busbee

busbee
Background information
Birth name	Michael James Ryan Busbee
Born	Walnut Creek, California
Origin	San Francisco Bay, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, record producer, publisher, musician
Website	www.busbeemusic.com

Michael James Ryan Busbee, known as busbee, is an American songwriter,^[1] record producer, publisher and musician from the San Francisco Bay area.

Biography

Born in Walnut Creek, California, busbee was introduced to music at the age of 7 when his parents enrolled him in piano lessons. 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. In his junior year of college he was honored with The Frank Rosolino Memorial Scholarship award recognizing him as the top college-age jazz trombonist in the world. 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 pop, rock, R&B 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,^[2] 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,^[3] and followed that up with the first single from Hunter Hayes called "Storm Warning.”

Around the same time, his career in pop music took off as well. busbee co-wrote the #1 UK single "Bad Boys" for Alexandra Burke,^[4] featuring Flo Rida and then got his first taste of worldwide pop success with the single "If We Ever Meet Again" for Timbaland featuring Katy Perry^[5] 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, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, 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 US, UK, Italy, and Japan and has released several albums as an artist under the names busbee, GoNorthToGoSouth,^[6] 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.

Discography

Songs written

Production and co-production

Other songs

• Cris Cab – "The Truth", "The Sun Is Gonna Rise Again"
• Eliza Doolittle – "I'm in Love With You”
• Edurne – "Pretty Boy"
• Duncan – "Light Up The Sky”
• Mickey G. – "Safe"
• Genevieve – "Stay Here Please", "Better”
• Girls Generation – "Chain Reaction"
• Danny Gokey – "I Still Believe"
• Francesca Michielin – "Il più bell'abbraccio"
• Ryan Star – "Stay Awhile" Single'
• Jordy Towers – "Money Money”
• Westlife – "Get Away”
• Elliott Yamin -"In Love With You Forever", "The Bridge Is Burning"

References

External links

• The official website of busbee
• Interview, HitQuarters 4 Apr 2011