Todd Wright (musician)

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Todd Wright
Origin Leesburg, Virginia
Genres Pop, Rock, R&B, dance, Country
Occupation(s) Songwriter (lyric, melody, music)

Todd Wright is a songwriter and musician from Leesburg, Virginia. He has contributed many songs to popular culture including multiple placements in TV and Film

Career

Todd started out as a drummer before getting the itch to move from behind the kit to the front of the stage to allow his story telling abilities to really shine. After having success with GetawayCar and having their song 'Superstar' featured in the national ad campaign for Pontiac Vibe, Todd appeared alongside Butch Walker on his album Cover Me Badd, the two performed a duet of Elvis Costello's hit "Alison". Later, Todd toured with Lucy Woodward in support of her record While You Can. Todd also toured with Pat McGee Band and played shows with Better Than Ezra.

Todd has moved into full on songwriting and producing mode, trading in the touring lifestyle for traveling to write in Nashville, Los Angeles, NYC as well as International writing trips to the Netherlands, Germany and France. Todd, developed Chelsea Lee who went on to sign a record deal with Atlantic records and currently Todd is writing and producing for Cassidy Ford whom has already signed a publishing deal with Young Guns Publishing out of Nashville and released and EP, Skin & Bones. Several of those songs ended up on Nick at Nites 'Hollywood Heights'

Todd took on an ambitious project, 40x40, to write, record and produce 1 song a week for 40 weeks. This 40-week project generated money and awareness for Juvenile Diabetes as well as produced four complete albums. While working on this project Todd signed a publishing deal with PEN Music and alongside PEN, Todd is continuing to build a career as a songwriter and producer.

Alongside Mary Ann Redmond, Todd has penned a duet, "L'amour peut prendre froid", for French superstar, Johnny Hallyday and International superstar Celine Dion released late 2012. For this song, Todd and Mary Ann received the Washington Area Music Award for songwriters of the year and song of the year (2012)

Most recently Todd co-wrote a song that was released by Avicii label mates Cazzette. The Swedish duo released the single, Blind Heart, written by Cazzette, Ash Pournouri, Ivo Moring, Todd Wright and Terri B! aka Terri Bjerre.

Discography

TV and Film Placements:

References

External links

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