MACKIE Magazine August-Sept Issue 4 Magazine Issue # 5 July 2013 | Page 6

Most people travel to the valleys of
heartache or endure the eye of life’ s
tempest before they can emerge with
songs that grip the human
experience; but Nathan Brumley
went hiking. Following high school,
he spent his formative years as a
contractor building recreational trails
to high mountain lakes and fishing
parks in the heart of the Rocky
Mountains of Idaho. Shorlty after
finishing his last season of
trailbuilding, he won Embassy
Music’ s national songwriting contest
in 2000 which subsequently led to
his move from Boise, ID to the
music mecca of the south
Nashville, TN. He’ s previously had
2 publishing deals with
Embassy Music and Brandon
Hills Publishing and has
completed his 5th full length
album. He is currently the
second place winner in the USA
Songwriting Competition
and was voted best 14 acts of
the Southeast by Discmakers
2007. His music is clearly remindful
of piano banging crooners like David
Gray, Ben Folds Five, and Gavin
Degraw. In addition to that, Nathan is a writer for the Songs Of Love Organization which writes customized songs for kids with terminal illneses. He has had 3 songs picked up by Warner Brothers Telepictures Music and was the artist of the month with them in March 2009-also the same month that he had a hold with“ Grey’ s Anatomy.” Nathan was also a second place winner in the 2009 Music City Songwriting Competition, is on a rock compilation ablum called“ The Next Big Thing In Rock”, and was rated # 17 in the college market in 2009 for his album“ Where You Move Me.” He has also been featured on Nashville’ s Lightning 100 new artist spotlight in July 2009. His film placements include: Life Unexpected, Ugly Betty, and Palisades Pool Party.
Accomplishments:
Won national songwriting competition to win publishing deal in 2000 with Embassy Music-Started doing background music for commercials at age 15-Had an A & R deal with Incubator Records at age 19-Had a record deal with Bethel Records at age 20-Song hold with ' Grey ' s Anatomy '-Film placement with ' Life Unexpected ' and ' Palisades Pool Party '- Film licensing with ' Keeping Up With The Kardashians ', ' Real World ', ' Road Rules ', and‘ Road Rules Challenge’-2nd overall in 2008 USA Songwriting Competition-2nd overall in 2009 Music City Songwriting Competition-Discmakers 2007 Top 14 Acts of the Southeast-Lightning 100 featured upcoming artist of the week-July 2009-Warner Brothers / Telepictures Music artist of the month for film placement-March 2009
-Co-written for Leona Lewis, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Rowland and Brittany Spears with LA based producer‘ Mynority’- Publishing deals with Embassy Music, Paradiso Music and Brandon Hills Publishing-Film catalogue / licensing deals with Gotham Records, Transition Music, Wits End Films, K & W publishing, Human Factor LLC, Machiavelli International Music
Images( Italy), Telepictures Music, Trailer Park Avenue, and Noteborn Music-Album“ Where You Move Me” was # 17 in the college radio market-May 2009-Has cuts with local Nashville artists: Ten Mile Drive( country), Robert Mauti( R / B Christian), Whitney Spray( country), Abby Guss( jazz / rock), Bailey Birge( country)
Brandon Maddox( country), Jara Johnson( country), Olivia Dunkle( pop / Christian)
Wendy Duffy( pop), Rebecca Lambert( country), Shawn Tyler Gray( pop Christian), Amber Brigman( Contemporary Christian), Arlene Gutierrez( R / B Christian),
Angela Josephine( pop Christian),
Jennifer Willoughby( pop Christian), Candice
Clark( pop / rock), and Joe Nash
( country).
Is currently a staff writer with the Songs of Love Organization- a company that creates 6