Kevin Kadish

Early life

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Kadish began playing guitar at the age of 13. After graduating high school, Kadish attended Berklee College of Music and studied Film Scoring. In 1991, Kadish transferred from Berklee to the University of Maryland, College Park where he designed his own major, Music Management, through the Individual Studies Department. He graduated in 1993 with a B.S. in Music Management.

Career

Throughout the mid-1990s, Kadish toured the East Coast as a solo, acoustic artist, opening for Hall & Oates, Vertical Horizon, Dave Mathews Band, Jeff Beck, SR-71, Marcy Playground, Everything, and others.

In 1998, Kadish signed a development deal with Republic Records as a solo recording artist. He recorded with the producer Steve Addabbo in NYC's Shelter Island Sound, but no album was ever released.

In 2000, Kadish met record producer Matt Serletic who signed him as his "staff-writer" to Serletic's co-venture with Warner/Chappell Music. While under the wing of Serletic, Kadish co-wrote "Be There For You" and "Don't Fade Away" on Willie Nelson's album The Great Divide. He also co-wrote the songs "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life" and "Stuck" for pop singer Stacie Orrico which appeared in the television shows The Simple Life and That's So Raven, as well as the film Robots. These two hits have been featured on several compilations which have sold nearly 11 million copies, cumulatively. In 2005, Kadish received an ASCAP Christian Music Award for Stacie Orrico's "(There's Gotta Be) More To Life" for being one of the most played songs on Christian radio.

Also in 2005, Kadish collaborated with singer/songwriter Jason Mraz on his sophomore effort, Mr. A-Z, producing and writing both singles ("Wordplay" and "Geek in the Pink") For his work on this record, Kadish was nominated for Best Engineered Album at the 48th Grammy Awards in 2005.

In 2006, Kadish received the SOCAN award for his No.1 "Flawed Design" by Stabilo. In 2007, the song also received the SOCAN award for greatest number of plays on Canadian radio in 2006.

From 2007 - 2011, Kadish worked on and wrote on records from Gloriana, to Miley Cyrus, and from Meat Loaf to Victoria Justice.

In 2012, Kevin co-wrote and produced "Crazy For You" for Ross Lynch, "Rooftops" for American Idol winner Kris Allen.

In September 2013, Kadish co-wrote "All About That Bass" with Meghan Trainor. The song became the third best-selling song of 2014, and was also the 14th most-viewed YouTube video ever, with more than 1.7 billion views. However, in September 2015, Kadish claimed to have earned just $5,679 as a result of the song being streamed to 178 million people, telling a meeting arranged by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary: "That's as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career and number one in 78 countries. But you're making $5,600. How do you feed your family?"

In 2015, Kadish worked with artists such as Christina Aguilera, A Great Big World, Jennifer Lopez, Fifth Harmony, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, amongst others.

Other songwriting credits include work with and for Michelle Branch (Warner Bros.), Taylor Hicks (Arista), Joe Jonas (Hollywood), Skillet (Lava/Atlantic), BC Jean (J Records), Tal Bachman (Sony), Bif Naked (Lava/Atlantic), Lucy Woodward (Atlantic), Evan Taubenfeld (Sire/WB), Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe), Steve Perry, Kris Allen (Jive Records), Billy Currington (Mercury Nashville Records), Canaan Smith (Universal Nashville), Plain White T's, etc.

Singles

Notable collaborations

Kadish has collaborated with the following artists/songwriters:

Past projects

Kadish co-wrote and produced "Rich Kids" for the band New Medicine's debut album Race You to the Bottom, released September 28, 2010 on PhotoFinish/Atlantic.

He contributed acoustic guitars and backing vocals, and co-wrote the Miley Cyrus song "Two More Lonely People" for her album Can't Be Tamed.

He also co-wrote "Narcissistic Boiz" on the upcoming J Records release from artist BC Jean.

Kadish's wife, Brandon Jane, is one-half of the duo Coldwater Jane. Kadish co-wrote and produced songs on their album Marionette.

Kevin co-wrote and produced the song "Try Try Try" for Universal Germany artist Michael Squire. Kadish co-wrote this song with Jason Mraz for the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things., but it was not used on Mraz's album. "Try Try Try" was the first single from Squire's upcoming debut album Your Love Grows in the Sunshine. Kadish also produced the follow-up single for Squire, "Gimme Feeling".

He co-wrote and produced End of The World for A Great Big World's second album When The Morning Comes, released November 13, 2015.