Posts tagged as "songwriting"

Stephan Moccio Influences – Canadian Songwriter and Pianist

August 21, 2020

Hit songwriter (Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd, Céline Dion) turned peaceful pianist Stephan Moccio shares six of his biggest musical influences from the worlds of pop, jazz, and classical music. Stephan Moccio’s new album Tales Of Solace is out now to stream, download, or own The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky I am going to say the […]

Stephan Moccio Interview – A New Day Has Come

June 12, 2020

You may not know his name, but you know his music. Canadian composer and performer Stephan Moccio is the songwriter behind Miley Cyrus’s global smash hit ‘Wrecking Ball’, ‘Earned It’ – The Weeknd’s sensual ballad from the Fifty Shades of Grey film soundtrack – and Céline Dion’s triumphant 2001 comeback ‘A New Day Has Come’. […]

Simon Armitage, UK's poet laureate, forms post-rock band LYR

February 10, 2020

Genre-blending post-rock supergroup LYR is comprised of current UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Pearson. Having signed an exclusive record deal with Mercury KX, the band have released their debut single, ‘Never Good With Horses’, accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Australian Matthew Thorne. Thorne recently […]