Stig Rästa
Stig Rästa has been in the music industry for over 20 years, establishing him as one of the top songwriters in Estonia. He has his own solo project and is also a part of electronic music duo ‘Kisma.’ Their first single ‘We Are’ was released in 2017 by No Copyright Sounds and has been played over 7 million times on Spotify and Youtube.
In 2015, he represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest with his song ‘Goodbye to Yesterday’, which placed 7th in the final. The song has over 12 million streams on Spotify and won ‘Song of the Year’ award at Estonian Music Awards in 2016. Stig has written for many award-winning artists such as Victor Crone, Joakim Lundell, Elina Born, Traffic and Karl-Erik Taukar.
Stig co-wrote ‘Storm’ by Victor Crone, which represented Estonia in Eurovision in 2019 and kick-started Victor’s further career.The song was played over 15,000 times on Swedish radios. Stig was also the writer for ESC 2016 Estonian entry song ‘Play’ by Jüri Pootsmann.
Karl Killing
Karl Killing, at mere 22 years old, has immensely proven himself over the past few years in the Estonian music scene. He is actively working with many loved Estonian hip-hop and rap artists such as 5MIINUST, säm, Pluuto, nublu and villemdrillem.
Two years ago, Karl participated in the Eesti Laul contest (Estonia’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest) where he placed 7th with his song ‘Kiss Me’. His solo project kick-started in 2020 when he released his debut single ‘High Heels’, which came out with Canadian record label found/red. This year was massive for Karl as he signed to Warner Music Baltics, released a video single ‘powerless’ with them, and intends to release his first album in 2022. While his solo project is on the softer, pop side, for his producing, he definitely has a weakness for hip-hop.
Hugo Martin Maasikas
Hugo has a solo project Whogaux and is also part of two successful EDM projects WATEVA and Cartoon. Cartoon’s most successful track ‘On & On’ has 170M+ streams on Spotify and 400M+ on Youtube, making them an absolute flagship in Estonia’s electronic music scene.
Hugo has released music with many well established record labels such as Armada Music, Selected, NCS, Future House Music, Enhanced Music and Liquicity. Hugo with this talent and passion for sure has a lot to provide for the lovers of fine electronic music.
Gevin Niglas
Gevin Niglas is a producer for a number of different award-winning artists such as nublu (Estonian Male Artist of the Year 2019 and 2020) and 5MIINUST (Artist of the Year 2020). In 2021, nublu released his debut album ‘Café Kosmos’, where Gevin co-wrote/co-produced four songs. The album was very well received by both critics and Estonian radios. In 2020, they produced ‘paaristõuked’ by 5MIINUST together with Karl Killing and ‘niiea’ by Elina Born and Villemdrillem – both some of the most played songs on Estonian radio that year.
Gevin is also actively working with several new stars in Estonian music scene like Maian, Heleza and Anett Kulbin. In 2021, he started working on his solo project. “My solo project – I’d say it’s trap-rnb influenced pop. When I write or produce for others, I don’t have a specific favourite genre – everything that’s authentic is appealing to me,” Gevin says.
Giorgio Spedicato
Giorgio Spedicato, born in 1992, is an Italian musician and music producer. He’s been making music since 2012 with the moniker Machweo and is currently an author and producer within Sony Music Publishing Italy.
In the last ten years he released music for many independent Italian and American music labels (Lefse, Hyperjazz, Maciste among others) and he played more than 200 live shows in Italy and other European countries. In 2019 he played at Eurosonic Nooderslag and in the summer of the same year he imagined and conducted a radical impro concert with a band composed by James Holden, Emma Jean Thackray, Populous, Any Other, Bienoise and many more.
Giorgio signed with Sony Music Publishing in 2020 and he devoted his music career to writing and producing music as an author since then. He won a golden album in 2021 as the author for Cuore Amaro, which is the song sung by Gaia at Sanremo Music Festival in 2021.
Vincenzo Colella
Vincenzo Colella is a songwriter signed at Sony Music Publishing. He wrote songs for Marco Mengoni, Annalisa, Rosa Chemical, Giorgia, Gianna Nannini, Gaia, Luca Carboni and many more. He also has his own artist project called LACRAY with Sony Music Italy.
Baltimora
Edoardo Spinsante, also known as BALTIMORA, is a singer, songwriter and producer from Italy. At 14 years old he started recording local artists in his house which later became a reference studio for his home town, Ancona. After school he moved to Milan and signed a publishing and recording deal with Sony Music Italy, also due to him winning the 15th edition of X Factor Italy. Since then he’s been working in the industry with various artists, published his own EP, dubbed a Pixar movie and more.
Therry M-L
Therry M.L. is a French multiplatinum music producer, songwriter and artist. Discovered by David Guetta’s management team, Therry wrote some of the biggest urban pop hits of the last decade in France with his producer duet LNT. He is now embarking on a solo journey, working on his own artist project « Johsef » and using his A&R skills to help artists define their sound and vision. His main music collaborations are with Céline Dion, David Guetta, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Wyclef Jean, Soprano , TAL, Zaho, Grand Corps Malade, Hippocampe fou, Ralph Beaubrun, and Olivier Dion.
Cato van Dyck
Cato van Dyck has been active in the music industry from a very young age, growing up in a musical family and playing her first shows from the age of 9. Since 2013 she has been the front woman and personification of the band MY BABY conquering stages all over the world such as Glastonbury, Pinkpop, Sziget and Lowlands. Cato has a remarkable voice and style and takes her inspiration from seventies funk like Sly & the Family Stone to the electronic alternative pop of Little Dragon. MY BABY has been praised for their unique sound and approach and Cato is interested in sharing her experiences as a touring musician, a songwriter and likes to help you finding your own style and voice.
Brynja Mary
When she was 13, Brynja was in a Danish tv show called “En sang Fra hjertet” and recorded a song with one of Denmark’s biggest producers. At 14 she signed her first publishing deal. Then when she just turned 16 she competed in the Icelandic national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with an original song that she had written at the age of 14. She’s been working with people all over the world in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Los Angeles, London, Canada, Spain and the Netherlands.
In February 2021, Brynja signed a record deal with Universal Music Group as a duo with her sister (Sara Victoria) called EYJAA. Their first single, Don’t Forget About Me, charted as number 3 on Denmarks’ Airplay Chart Top 100 for over 16 weeks and it became the song of the week in Denmark alongside their second single, The Wrecking Crew, that received the 4th place on the Airplay Chart Top 100. Their 3rd single, Ultraviolet, also did very well and ended up getting the 3rd place on the Icelandic radio for Most Popular Played Songs of the Month in April 2022.
Brynja has always loved performing and it’s one of her favorite things to do besides writing. She’s performed a lot in LA and Spain and on live television for the Eurovision Song Contest national final. Next to that, she performed support shows as her duo EYJAA and a few festivals in the summer of 2022. She also studied at the Wisseloord Academy from 2020 – 2021 and after that she’s been studying professional dance and performing in Copenhagen and Los Angeles.