Featured Artist: Phil Kershaw

This week’s featured artist/songwriter, Phil Kershaw is from beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Together Phil and I have produced 3 songs. I always enjoy Phil’s positivity and trust in our team to take his songs from a very basic guitar/vocal demo stage and transform them into soulful soundscapes with our talented session musicians and vocalists. For this song, “The Bells”, we wanted to have a more Contemporary Christian approach with some undertones of soulful gospel elements. We chose to go with… [Read More]

Featured Artist: Simon Strauss

“Four Winters” is a recent production that StudioPros has produced for Australian songwriter Simon Strauss. His music falls into the folk, acoustic, rock genre. I have had the pleasure of working on Simon’s music for several years now. Catchy melodies and meaningful story-telling lyrics are at the core of what Simon’s music is about. So if you have a moment please take a listen and hope you enjoy. My favorite element of this production is the throwback sounds of the… [Read More]

Featured Artist: Artist D’Elle

When Artist D’Elle contacted me about producing a roots-blues Americana track “Truth Be Told”, I was so excited. As a folk artist myself, the picture she had painted about her song and vision really resonated with me. We had talks about finding a way to produce the music that took you back to a Mississippi front porch. Picture sitting on the front porch picking on an old beat up acoustic guitar as musicians join in. The first goal, find the… [Read More]

StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners!

First Annual StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners Over 300 talented pop songwriters submitted to StudioPros first annual pop songwriting contest in just 2 weeks time. Wow! Well done everyone. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I have to say, there were so many great submissions that we had a really hard time making a final decision. If you submitted a song and you didn’t win, please don’t get discouraged. Keep on writing! We still want to help you professionally produce your song… [Read More]

StudioPros Welcomes New Male Vocalist! Meet Michael.

We wanted to officially welcome the newest member to the StudioPros vocalist team. Meet Michael. As a born and bred Cajun man, the spirit of the Delta runs deep in Michael’s blood. From the moment he could speak he was singing everything from blues tunes to R&B and soul music. As he progressed and his love of music grew, he began performing live at age 11 in local bars and clubs, taking crowds by surprise with his soulful vocals and… [Read More]

Communicating With Session Musicians

Communication. The root of a lot of sessions that go wrong as well as relationships in general not working out comes down to this word COMMUNICATION. After years of working on productions in all styles, languages with different personalities, I thought I’d throw together a quick blog on what I have seen WORKS. Keep it short. Musicians in general don’t like to read. I have seen clients write paragraphs upon paragraphs of changes that they’d like to have made. What… [Read More]

The Importance of Work For Hire

You’ve written a great song. You have a strong melody, lyrics, the musical structure is set and you have a vision for the production. The next step is finding the right team of musicians, engineers and producers to help you bring your vision to life. As an independent artist you come across a lot of decisions that can make or break your career in the industry of songwriting and pitching your songs to film and tv. Decisions such as: What… [Read More]

StudioPros Welcomes NEW Female Vocalist! Meet Alice.

Help the StudioPros team in welcoming our newest addition to our female vocalists. Meet Alice. Alice is an industry recognized singer, writer, and artist with over 20 years in the recording industry. A ragin’ cajun from Louisiana, she specializes in adding a little down home soul and some fiery spice to each project. Now in Los Angeles, she’s known as a true vocal chameleon with the ability to sound like a number of popular singers like Amy Winehouse, Nelly Furtado,… [Read More]

Featured Artist: Fern Walker Jones

This month’s featured artist, Fern Walker Jones is a Texas based singer/songwriter. I especially enjoyed working with Fern on this song as it was tapping into the smooth jazz side of our team and the musicians had so much fun with the more intricate instrumentation on this song! To capture a smooth jazz feel, we started out the production with our saxophonist taking a lead solo to kick start the production and set the tone for the piece. What follows… [Read More]

StudioPros Welcomes New Producers!

Now that we have the holidays behind us and are feeling things slow down from the festivities, I wanted to check in with some exciting new updates for 2019! We hope this New Year brings fresh musical ideas and steps forward to making your musical goals a reality. StudioPros has welcomed 2 new producers recently to join our talented team. Help me welcome Dom Williams and Courtney Jones to the team! Dom Williams Dom studied music theatre at Penn State,… [Read More]

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