Christopher Michael DeStefano is a Grammy Award-winning American singer/songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist currently living in

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. As a songwriter, he has multiple #1 songs with artists

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( “Good Girl”, " Little Toy Guns"),

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( “Hey Girl”),

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(" Don't Ya"),

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(" That's My Kind of Night", " Kick the Dust Up" ),

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& Carrie Underwood (" Somethin' Bad," later reworked as the opening theme for ''

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''),

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( "Rewind") and

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(" Just Gettin' Started"). DeStefano was raised in

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and graduated from Lenape High School in 1993. He was in the school's music program while playing with a

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band in the area. Underwood's " Good Girl", which DeStefano co-wrote, reached number 1 on

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in 2012. He also co-wrote and produced

's number 1 single " Don't Ya". He co-wrote “ Something in the Water” sung by Carrie Underwood which was the #1 song for seven weeks, the 3rd longest running female #1 Hot Country song in chart history. DeStefano co-wrote " Kiss Somebody" (July 2017) with Australian singer, Morgan Evans, and fellow American songwriter,

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. At the APRA Music Awards of 2018 the song and its writers won Country Work of the Year.

Discography

Songwriting discography

Production discography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Destefano, Chris American country record producers American country songwriters American male songwriters APRA Award winners Lenape High School alumni Living people People from Mount Laurel, New Jersey Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Burlington County, New Jersey