Emery Dobyns is an American

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, and

songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

, formerly based in

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, but now based in

Nashville Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

. Dobyns won a

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for engineering ''

Beauty & Crime ''Beauty & Crime'' is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's '' Songs in Red and Gray'' and her first for Blue Note Records. It was released on July 17, 2007. ''Beauty & C ...

'' by

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. He has recorded and mixed for the likes of Sia,

Lou Reed Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades. Althoug ...

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, and

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. He has produced, recorded and mixed albums by

Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album '' Horses'' made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fu ...

, Noah & The Whale,

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, Mt. Desolation,

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, Parlour Tricks,

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, and Fran Healy. Other artists he has worked with include

Leona Naess Leona Kristina Naess (also spelt Næss) (born 31 July 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. She released her debut album, '' Comatised'', in March 2000, which produced the single "Charm Attack" (Adult Top 40 #29). Naess was raised in Lond ...

, Young Rival,

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, O.D.B., P. Diddy,

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, and

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. His work has accumulated over 600,000,000

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to date. In 2024 he began working with

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as a mixer, mixin
'From The Void'
an
'Nevertheless'
He recently collaborated with

Sam Hollander Sam Hollander is an American songwriter. He has collaborated with Panic! at the Disco, One Direction, Fitz and the Tantrums, Weezer, blink-182, Train, Ringo Starr, Carole King, Katy Perry, Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, Billy Idol, Def Leppar ...

, co-writin
"A Better Song"
for

Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is a musician, most notably a trombone player, from New Orleans, Louisiana. His music fuses rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop. Biography Andrews was one of s ...

for the 'Jam Van' YouTube series created by

Bill Sherman Bill Sherman is an American composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is known for his work on ''In the Heights'', ''Hamilton'', and ''Sesame Street''. Sherman is also a member of Team Supreme that co-hosts the Questlove Supreme podcast ...

. Dobyns produced and mixed "The Masked Singer EP" for

Jewel (singer) Jewel Kilcher (born Juel Kilcher on May 23, 1974), mononymously known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter. She has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide as of 2024. Jewel was raised near Home ...

. He co-produced the latest album from

, Super Magick. His songs and productions have been heard on TV shows such as "Lucifer",

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and others. Ad placements include

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and

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. Selected songs include "Roots" with

Morgxn Morgan Isaac Karr, better known by his stage name morgxn, is an American indie pop singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Early life Morgxn was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. After college, he moved to New York City to act in theater. ...

, "Tell That Devil" (featured as the

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theme song and on

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, "Alone Together" (with

Jamie Lidell James Alexander Lidderdale (born 18 September 1973), known professionally as Jamie Lidell, is an English musician, soul singer and podcast host. Lidell was formerly a part of Super Collider. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, US. Career Lidel ...

and featured on

) and "Hold The Phone" (with Tor Miller.) He also has several musical projects with

Samuel Dixon Samuel Dixon (born 1973, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian record producer, songwriter and musician, based in London. Dixon has produced and written with artists including Adele, Sia, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Paloma Faith ...

in which he co-writes and sings.

References

External links

Emery Dobyns on Discogs
– Discogs page
Emery Dobyns on Twitter

Make & Model on Soundcloud
Living people Record producers from New York (state) American audio engineers Songwriters from New York (state) Musicians from New York City People from Manhattan Year of birth missing (living people) Engineers from New York (state) {{US-record-producer-stub