Bastien Corné is a musician, composer and music teacher. He obtained a master’s degree in musicology at Paris Sorbonne and a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance at the University of Montreal. He currently performs on stage with artists like Coco Bans or Le Noiseur.
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Nouri Avery
Noah Avery is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He studied vocals at the Herman Brood Academy, and now writes for different artists. He believes stories are the most important part of a song and the instrumental should be a perfect fit. Noah has worked with artists such as: Wulf, De Hofnar, Miss Montreal, Thomas Nan, George Holliday, Collin Jax and Robbie Mendez.
Daimy Lotus
Since early childhood singer and songwriter Daimy Lotus has been involved with music, singing and dance. Even at the tender age of five she could be found performing at the yearly cultural market in her home town. In 2009 she decided to pursue a career in songwriting as well.
In May 2015 she released her debut EP named ’15’ including her first single Saturday Girl and second single Cannonball which she got acknowledged for by Dutch radiostation 3FM by naming her Serious Talent. Other radiostations followed along. For this EP she worked closely together with Martijn Konijnenburg (aka Tienus). She played at many festivals and did a Dutch tour through twenty different cities.
Now her focus is on songwriting. After writing songs and performing them for her solo project for several years, she decided to focus on writing for other artists as well. Therefore she has written with a variety of songwriters, producers and artists like Filous, Janieck, Joshua Hardy, Kameron Grae, Marlon Roudette, PollyAnna, Roxanne Emery and TV Noise.
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.