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While challenging, this past year has brought wonderful opportunities to work in and out of the studio with great friends and phenomenal talent. Here’s a glimpse of what I have been up to this year.

 

Hugh Lombardi

Dinner with two incredible men who believed in me and launched my Nashville/LA songwriting journey. Hugh Lombardi, former COO and GM of Powers Management (Gaylord Center, Nashville), and the incomparable Chaz Corzine, Executive Director of The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts — formerly a partner in The Michael W. Smith Group and Blanton, Harrell, Cooke & Corzine, the artist management firm behind Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, CeCe Winans, Joy Williams, Point of Grace, Bebo Norman, Scott Hamilton, and more.

When one of the Righteous Brothers records one of your songs and you get the preview invite.When a Righteous Brother records your song… and the invite to the exclusive listening party hits your inbox. Grateful to Bucky Heard for bringing it to life and to the team at Curb Recording Studio for an unforgettable night.

Congratulations to Blues Rock Artist Lauren Anderson who continues her climb with her latest release Love On The Rocks. Charting in the top 3 on the Roots Report top 50 Blues Rock Albums, number 14 on Billboard and number 21 on the NACC Blues Rock Chart. I had the privilege of writing the title track with Lauren and Sandy Ramos. Couldn’t be more excited for her success. #music #artist #songwriting 

Most people think the best part of writing a song with Kathie Lee Gifford is the bottle of wine she gives you from her own wine label. I think the true gift is the friendship she offers. Check out her great new film Then Came You with music by Kathie and Brett James.

I've had the honor of working with contestants from The Voice and American Idol, including Justin Jenkes, Emma Lee (The Voice), Scott MacIntyre (American Idol), Skylar Laine (American Idol), Janelle Arthur (American Idol), Robbie Rosen (American Idol), Jordan Rainer (The Voice, Team Reba McEntire), Wilkes (The Voice, Team Blake Shelton), and Emma Feldman (The Voice, Team Kelly Clarkson).

Not only is Tyler Russell an author of the Baxter Family Children Series co written with #1 New York Times Best selling author Karen Kingsbury, but he is also a screenwriter of Hallmark's Maggie's Christmas Magic and an artist/songwriter.

Congratulations to my friend Tyler on his recent release of our song In Charge of the Stars on all streaming platforms.


Special thanks to the UPTV channel for premiering one of my songs recently.

Working with Brett Boyett and Marty Dodson
It's always a great week when Brett Boyett, composer, producer and all around awesome friend is working on one of my songs! Honored to have co written another song with incredibly gifted songwriter and genuine friend Marty Dodson.

I'm thrilled to share that my co-write with the incredible soul-blues artist Lauren Anderson, “Boom, Boom, Boom,” has premiered exclusively on American Blues Scene!

Lauren's powerful vocals and raw guitar work bring a nostalgic, rebellious edge to this track, and I couldn’t be prouder of what we've created together. Be sure to check it out and feel the energy we poured into every note!

I wrote this song with Beth Nielsen Chapman that Olivia Newton John recorded with Beth and Amy Sky. Special thanks to good friend Becky Moore and All Hands IS for introducing me to Greta Fairbanks who did the beautiful sign language interpretation.

Laureen is a member of the Sync Edge Group led by Big Noise Sync's Jess Furman.

Spent my weekend at the Durango Songwriters EXPO enjoying some great music. Thanks to all of the music supervisors for meeting with me and listening to my music. It was great meeting you all. Special thanks to Jim Attebery for welcoming me into the Durango community!

Attended the Nashville Film Festival and had great meetings with Warner Chappell Music, Lionsgate, and Energy BBDO Ad Agency. Special thanks to Randall Foster, Liz Rogers and Peer Music Heather Cook.

LA indie sync artist Christine Parker will be releasing our song Burning Bridge on January 28th across all platforms. The song is distributed by Symphonic Distribution. Visit her website to order and pre-save: christineparkermusic.com

Had a great time at the sync summit attending panels and listening sessions with music supervisors. Thank you, Mark Frieser for a great tv, film, ad and gaming week.

Excited to announce Christine Parker is releasing our song TREADING WATER available now on all streaming platforms. She has numerous placements in television and film both nationally and internationally.

Christine’s Mitsubishi commercial received over 7 million YouTube views. And her recent release garnered over 450,000 streams on Spotify. TREADING WATER is also available on her website at christineparkermusic.com

Performed by: Christine Parker
Written by: Christine Parker, Laureen Smith

Excited to announce that a song I wrote with pop artist Khiana was recently released.
 
"Happy For You" is available on Amazon, iTunes and Spotify.

Blues artist Lauren Anderson will be releasing a song on August 6, 2021 that we wrote with Sandy Ramos. Click here to pre-order the music from her website:  Lauren Anderson Music.

Artist Sasha Aaron debuted one of the songs we wrote together at the famed Bluebird cafe. It is called “If It Feels Right”. She plans to release our songs soon.

Officially graduated from the Music Licensing MasterClass created by Music Supervisor, Jody Friedman covering Film, TV, Ads, And Trailers.

Multi-Dove Award winning and Grammy nominated artist Cindy Morgan will be recording a song we wrote together and putting it on an upcoming album . Her autumn and eve release is amazing. Please check it out. It’s available on her website and all streaming services.

Country Bluegrass Artists Lindley Creek went into the studio to record a song I wrote with Jordan Rainer called EMPTY that is scheduled to release this Summer.

Shae Smolik actress/singer/model seen on Netflix, CBS, SYFY, Hallmark, Roku and in theatres is in the studio cutting a song I wrote with Chris Wommack which she will be releasing soon.  In the meantime, click here to hear her single that just came out called, "Don’t Take Him Down."

Please support my good friend author/musical artist Tyler Russell and his new single “Thinking ‘Bout You” coming out on May 21st. You can pre-save by clicking this link! He also sent me a studio version of a song we wrote together that is scheduled to release soon. So great to hear his new music.

Recent cowrites included a fun session working with Nancy Peacock of Washington Street Publishing and artist Clayton Jones. Congrats to Nancy's placement company for landing many songs on movie trailers and Hallmark movies.