Kevin Kadish
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Kevin Kadish is an American songwriter and record producer. He co-wrote, produced, and mixed the 2014 multi-platinum single "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the second best-selling song of 2014 in Australia and the eighth best-selling song in Germany and the UK. The song received two more nominations at the 57th Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Kadish began playing guitar at the age of 13. After graduating high school, Kadish attended Berklee College of Music and studied Film Scoring. In 1991, Kadish transferred from Berklee to the University of Maryland, College Park where he designed his own major, Music Management, through the Individual Studies Department. He graduated in 1993 with a B.S. in Music Management.
Throughout the mid-1990s, Kadish toured the East Coast as a solo, acoustic artist, opening for Hall & Oates, Vertical Horizon, Dave Mathews Band, Jeff Beck, SR-71, Marcy Playground, Everything, and others.
In 1998, Kadish signed a development deal with Republic Records as a solo recording artist. He recorded with the producer Steve Addabbo in NYC's Shelter Island Sound, but no album was ever released
In 2000, Kadish met record producer Matt Serletic who signed him as his "staff-writer" to Serletic's co-venture with Warner/Chappell Music. While under the wing of Serletic, Kadish co-wrote "Be There For You" and "Don't Fade Away" on Willie Nelson's album The Great Divide. He also co-wrote the songs "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" and "Stuck" for pop singer Stacie Orrico which appeared in the television shows The Simple Life and That's So Raven, as well as the film Robots. These two hits have been featured on several compilations which have sold nearly 11 million copies, cumulatively. In 2005, Kadish received an ASCAP Christian Music Award for Stacie Orrico's "(There's Gotta Be) More To Life" for being one of the most played songs on Christian radio.
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