Charlie Puth

And this guy named Jeff Levin, who I ironically work with today at Atlantic Records, reached out and linked me up with this songwriter named Michael Keenan.

And he would work a lot with Melanie Martinez and

have all these super credible acts to come out.

No, he reached out because Jeff...

Jeff Levin linked us up together they're still to this day they're friends and I always wanted to integrate jazz my jazz piano into pop music and he was one of the first songwriters who came over to my house and told me that I could do that and also Rick Markowitz who I believe is a manager now still makes music but it's all of these I started to get to know people in the music world in the record label side of things which I don't know is super exciting to hear but

Got to give a shout out to them, too, because I would work with Mikey and he would play these chords on them.

Actually, on that Juno 60 over there.

And it was super warm and sounded like Lionel Richie and had like kind of an R&B flair kind of to it.

it was the first time where i believe i successfully was able to integrate my love of jazz into what could could have been a pop record nobody cut those records because they were weren't that good but they were a lot better than what i was making on my own just just being in the youtube world um and then jeff levin would hear the records that i made with mikey and then flew me out to

Actually, no.

So then someone else flew me.

This is the part that Jeff doesn't love to hear.

Someone else flew me out and then signed me and then I wrote see you again.

But it all worked out because now I work with Jeff today.

So there's a lot that I see.

I haven't let people into my life.

So I don't expect you to know a lot of this stuff.

But yeah, but my goal on this whole run for the next two years is to let people know my life about my life.

started off on youtube yeah with uh i know a song that you don't like very much but i also oh god what is it sexy shades oh my ass just clenched when you said that but yes i'm okay i was i was 18 i actually like that song i made it on garage it's a great song i made it on garage band it's catchy there's a reason people like it connect with it

There has to be.