Looking for Monty Powell?  You don’t have to look far, he is usually hanging around somewhere at the top of the radio charts. He is also easily found on any one of the 50 million plus records floating around containing one of his songs.  As a music business veteran for nearly 25 years, Monty Powell has successfully honed his songwriting craft and found his niche as a songwriter who often collaborates with such artists as Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Chris Cagle, James Otto, Jo Dee Messina, Chuck Wicks, Diamond Rio, Lady Antebellum and many more.

Apart from songwriting, Powell is also an accomplished music producer.  He co-produced Diamond Rio’s first three albums, two of which are now platinum and one is gold, as well as Keith Urban’s critically acclaimed band The Ranch for Capitol Records.  In 1994, he won a CMA “Album of the Year” award for his production work on Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. In addition, Powell produced Working Man’s Blues” by “Jed Zepplin (Steve Wariner, Lee Roy Parnell and Diamond Rio) on the highly acclaimed Mamma’s Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard. Recent Powell productions include Chuck Wicks, and Jazz singer Anna Wilson.

Powell has also had roles in artist management,.  Over the past five years, management clients have included Muzik Mafia member, James Otto (Warner Brothers), Trent Tomlinson (Lyric Street) and Chuck Wicks (RCA).

Over his twenty-five year career as a professional songwriter, Powell has written for Several major music publishers.  He currently writes for Universal Music Publishing. Powell’s top honors among his many career highlights were his 2006 CMA nomination for “Song of The Year” with Keith Urban’s, Tonight I Wanna Cry and his sweep of the 2009 SESAC awards taking Song of the year, Songwriter of the year and Publisher of the year.

In addition to the many hats Monty wears, he also finds time to donate his talent to charitable causes like St. Jude, T.J Martell, and Habitat For Humanity, but the cause closest to his heart is the Alzheimer’s Association.  Powell’s father died from an early on-set of Alzheimer’s, so Monty decided to use music as his weapon to fight this terrible disease.  In November, 2007, he took action by creating an initiative called better start livin’ that was inspired by his mega hit “Days Go By”, penned with superstar Keith Urban.  Together for the first time in concert, Powell was joined by Urban, Anna Wilson and rising star, Matt Jenkins at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, GA, where they raised over $250,000 in a single evening to fund Alzheimer’s research.

Monty remains the “go to” songwriter for many of musics biggest stars and continues to place songs in to the #1 slot on the charts and on multi-platinum selling albums. When he is not riding the bus with Keith, Lady A or Rascal flatts, you can find him in Nashville,ß chasing fish with a fly rod on the gulf coast of Florida or skiing down a black diamond run on the slopes in Utah.

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