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About Ryan Martinez, American Idol Songwriter Finalist
Born and raised in New York but now living in Los Angeles, Martinez made his way to California to live the decadent lifestyle of a rock star and, somewhat less importantly, to attend U.C.L.A.
His first foray into the world of professional songwriting began in 1994, when he was offered a single song contract by Seymour Glass/EMI publishing.
Martinez was recently a finalist in the 2007 American Idol songwriting contest for his song "Waking in a Dream" and just signed a four song deal with Crucial Music in Los Angeles in 2008.
More recently, Martinez won the Grand Prize in the 12th Annual Unisong contest, edging out thousands of entries from both amateur and professional writers.
In July of 2009, he signed a publishing deal with Country songwriting legend Charlie Craig and Power Play Publishing for his composition "Watch Her Fly" which he co-wrote with Rolf Schnyder.
His songwriting is focused in the areas of Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary as well as Contemporary Country music and he looks forward to collaborating with the great artists and writers in these genres.
Thanks so much, man -- am going to put "Power" up now that we have so much space on MySpace. Just posted a new demo that would have been submitted to the AI contest this year if they had one -- it's called "This is the Year".
My new single "I Can't Kiss Me" just became available at ITUNES and you can watch the video at YOUTUBE. The full album comes out on Aug 11th! Here's the video!
