Program Description
NARIP welcomes the producer behind Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown’s hit “No Air” to discuss how to produce hit songs and develop artists to recognition.
NARIP PROGRAM NUMBER: P172
PROGRAM DATE: September 22, 2011
PROGRAM TIME: 2 hours, 34 minutes, 57 seconds (23457)
About
ERIK “BLUETOOTH” GRIGGS
Born in Cleveland Ohio and raised in St Louis, Missouri, Erik “Blu2th” Griggs has always been extremely musical. His mother says he started playing the piano when he was a few months old. But he didn’t stop there, he went on to pick up the guitar at 18 years old, bass about a year later, and drums in 2009. He is also a successful songwriter with a Grammy nomination for “No Air” (Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown). Blu2th is upwardly mobile in the biz, having moved to California in 2005. He now has his own label, Piano Man Entertainment where he developing his own artists and produces and writes for other acts.
BEN BIDLACK, Producer, Bees & Honey Music (Co-Moderator)
Ben is Head Producer at Bees & Honey Music, a boutique music one-stop-clearance catalog covering all genres, with and without vocals, for feature film, trailers and TV. Composed/produced for Jerry Bruckheimer, ABC, NBC, Fox Searchlight, KO Creative (trailers), Mojo House (trailers), Universal Picture, R&B songs for Phat Girlz (Fox Searchlight, 2006) and score for JumpRopeSprint (Sundance, 2012), Tyra Banks, Chris Rock and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Performed with Chick Corea, Isaac Hayes, Edgar Winter, Doug E. Fresh.