Songwriter at Defend Music -  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Sp1VHQ8bdHhoNTKbrljyM

Twitter - www.twitter.com/sammyplotkin
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sammyplotkin/


Bio by Jacob Moeller -

Sammy Plotkin’s first introduction to music came in the womb, when his mother attended a Billy Joel concert while eight months pregnant with him, sparking what has since grown into a burning passion for brutally honest lyrics and emotionally driven ballads. Raised by music-loving parents to the eclectic tunes of Joel, Pat Metheny, Etta James, and Sting, Plotkin was exposed from an early age to a wide variety of musical influences, resulting in a hard-to-place sound that is part pop, part indie, and part soul. Though one thing remains constant: it’s all Plotkin. 
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts on May 11th, 1992 into a musical family, Plotkin wasted little time in his pursuit of music, taking his first singing lessons at age six. Two years later he was forced out of his comfort zone and onto the stage when his hyper-supportive parents managed to convince a director to let him sing a solo with the Dan Kane Singers at Symphony Hall in Springfield. Introverted by nature, Plotkin quickly identified music as the most natural form of expression available to him and dove headfirst into piano lessons and poetry. At 12, he met and began learning from piano teacher James Argiro, whom he credits with helping bridge his music and lyrics together to create his first complete songs. After submitting these songs to several local competitions, Plotkin caught the eye of Nashville music producer Cliff Downs. With the young musician balancing high school back home with trips to Nashville throughout, the two worked together on what would become Plotkin’s first album, Underground, which he released at the age of 14. 
After graduating high school, Plotkin enrolled at Belmont University in Nashville and began studying songwriting and music business. In 2012, he was awarded the ASCAP Songwriter Scholarship for a song he wrote with future pop star Meghan Trainor entitled “One Broken Heart Away.” Belmont’s proximity to Music Row allowed the budding musician to participate in internships with various music-publishing companies, the last of which, with Disney Music Group, brought him to Los Angeles for the first time, where he fell in love with the city’s diverse artistic landscape. After returning to Nashville to finish school, he packed up his Sterling Audio microphone, duet interface, and the laptop he used to record and transplanted to Los Angeles to pursue a full-time career in music.
The singer/songwriter and producer has kept busy since arriving in the city of angels, signing a publishing deal with Defend Music, a division of Kobalt Music Group, as well as collaborating with American Idol finalist Dalton Rapattoni, U.K. rapper Scrufizzer, and international recording artist Claydee. In 2016, Plotkin won first place in Adult Contemporary Music at the International Songwriting Competition for “Halfway Out Of Love,” a song he wrote with friend and American Idol finalist Rayvon Owen. The same year, he also released an EP titled Words Don’t Mean Much In This Town. Plotkin is currently at work on his next EP and is excited to continue building an honest and meaningful relationship with his audience while he explores himself through his music. “There’s always a chance I can truly connect with someone,” he says, “If I can make someone feel understood, then I feel understood.”

Luke Shrestha is an award winning record producer, songwriter, engineer, and musician based in Los Angeles California. Luke began his professional music career in 2010 playing organ for multiple churches all over California and from 2011 to 2013, he won multiple awards for his organ performances. In 2013, he moved out to LA to pursue a full time career as a record producer and songwriter. Since then he has worked on projects for artists such as 5 Seconds of Summer, Jessie J, Good Charlotte and Chance the Rapper.

In late 2011, Luke won multiple Phillip Lorenz Keyboard awards and multiple awards for outstanding jazz performances on piano. A few years later, he starting studying with Elizabeth Sellers, a distinguished student of Elmer Bernstein. Luke refined his musicality with many other distinguished composers and songwriters including Bruce Broughton, Timothy Howard, William Malpede and Jim Dooley. From 2014 to 2015, he worked for multi-platinum record producer John Feldmann on the 5 Seconds of Summer Record “Sounds Good Feels Good” which went number one on the Billboard 100. Also in 2015, he worked for multi platinum songwriters the Madden Brothers at their company MDDN. At his time their he worked on projects for artists such as Jessie J and Good Charlotte. In 2016 into early 2017, Luke started working for Om’mas Keith (Frank Ocean, John Legend), started a company with Simon Jay called Sound Tiger Songs that specializes in making radio ready productions for up and coming artists, and worked with hip hop artist James the Mormon who’s last album got to number one on the billboard charts. 

Luke currently is working with Chris Trousdale (Dreamstreet) and is working with composer Robert Irving on various movies and commercials. His most recently released works include “Pop Stars” by Conor Moriarty, “What Could’ve Been” by Tides, “Words Don’t Mean Much in this Town” by Sammy Plotkin, and “Indigo” by Phoenix Red. Luke is also continuing work with Sound Tiger Songs helping develop up and coming talent.

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If you watch TV and/or movies you have probably heard my music!

Michael Patti is a composer of music for media. He contributed original music scores for film, television, games and live events. Most recent projects include music for Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide. Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void and music for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. In 2015, Michael won the MPSE Golden Reel Award for original music for the League of Legends cinematic produced by Riot Games.
 
Michael is also the co-founder of sample library developer company Cinesamples, where they develop and distribute sample library instruments to composers around the world. He is also co-founder of Hollywood Scoring, a next-generation music production company in Los Angeles, created to offer the legendary musical resources of Hollywood to the world of new media.

Award winning composer and conductor (World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Revelation, Stargate SG-1, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Assassination Games)

Drew Mikuska is a film and television composer living and working in Los Angeles, California.  Most recently, Mikuska finished orchestrating and conducting Anton Sanko’s score for the upcoming Netflix feature Fracture (2019). This is his second collaboration with Sanko as orchestrator; their work on Sanko’s score for French feature Amanda (2018) was nominated for “Best Score” at the César Awards earlier this year.  Currently, Mikuska is completing additional composing & orchestration work in television for composer Layla Minoui on Disney’s Vampirina, Anton Sanko on Freeform’s Siren, and Leo Birenberg on Adult Swim’s Tigtone. Recent selected credits include: additional writing, arranging and performing as a vocalist on Dreamworks’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power for composer Sunna Wehrmeijer; additional writing on an upcoming Dreamworks series for composer Josh Moshier; and acting as scoring assistant for composer Patrick Kirst on Netflix’s hit The Kissing Booth.  Mikuska completed a Masters of Music in Screen Scoring in the Spring of 2017 at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music after finishing a Bachelors of Music in Composition at USC in 2016. During his time at USC, he was awarded the ASCAP Betty Rose Award & Scholarship, which is presented each year to an "outstanding, promising composer participating in The ASCAP Foundation Composer-in-Residence Program at the University of Southern California."  In addition, Mikuska has been selected to participate in a variety of prestigious professional scoring workshops.  He completed a fellowship in the 2018 Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive under the mentorship of Conrad Pope, William Ross and Angel Velez after taking part in the 2017 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis, through which he was recognized with the ASCAP Foundation Michelle and Dean Kay Award for his achievements.  He also took part in the 2016 NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop.  During his time in LA, he also has had the privilege of writing for, assisting and interning for several other outstanding film composers, including Joe Trapanese, Jake Monaco, Peter Bateman, Gabriel Mann, Peter Golub, and at Remote Control Productions.  For more info, click here.  To listen to more original music in addition to the highlights below, click here.

Jeff makes game soundtracks, relaxing music, and has done some cool stuff like record violin parts for Steven Universe.

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