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Charlie Peacock

Charlie Peacock is a Grammy award-winning, multi-format songwriter, publisher, record producer, and filmmaker. He has worked in pop, gospel and jazz music in various capacities from songwriter to Sr. A&R with EMI and Sony/ATV. His credits include Brooke Waggoner, Ten Out of Tenn, Switchfoot, Sixpence None The Richer, among hundreds. Film and TV music credits span from Fame in the 80s to current shows Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars. The music producer also helmed the Poison & Wine EP by The Civil Wars which features the breakout hit from Grey’s Anatomy, “Poison & Wine”; produced the song “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” by Isaac & Anna Slade (The Fray); and executive produced and performed on Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman’s latest EP sets titled Fall & Winter and Spring & Summer.

A long-time advocate for social justice, Peacock continues to work directly with International Justice Mission and The ONE Campaign, a fruitful relationship that began in 2002 when he hosted co-founder Bono and, later, ONE President David Lane, putting them in front of Nashville’s artist community. Peacock’s most recent album is the improvisational duo recording he made with Dave Matthews Band saxophonist, Jeff Coffin. Titled Arc of the Circle, the album peaked at No. 2 on the College Music Journal Jazz Charts in 2008. Charlie is Co-Executive Director of Art House America, and Sr. VP of A&R for Twenty Ten Music.

Letter to a Young Musician

Your songs and performances will tell stories, as will your life. Make sure both of them are true and winsome.

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