Producer Mark J. Feist (destiny's child Emotion)
Three years after working with Washington and Moore, Feist lent his production talent to Destiny’s Child’s song “Emotion” off their 2001 album “Survivor.” However, the song wasn’t initially in choice for the group’s album tracklist. A year prior to the group’s rendition, he was asked to recreate the record for a Filipina artist named Regine Velasquez. His team fell in love with the remake and sent it over to Destiny’s Child’s team and Matthew Knowles. From there, “Beyoncé and the girls flew out and we took a meeting and they loved it,” he recalls. Feist says that Destiny’s Child’s vocal arrangements on the song were similar to Velasquez’s rendition. However, he clarifies that, “Obviously the girls [Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams] vocally put a different twist to it.” “Emotion” went on to becoming a top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100. Feist is proud that he was able to help propel the girls’ careers and help them tap into “other [radio] markets and [other] fans that they wouldn’t have normally had.” He continues, “That record really changed my life. It was on “Survivor” [album] and it was on their “Number 1’s” album. So it was pretty thrilling to be a part of that incredible phenomena at a time when albums sold.”