Josh Cumbee
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- Singer
- songwriter
- music producer
Josh Cumbee | |
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| Born | Joshua Kissiah Cumbee Anaheim, California, United States |
| Origin | Irvine, California, United States |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | AVEX Group |
| Website | https://joshcumbee.com |
Joshua Kissiah Cumbee is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his artist collaborations with Armin van Buuren and as a songwriter for other artists.
After high school, in 2008, he enrolled in the music business program at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He graduated in 2011.[1]
Early career
Already being a student, Cumbee released songs on iTunes as an independent artist ("Find The Light", "I Do My Own Stunts", "The End", "How To Say This"). He was working on television as a composer, writing music for commercials, television shows ("The Bachelor", "Ready for Love", "America's Next Top Model", "Polyamory", "Southern Nights")[2] and short movies.[3]
Cumbee's first official appearance in credits for the song happened in 2012. He did strings programming on Kerli's song "Immortal" which was part of the soundtrack album "Frankenweenie Unleashed!".[4]
Later, Cumbee was hired for the studio of Grammy winning songwriter Toby Gad where he was writing, producing, playing instruments, programming and engineering music for other artists. He worked for Janet Jackson, Take That, Madonna, Chris Brown, Adam Lambert, Heffron Drive, Kygo, Sean Paul, Galantis, Sabrina Carpenter, Lindsey Stirling, Anastacia, Sia and many others.[5]
In 2015, Cumbee co-wrote 3 songs for Natalia Jiménez album "Creo En Mí" ("Creo En Mí", "Algo Brill En Mi " and "Tú No Me Quieres Más").[6] The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards but lost out to Juan Luis Guerra 4.40.[7] Also in 2015, Sean Paul's album "Full Frequency" received a Grammy nomination as Reggae album of the year,[8][9][10] Josh was engineer on the track "Pornstar" from the album.[11]
