Texas) was an American-born German producer, conductor and arranger. René mother was German and his father French; while young, his family moved to Germany, and René studied at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. Returning to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, he began appearing with several orchestras. Soon after he returned to Berlin, working as an arranger with a German record label. In 1936, René came back to the U.S. and became musical director for the international wing of RCA-Victor, forming his own orchestra in 1941. After service for the Allies in World War II, he resumed working at RCA as a conductor and arranger. In the middle of the 1950s, he issued several successful LPs which All Music Guide has called "forerunners of the space-age pop aesthetic";[LINK: http://wm10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jnfixqr5ldte~T1] Henri René at Allmusi

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