Ep. 144: Tommy Brown

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Songwriting, Artists, Interviews, Music Interviews, Music Creation, Music, Songwriters, Education

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper. He currently lives in LA and was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our guest has been Grammy-nominated as well as receiving multiple awards from ASCAP. He has scored multiple chart-topping albums while working with Ariana Grande on all six of her studio albums as well as executive producing Grande’s 2020 album Positions. In addition to Grande, his most recent work includes Justin Bieber’s single “Holy”, Blackpink’s “Ice Cream feat. Selena Gomez” and “Bet You Wanna (feat. Cardi B)”. Brown has also collected production credits for three songs on Grammy-award-winning artist Meghan Trainor's second album, Thank You. Our guest learned from production greats Roy "Royalty" Hamilton and Rodney Jerkins, while working alongside them and eventually creating a team of his own. And The Writer Is… Tommy Brown!

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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 am your host Paige McDonald and this is your weekly music
1:08.7	industry update. The BIMM Institute has launched an educational partnership with Spotify,
1:15.3	which aims to accelerate diversity in music education and the creative industries. The BIMM
1:21.1	Institute and Spotify Educational Partnership will offer a group wide package across all
1:25.8	eight colleges, including fully funded degree scholarships, master class events, mentoring
1:30.9	opportunities with Spotify executives and educational resources created by Spotify shared
1:36.2	directly with students as a part of their studies. BMG has acquired what it calls an extensive
1:42.6	portfolio of rights related to the music and image of Tina Turner. The DLC's BMG acquired
1:48.3	the artist's share of her recordings plus her music publishing writer, share and neighboring
1:52.8	rights plus her name, image and likeness. Five seconds of summer has inked a global record
1:59.6	deal with BMG. River House artists and Sony Music publishing have partnered to sign Nashville
2:05.8	favorite Neil Medley to a worldwide co-publishing agreement. Cobalt Music has named Jeanette
2:13.3	Perez as President and COO. Dolly Parin and her Smokey Mountain businesses have raised
2:20.0	$700,000 to help residents impacted by the flooding and middle Tennessee.
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