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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who in March released his ninth album, fittingly enough, titled, “9 Dreams.” Based south of Los Angeles, he has gotten international airplay and media coverage from Portugal to Canada to the UK and more. He even has his own publishing company and record label. He is already planning his next album, plus he is working with a studio in Los Angeles on various...

South Africa-based platinum-selling singer/songwriter and producer whose latest single was released in February as well as an official music video for it. He will be touring extensively in Europe in late October and most of November, doing 16 dates in nine different countries. He has also performed here in the U.S. as well as in Thailand. His third album, released in 2019, earned two South African...

Singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a new single last month, after having put out a new track the month before and a third at the start of this year – ON New Year’s Day! He has been working with a producer that has won multiple GRAMMY Awards and received numerous GRAMMY nominations. In addition, he had a notable music mentor that he talks about here. His music background even inclu...

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who has won two GRAMMY Awards. Last year she released three singles and a full-length album. Based in Nashville, she has written songs for, recorded with, and toured with a range of household names in country music. She is signed to Pump House Records, and she has had seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The videos on her official YouTu...

Lead vocalist and guitar player for the rockabilly band Emery Villains. Last year the band did two single releases – putting out a music video for one of them last October – and they have been active performing there in northern California, with more dates next month and even as far out as September. They have even performed up in Washington State and in Oregon. He has also been a member of the he...

He has written songs for artists who are household names in country music, from Lee Brice to Randy Houser to Luke Bryan, Jamey Johnson, Faith Hill, Megan Moroney, and more. Already this year, a song called “6 Months Later” that he co-wrote with Moroney went to number 1. In 2014, he was named SESAC Songwriter of the Year. Six years later he co-founded the independent record label Pump House Records...

He has had a long career in the music industry, having started off as a musician and songwriter in San Francisco, where he played in several new wave bands and started learning production. He went on to work in Los Angeles at Cherokee Studios and Paramount before becoming an indie producer and moving to Germany where he was signed to BMG as a producer and also ran a small indie record label. He al...

Las Vegas-based vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, film composer, and music producer. Plus, he even teaches music production at UNLV. He was an original band member in the Las Vegas production of Blue Man Group, spanning 18 years and playing five instruments. Previously, he had spent seven years drumming with Wild Colonials, who were on Geffen Records, co-writing and recording three albu...

Music industry professional with decades of experience in recording studio management. She is the Director of Studio Operations at The Hideout in Las Vegas, where this interview was recorded, and started her career at the famed Power Station Studios in New York City. There she met producer, musician, and actor Little Steven Van Zandt, who hired her to work for him as an engineer and as a musician...

GRAMMY and Juno award-winning bassist, composer, engineer, producer, educator, and artist who last August released an eight-song album. He performs in a variety of traditional and contemporary music ensembles from around the world and is on faculty at Humber College, where he teaches audio production, performance, and composition. As a producer, mix engineer and mastering engineer, he has worked w...

Chart-topping songwriter, solo artist, multi-platinum award winner, and soul singer based in Nashville. Last October he released a five-song EP that got approximately three million streams across all platforms. He is renowned for crafting No. 1 country radio hits such as Gary Allan’s “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” and earning prestigious ASCAP Awards and an ACM Song of the Year nomination. He is...

One of the most prolific and successful artists on the contemporary urban jazz scene. Last month he released his 18th full-length album. He is touring extensively in 2026 with dates from May to October. A British artist and producer with 15 Billboard top ten hits, he has had ten Billboard number ones as an artist, producer or co-writer. His career includes having founded his own record label, work...

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who, the day this interview is being released, is celebrating the two-year anniversary of the release of her ten-song album entitled, “Changing.” After performing in 30 countries by the age of 30, she made the east coast of the U.S. her home base, continuing to tour internationally. Her music has been featured on radio and festival stages around the world,...

Southern California-based vocalist, songwriter, bass player, engineer, and producer who has worked out of some of L.A.’s most renowned studios. She has worked on projects with artists ranging from Brittany Broski to Elishéva Lilla to Moral to Still Motions and more. She is also an Ampeg artist and is also part of the alt-punk / hardcore / indie-rock band Cun.trol. She has even worked for Warner Mu...

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who just released a new single in mid-February and has a full album coming out on April 10th. Already in his young career he has opened for the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Josh Turner, Lee Brice, Jamey Johnson, and Brooks & Dunn, among others. Plus, two years ago he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry. Five years ago, at the age of just 17 years old he w...

Singer, songwriter, keyboard, and washboard player who just released a nine-song album last month and did an album release event for it in Nashville. The new album has already hit #80 on the Americana charts, plus it has been getting airplay in Europe. Based in Music City, she even already has a five-song EP in the pipeline. Her music journey has seen her go from dance rock band to DJ to Americana...

He has been referred to by Billboard Magazine as "One of Music Row's greatest veteran tunesmiths.” A multi-award-winning songwriter, he has had over 580 different songs recorded and his songs have sold in excess of 19 million records worldwide. He was a co-writer on a song that Chris Stapleton won a GRAMMY for last year for “Best Country Performance of the Year.” This past Friday he released a new...

An award-winning composer and acclaimed jazz pianist, as well as a producer and bandleader. A voting member of the Recording Academy, she has 31 albums released in the United States as well as two in Asia. She has performed at venues of all sizes, including Carnegie Hall, The Smithsonian, and UCLA Royce Theater, among others. At the end of November, she released an album that the London Times call...

Pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and music director whose work has earned two GRAMMY Awards, 14 nominations, two Latin GRAMMY nods, and an Edison Award. Plus, his musical direction for the Jazz at the White House broadcast earned an Emmy nomination. He performed with Miles Davis, has collaborated with Chaka Khan, Stanley Clarke, and more, plus he has been musical director with Steely Dan, Qu...

A number 1 Billboard charting flutist, a composer, recording and touring artist, educator, and radio show host who just released a new single early last month. She was named BEATS Magazine’s “Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2024 and has performed at notable venues and events from here in the U.S. to Portugal to London and even on the Dave Koz Cruise. She is also a member of the all-female jazz...

Recorded on-location at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California with a Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who put out four singles last year. In 2025, she opened the NAMM She Rocks Awards and performed at PRS Guitars’ 40th Anniversary Party alongside legends like John Mayer. In 2022 she scored her first Top 40 Canadian country single, which passed one million streams, and landed on mul...

Singer, songwriter, guitar and piano player who released two singles last year and has a brand-new song coming out this Friday, February 13th. She was on season 14 of “America’s Got Talent” and won the golden buzzer, plus in 2021 she won the grand prize of the Unsigned Only Music Competition out of ten thousand entries from 120 countries. She has put up amazing numbers: two million followers on Ti...

Singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who released three singles last year and is also a part of Climate Music, which she talks about in this conversation, recorded on-location in Anaheim, California, at the NAMM Show. She was a contestant on season 20 of “The Voice,” has been featured on PBS’s 30 Minute Music Hour, and was featured on NPR for their Tiny Desk Contest feature, “To...

Singer, songwriter, guitar player, producer, and publisher whose songs have sold over twenty million records worldwide and garnered over sixty million digital streams, several number ones, and Billboard songs yielding gold and platinum albums. He also created more than two hundred commercials for TV and radio, and his library of recorded soundtracks includes the co-scoring of nineteen films. He ha...

Mexico-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, former attorney, and a best-selling author who is the founder of an app called SongwritersdB, having written over two thousand songs himself over the years. He has lived in the major music meccas of New York and Nashville, and in 2018 he completed the construction of a pro recording studio on the premises of his own home and went on to record...