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And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

Ep. 49: Ian Kirkpatrick

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is a Grammy-nominated writer and producer who was born and raised in Los Angeles and started playing drums at the age of five years old. To date, he has landed twelve singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart including Jason Derulo’s “Want to Want Me” and Dua Lipa’s smash “New Rules” both of which he produced and each song hit #1 on Pop Radio. He has written and produced multi-platinum hits for major artists such as Selena Gomez (“Bad Liar” & “Back to You”), Nick Jonas (“Levels”), Andy Grammer (“Fresh Eyes” & “Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah)”), and the Plain White T’s (“Rhythm of Love”). He also earned a Grammy nomination for his work on Justin Bieber’s multi-platinum album ‘Purpose’, for which he co-wrote and produced the song “The Feeling” featuring Halsey. And The Writer Is… Ian Kirkpatrick!

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0:00.0

Welcome to season 3 of and the writer is I am your host Ross Golan. I've written with

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hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each

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session is the first hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever.

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So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs,

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and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs.

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I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, big deal music publishing, and mega house

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music management.

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socials, find out about special events, or buy some of our merchandise, go to our

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Welcome to and the writer is I I am your host Ross Golan.

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Today's multi-platinum number one hit writing Grammy nominated writer producer

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has made a huge name for himself in the pop world working with some

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of the biggest artists in the industry including Justin Bieber, Selina Gomez,

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Brittany Spears, and Blake Shelton. He is a lynchpin in the writing community and might be

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