Placement Music team members are relevant professionals currently writing with, recording with, touring with and/or producing records for major recording artists.
Our creative team includes a GRAMMY-winning producer/engineer/mixer responsible for engineering some of the biggest rock records of the past decade (selling in excess of 35 million records), and songwriters, composers and instrumentalists who have played on and/or penned numerous hit singles.
Russ-T Cobb is a producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose credits include Avril Lavigne, Butch Walker, Bowling for Soup, Sevendust, Tim Brantley and Family Force 5. Cobb has toured as a guitarist with Rehab, and played on countless records. Read More »
Composer/guitarist Mark Dannells is a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Post graduation, he joined several touring bands that performed thousands of dates over the next several years. Read More »
Nick DiDia has engineered some of the biggest rock records of the past decade, including Pearl Jam (five albums), Stone Temple Pilots (five albums), Bruce Springsteen (four albums) [...] Read More »
An accomplished songwriter and producer, Detroit native Jared Lee Gosselin has collaborated with Indie.Arie, Macy Gray, Floetry, Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole and D-12. Read More »
Two-time GRAMMY® nominated, drummer/percussionist Steve Moretti has over 17 years in the music industry. Recognized for his musicianship and versatility in multiple styles, Steve has performed with numerous vocal and instrumental artists from Michael McDonald, Toni Tennille, Michael Brecker, Arturo Sandoval and Lionel Hampton to The Coasters, The Pointer Sisters and Louie Bellson. Read More »
Derek Murphy is an accomplished drummer and session musician. He has recorded and toured with GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter Angie Aparo for the last 11 years, and co-produced Aparo’s last record. Read More »
Tony Reyes is an accomplished songwriter, producer, guitarist, bassist and keyboardist. He has worked with a multitude of artists including Gwen Stefani, Shakira, Natalie Cole, Anastacia, Janet Jackson, Staind, Kelis, Christina Milian, and Sugababes. Reyes garnered significant attention for his writing skills with major songwriting contributions on the Introducing Joss Stone and Elliott Yamin records. [...] Read More »
Chris Rickwood is an award-winning composer known for creating dramatic musical scores for video games, film, and television. Rickwood’s work can be heard worldwide on a variety of mediums for clients such as Activision, THQ, Microsoft, Cartoon Network, Capcom, and Nintendo. He began his career by composing intense orchestral cues for several game titles including [...] Read More »
Ritchie Rubini is a producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his musical career, Ritchie played the drums in The Caulfields, who toured nationally and internationally and had two albums released on A&M Records. Since then, Ritchie has played on countless major and indie releases. Ritchie has co-written and produced songs that have been placed on [...] Read More »
Kevin Spencer began his career as a musician/writer/producer at age 15 with the Vancouver rock band The Misunderstood. His groundwork with The Misunderstood led to his participation in more than 20 records, and 40 tours including Lilith Fair. Spencer was the youngest person on the Lilith Fair tour, and it landed him in Rolling Stone. [...] Read More »
He has made countless television appearances, including Saturday Night Live, Letterman, Leno, Conan and the GRAMMYS. Read More »
