Mike Busbee
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| Born | Walnut Creek, California |
| Origin | San Francisco Bay, California, United States |
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| Website | www.busbeemusic.com |
Michael James Ryan Busbee, known professionally as busbee, is an American songwriter, record producer, publisher and musician from the San Francisco Bay area.
Born in Walnut Creek, California, Busbee was introduced to music at 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 he 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. Within a few months he 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, which went to #2 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart. Shortly thereafter he scored his first #1 on that chart with the song “Our Kind of Love” by Lady Antebellum. He followed it with the Hunter Hayes's "Storm Warning”.
Around the same time, his career in pop music took off as well. He co-wrote the #1 UK single "Bad Boys" for Alexandra Burke, 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 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.
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