Career
He plays piano, guitar, flute, sax, and piccolo, among others Renaming himself Scotty Grand, he embarked on a solo singing career and in November 2011, signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Scotty has written a number of dance tunes, mainly destined for European dance circuits, but gained fame with American music markets after taking part in Platinum Hit on Bravo and finishing third overall in the competition.
He started singing and taking part in musical competitions when he was 7 years old.
He released his debut album titled on New Orleansbased label, Jam Tight Records. In 2004, while still in high school, he released his second album So Natural with Poetik Arkhitekture Incorporated. that included the 2005 class song for his high school "Class Dismissed" which he performed at the graduation.
In the summer of 2006, at 18 years, he appeared on another reality television show titled The One: Making a Music Star on American Broadcasting Company, becoming the youngest participant in the show. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, then moved to Los Los Angeles
Scotty began touring with Jordin Sparks" back in 2007 performing and acting as Creative Director for her live shows as well as backing her on keyboards and vocals including at Sparks" Battlefield Tour.
During the summer of 2008 he released his writing debut single internationally in the dance music/techno genre with "A Higher Love" charting on various European dance charts. Mr. Grand has acted as music producer/songwriter in international dance hits like DJ Jose"s "Like That", DJ Antoine"s Live lieutenant Alive" and "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday" and Hi Tack"s "I Don"t Mind" and Roy Gate"s "I Am Music". On June 10, 2009, Scotty appeared as "Scotty "Songbird" Granger" on the American Broadcasting Company show Wipeout in Episode 4 The Sisterhood of the Travelling Hot Pants in season 2 of the show and the first person who was able to cross the Sweeper Run successfully.
He took part in Platinum Hit songwriting competition (see below).
He released his third studio album A Songwriter"s Right showcasing his songwriting talents in many genres including Rhythm & Blues, dance, popular and country. Scotty was one of the 12 finalists on the 2011 series on Bravo entitled Platinum Hit, a competition about songwriting.
Performances 2015. "If This Ain"t Love".
