Friday, April 26, 2013

MacKenzie Porter: Canadian Phenom



This week’s grin is fantastic new Canadian artist MacKenzie Porter. Actually she’s not really new. Although only 23 she’s already a very successful actress, an accomplished classically trained violinist and she’s coming off her debut single “I Wish I’d Known”.
Longtime collaborator and artist Carolyn Dawn Johnson introduced me to Mac a few weeks ago and the three of us wrote a really cool song that her team decided would make a great 2nd single. The icing on the cake was this week having the privilege of co-producing the record with CDJ. We tracked at Benchmark sound (old emerald) studio with the freakishly talented Ilya Toshinsky and a host of the most in demand session players in the country. The track turned out incredible and Mac has done some phenomenal vocals. We’ll all spend another week or so on the song before mix and master and then to radio station/Video channel near you.

It’s always special when you’re involved in creating a song that is compelling enough for an artist to release as a single; getting to actually help make the record constitutes treasure indeed.


Happy Hunting!
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