American music producer
Graham Marsh
Origin
Georgia , U.S. Genres Pop, rock,
blues , soul,
urban ,
R&B ,
hip hop ,
funk Occupation(s) Producer,
mixer , writer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist Years active 2005–present Member of
CLAVVS Website
grahammarshmusic .com
Musical artist
Graham N. Marsh (born September 27, 1979) is an American record producer, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist from
Georgia . He has helped produce four
Grammy Award -winning albums from sixteen nominations.
[1] He is also half of the
Brooklyn
indie pop duo
CLAVVS with singer-songwriter Amber Renee.
[2]
[3] Marsh began releasing songs from his instrumental project Draigh in early 2019.
[4]
Career
Marsh is a graduate of
Full Sail University 's Recording Arts program.
[5] He started his career in
Atlanta working at
Jermaine Dupri 's "Southside Studios" for
So So Def Recordings where he worked with
Janet Jackson ,
Mariah Carey ,
Nelly and
Bryan-Michael Cox . While at Southside Studios, Marsh met
Dallas Austin 's engineer/programmer, Rick Sheppard and was hired to work at Dallas' DARP Studios. Marsh worked at DARP as an assistant to Dallas and Sheppard, engineering recordings for
Natalie Cole ,
George Clinton ,
Joss Stone ,
Sugababes and
Lionel Richie .
[6]
Marsh steadily became in very heavy demand as more people became aware of his amazing talents as an engineer. He has engineered, produced and given his multi-instrumentalist talents
[7] to a very long list of well known megastars including
Asher Roth ,
Fantasia ,
Leona Lewis ,
Estelle ,
Nas ,
Travie McCoy ,
The Constellations ,
Plies ,
Ciara ,
Amerie ,
Juvenile ,
Ludacris , "Rick Ross",
Common ,
Novel ,
Kelis ,
Kid Cudi ,
Chase & Status , The Teddybears, and
Bruno Mars .
[8]
[9] In recognition of his engineering talents Marsh was nominated for "Outstanding Creative Achievement" at the 27th annual TEC Awards.
[10]
Marsh met
CeeLo Green at one of his freelancing jobs which proved to be a Grammy winning union. Marsh and CeeLo Green formed the production team The Grey Area to work on music that would be mainstream hits. He collaborated on
Gnarls Barkley 's
The Odd Couple and CeeLo's 2010 multi-platinum smash "
Fuck You " from
The Lady Killer album.
[11] The result of this collaboration was Graham receiving two Grammy nominations,
[12] with one win for
Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the song "Fuck You".
[13]
Marsh met Amber Renee in summer of 2013, and the pair started writing songs together under the name CLAWS (eventually changed to
CLAVVS ). They released their first singles in 2015.
[14] CLAVVS' music has been featured on
the CW 's
Charmed and
MTV 's
Teen Wolf .
[15] They have earned praise from
NPR ,
The Line of Best Fit , and
Consequence of Sound , among others.
[16]
[17]
[18]
Grammy Awards
Graham Marsh has won four Grammy Awards from sixteen nominations.
Discography
References
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"Home" . clavvs.com .
^ Castro, Guillermo. "Steady Climb the Mountain: A CLAVVS Journey." Immersive Atlanta.
http://immersiveatlanta.com/steady-climb-the-mountain-a-clavvs-journey/
^ Nasko. "Palm Draigh." Stereofox. 24 March 2019.
https://www.stereofox.com/draigh-palm/
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"53rd Annual Grammy Awards: All five Album of the Year Nominees Featured Grads" . fullsail.edu . Full Sail University. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
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"Demo Listening Session 3" . South by SouthWest. 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2014 .
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"SXSW Guide" . austin2012.sched.org . Sched.org. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
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"Graham Marsh Discography" . discogs.com . Discogs. Retrieved July 28, 2014 .
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"27th Annual TEC Awards Nominees Outstanding Creative Achievement" . tecfoundation.com . NammFoundation. Archived from
the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
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"Cee Lo, Marsh, Marroquin interview extras" . emusician.com . NewBay Media. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
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"NEWS/ Complete List of Nominees for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards" . eonline.com . E! Entertainment Television, LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal. December 4, 2008. Retrieved July 28, 2014 .
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"GOSSIP: 2010 Grammy Nominees" . radionowindy.com . RadioNOW Indy. December 29, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
^ Castro, Guillermo. "Steady Climb the Mountain: A CLAVVS Journey." Immersive Atlanta.
http://immersiveatlanta.com/steady-climb-the-mountain-a-clavvs-journey/
^ "CLAVVS TV & Film Sync Placements." Tunefind.
https://www.tunefind.com/artist/clavvs
^ Thompson, Stephen. "The Austin 100:CLAVVS." NPR. 5 March 2019.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/696720261/the-austin-100-clavvs
^ Williams, Pip. "CLAVVS’ “Violet Sea” is a boldly minimal taste ahead of forthcoming EP release." The Line of Best Fit. 21 March 2019.
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/clavvs-violet-sea
^ Schatz, Lake. "CLAVVS reveal the Origins of new song “Echo”: Stream." Consequence of Sound. 15 November 2018.
https://consequence.net/2018/11/clavvs-echo-song-premiere-origins/
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"2014 Grammy Nominee: Bruno Mars" . CBS.com . CBS Interactive. Retrieved July 28, 2014 .
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"Grammy Nominations 2012" . phcityonweb.com . PhcityonWeb. February 10, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2014 .
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"All Music" . allmusic.com . AllMusic, a division of All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .