Ep. 71: Ben Platt

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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

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🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Our next guest achieved superstar status for his Tony Award-winning performance as Evan Hansen in ‘Dear Evan Hansen’, originating the lead role. He is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, and actor, who is also recognized for his role as Benji Applebaum in ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Pitch Perfect 2’. This year he shared another side of himself as a songwriter and solo artist with the release of his first full-length album, ‘Sing To Me Instead’, which delivers confessional lyricism by way of soulful intimacy as part of one cohesive narrative. The 12-track album chronicles the highs and lows of a transformative relationship. Showcasing his personal story, he penned several songs solo and co-wrote the remainder of material alongside the likes of Ben Abraham, Eg White, Nate Cyphert, Michael Pollack, Jenn Decilveo and more. In addition to his recent album, he is the executive producer and leading star of the new Ryan Murphy series, ‘The Politician’, currently on Netflix. He is the youngest artist to be one award away from EGOT status, And The Writer Is…Ben Platt!

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0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Welcome to Season 5 of And the Writer is with your host Ross Golan.
0:38.8	Before I give my spiel, I want to acknowledge the Music army that listens to this podcast every week.
0:45.0	Since starting this, the And the Writer Is community has literally changed the
0:50.0	history of the music business by helping pass the Music Modernization Act, gotten songwriters
0:55.8	added to album of the year for the grammys, and still is advocating for positive changes
1:01.7	for our industry on a daily basis. So thank you and
1:05.5	Congrats. Now as you know I've written with hundreds of artists and writers over the
1:11.6	years and my favorite part of each session is the first
1:14.0	hour when we catch up about life the industry politics composition whatever.
1:19.4	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs.
1:27.0	I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, Big Deal Music Publishing, and Mega House Music Management. If you want to listen to the songs we
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