5/12/2023 0 Comments Friday the 13th by Justin Gray![]() ![]() It’s “an easier way for our songwriter community to collaborate, network, pitch and monetize music,” says the MDIIO website. To solve the problem for himself and his peers, the Los Angeles-based Canadian, through his company Songistry, has launched a service called MDIIO. “There is very little communication between co-writers after the fact, and If I were to draw a circle around their relationships - their managers, their publishers - that grew very frustrating for me, not being able to organize that data,” says Gray. Gray had a personal problem he needed to solve: How could he upload and quickly search his songs in a database, preferably from his smartphone, in order to pitch a song for a placement? And how would he know if his co-writers have pitched it, and to whom? Still, he’d grown “completely dismayed” with how poorly organized songwriters are – “including myself,” he readily admits. ![]() He’s worked with John Legend, Luis Fonsi, Mariah Carey and Joss Stone, and had song placements in movies like Sisters, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Oz The Great and Powerful, and in TV shows like Hawaii Five-0 and Hannah Montana. Justin Gray has had a 25-year career as a professional songwriter, amassing a personal catalogue of some 1,500 songs. ![]()
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