Ep. 138: FRED
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is a multi instrumentalist producer, songwriter and artist who has had 6 Uk No1s, 11 Top 10s and last year was the youngest ever winner of the Brit Award for Producer of the Year. He has been called “a genius” by Brian Eno and “The White Burna Boy” by Burna Boy. A child prodigy, he wrote and produced his first album at 10 and started writing his first Symphony at 14. This was performed by a 50 piece orchestra at his high school when he was 16. His second symphony written aged 17 was performed in London by the Royal College of Music with a 60 piece of Orchestra to two sold out nights. Two years later he had his first No 1 with Clean Bandit & Demi Lovato, followed up immediately with his second with George Ezra which took his first off the top spot. The latter was the biggest selling song of that summer and has become the longest running UK Top 75 song of all time. He also became a key collaborator of Ed Sheeran, producing the bulk of his No 5 Collaboration Project including 3 more No 1s. He is presently writing Ed’s next album. At the time of writing he is not only the #1 selling pop producer in the UK of the last year but also the #1 selling rap producer as well as being nominated for Best Dance Recording at the Grammys this year (with Jayda G). He has worked with artists including Ed Sheeran, FKA Twigs, Justin Bieber, Stormzy, George Ezra, Brian Eno, Khalid, Nicki Minaj, Maisie Peters, Headie One, Cardi B, Camilla Cabello and many more. Now releasing music as an artist himself, our guest has garnered over 4mil monthly listeners on spotify. And The Writer Is… FRED!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with hundreds |
| 0:15.7 | of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session is the first |
| 0:20.1 | hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever. So this is |
| 0:26.0 | a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, |
| 0:31.7 | who the people are, who write the songs. I'm producing this with the great Joe London, |
| 0:36.3 | big deal music publishing, and mega house music management. If you want to listen to the |
| 0:40.6 | songs we discuss in this podcast, follow us on our socials, find out about special live |
| 0:46.4 | events, or buy that merch aka that had I always wear. Go to our website www.andthewriteris.com |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to And The Update Is. I'm your host, Paige McDonald, and this is your weekly |
| 1:09.1 | music industry update. Spotify has launched a free premium offer for TikTok users in the |
| 1:15.3 | UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Turkey. Justin Prokash has been promoted |
| 1:23.2 | to CFO of Concord Music Publishing and Concord Theatricals. |
| 1:28.5 | Rick Rubin has inked an overall TV and film deal with endeavor content. Under this deal, |
| 1:33.9 | Rick Rubin will expand his Shangri-La recording studios to movie and TV production. The recording |
| 1:39.9 | academy has banned chart numbers and sales figures and Grammy for your consideration ads. This |
| 1:45.6 | shows that the academy wants voters to focus on the quality of the recording rather than |
| 1:50.2 | success in the marketplace. Sony Music Publishing is taming up with the Australian Music Company |
| 1:56.0 | Alberts to rep the complete song catalogs of rock band AC DC and the songwriting and production |
| 2:02.2 | team Vande Young and Wright. Damon Dash has accused Jay-Z of elicitly transferring streaming |
| 2:08.2 | rights to his debut album Reasonable Dow, which was initially released in 1996. |
| 2:14.2 | Reservoir has signed artist, songwriter, and producer Rufio Hooks to a worldwide publishing |
| 2:19.8 | deal. This deal includes Rufio's current global hit co-write butter by the K-Pop stars BTS |
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