She is best known for her songs by Billie Hughes, Philip Bailey, Phil Collins, Earth, Wind & Fire, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jacksons, Jacky Cheung, and in film[1] and television.
[3][4] Seeman is a writer and producer of the Japan Grand Prix Gold Disk Award for International Single of the Year "Welcome To The Edge" by Billie Hughes.
[4][20][21] While on Long Island, Seeman studied piano with Tony Aless, jazz pianist who played with Woody Herman, Charlie Parker, among others.
[4][25] Seeman spent nights in New York City jazz clubs while working as a temporary secretary at Atlantic Records and Warner Communications.
In between jobs, while lying on a dock over the Long Island Sound in Kings Point, she was inspired to write lyrics for jazz instrumentals.
[17] In NY, she met David Lasley, a songwriter and session singer touring with James Taylor, who sang demos of her lyrics to the instrumentals.
[31] While under contract, she wrote "Walking On The Chinese Wall" with Billie Hughes, which her publisher turned down as too unusual, giving her back the song.
[45][46] Hughes performed "Welcome To The Edge at the NHK Japan Grand Prix Gold Disk Awards where they were up against MC Hammer in the best international single category.
In 1987, she worked on the film Off Limits, starring Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines, on location in Bangkok and is credited for Thai casting.
[50] Roxanne Seeman & Jamie deRoy are co-producers of Scott Rudin's Broadway productions of "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Waverly Gallery".
[56][57] Seeman wrote the English lyrics "Come Back To Me" for "Gel Ey Seher", a poem by Fikret Goja set to music by Polad Bülbüloğlu.
In 1998, Paul Buckmaster was commissioned to write a new arrangement for Bulbuloglu, then Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, recommending Seeman for an English version.
[58][59] In 1999, Barbra Streisand released "Let's Start Right Now", an adaptation of the Brazilian song "Raios de Luz" with Roxanne Seeman's original English lyrics,[60] recorded with a 72 piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Jorge Calandrelli.
[65] For Sarah Brightman, Seeman wrote "Harem", original English lyrics for "Cancao do Mar", a Portuguese fado made famous by Amalia Rodrigues.
[77][78] December 2015, Argentinian tenor Eduardo Bosio, recorded Seeman's lyrics "Part Of Me", adapting Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" into a new song.
Seeman wrote five songs: "Everyday Is Christmas", "Which Way, Robert Frost", "Let It Go", "Lucky In Love" and "Double Trouble" with German and Scandinavian co-writers in Europe, in a jazz style Cheung later coined "Canto-jazz".
It is the theme song and promo music video for the Mainland China hit thriller "Lost in Panic Cruise".
From there, Seeman went to Suzhou to meet Han Xue, who recorded "Lonely Kiss" for her album "They Said" released by Gold Typhoon in Mainland China.
"Lucky In Love" and a new English language recording of "Which Way, Robert Frost" are included on Onesa's, Pop Goes Standards, released Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014.
[85][86] Jason Dy, winner of The Voice of The Philippines (season 2)[87] performed "Caught in that Feeling" live during the All Star Cast Finale Episode on March 7, 2015.
[92] On September 22, 2016, Kyle Echarri, 13 year old contestant of The Voice Of The Philippines, season 2, released Seeman's song "Our Moment", co-written with Philip Doron Bailey, jr., Jens Hoy, and Rasmus Rudolph Soegaard.
[93] On April 28, 2017, Edray Teodoro, contestant of The Voice Kids of The Philippines season 1 (2014), released her first EP, including Seeman's song "What You Doin' Tonight", co-written by Tinashe Sibanda and Melody Hernandez Noel.
[95][96][97] On March 20, 2020, China's first male bel canto quartet, Super Vocal, performed "Qui Con Me (Ni De Se Cai 你的色彩)" (Your Colors) on the Hunan Television singing competition "Singer 2020", in both Italian and Chinese lyrics.
[101] On July 30, 2021, Rose Liu (刘明湘) released "Ain't Gonna Wait" (没时间等你) written by Seeman, Boon Hui Lu, I-Wei Wu and Victor Lau at the MUST Songwriting Camp.
[4] This song was also performed in concert one year earlier on March 15, 1993, by the Jacksons, composed of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Randy, on the stage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for The Evening Of The Nations.
A collaboration with Eric Levi of ERA and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire resulted in "People And Places", the end-title song of the French film La Vengeance d'une blonde.
[112] From William Ross' theme for The Young Black Stallion, Seeman and Gavin Greenaway developed and produced the song "Born To Ride" sung by Biana Tamimi, the 11-year-old actress from the film, for the DVD release December 2004.
[121] Seeman and Riccardo Cocciante wrote "When Love Calls Your Name" for The Voice of Italy winner Elhaida Dan, who performed the song on the May 30, 2013 finale show.
"Qing Chun Dou" is the Mandarin language version of "Tick Tock (Beat The Clock)", written by Seeman - Ludvigsen - Fossheim.
[127] Pianist Elise Solberg accompanied Hannah Goldblatt singing "In Love And War" written by Seeman with Charles Fox.