Education
He took to music instantly and throughout his youth studied piano, trombone, tuba, saxophone and everything else he could get his hands on.
He took to music instantly and throughout his youth studied piano, trombone, tuba, saxophone and everything else he could get his hands on.
In high school he discovered jazz and focused his musical passion on the trombone, which ultimately earned him a scholarship to William Paterson University in New Jersey. Throughout college he also freelanced as a trombone player in and around New York City and San Francisco playing everything from weddings and parties to some of the cities top jazz clubs. A dedicated jazz aficionado, it wasn"t until after college that busbee actually began discovering the vast world of popular, rock, Rhythm & Blues and soul.
A few years later, his new fascination with popular music led him to Los Angeles where he got a job working for the well-known producer Eric Valentine.
A year later, he started freelancing as a producer and began writing more. In 2006, a friend invited him to Nashville to write songs there.
Within a few months busbee landed a publishing deal with Crosstown Music through Nashville super-producer Dann Huff. He experienced his first success as a songwriter in Nashville penning the hit single "Summer Nights" for Rascal Flatts, which went to #2 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart.
Shortly thereafter he scored his first #1 on that same chart with the song “Our Kind of Love” by Lady Antebellum, and followed that up with the first single from Hunter Hayes called "Storm Warning.”
Around the same time, his career in popular music took off as well. busbee co-wrote the #1 United Kingdom single "Bad Boys" for Alexandra Burke, featuring Flo Rida and then got his first taste of worldwide popular success with the single "If We Ever Meet Again" for Timbaland featuring Katy Perry that same year.
He went on to write the hit single “Dark Side” for Kelly Clarkson and then penned the #1 single "Try" for P!nk. Additionally, busbee has written and/or produced for a broad range of acts including Mercury, P!nk, Shakira, Ingrid Michaelson, Keith Urban, Daughtry, Rascal Flatts, Jason Aldean, Gavin DeGraw, Blake Shelton, Dia Frampton & Kid Cudi, Backstreet Boys, Scotty McCreary and many others He has had massive chart success all over the world with #1 hits in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, and Japan and has released several albums as an artist under the names busbee, GoNorthToGoSouth, and Bombs Over Nowhere.
In 2013 he signed a multi-faceted publishing deal with BMG Rights Management which included a joint-venture publishing company of his own.
