
Keith Follese grew up in the music rich scene of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has spent most of his music career dividing time between Los Angeles and Nashville. Keith’s relentless drive and
songwriting talent has rewarded him with many top songwriting honors. Keith has been named both ASCAP and BILLBOARD magazine’s SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR as well as being Grammy nominated.
Starting in 1994 Keith had #1 singles with Randy Travis’ “Before You Kill Us All” and Little Texas’ “Life Goes On”. Since then, Keith has held the #1 Single chart position for a record 15 weeks: Faith Hill’s “The Way You Love Me” (4 Weeks #1), Tim McGraw’s “Something Like That” (5 weeks #1), Martina McBride’s “I Love You” (Runaway Bride) (5 weeks #1), Lonestar’s “Smile” (1 week - #1).
In 2002, “The Way You Love Me” from Faith Hill’s 8x’s Platinum “Breathe” was awarded ASCAP’s Country “Song of the Year”. “The Way You Love Me” went on to become a POP/AC hit in the United States and all over Europe.
Keith was also the CEO of Midas Music. In June 2007, when Midas Records scored a top ten single with “He was a good man” by Emerson Drive written and produced by Keith and followed it up with #1 Country Single “Moments”. He co-wrote two songs on the debut Lady Antebellum record including the hit single “Looking for a Good Time”. Keith has written songs with artists as diverse as Katy Perry, John Oates, Marc Anthony, Hot Chelle Rae, Timothy Schmit, Jamie Johnson and Jo Dee Messina to name a few. He co-produced and wrote three songs on the first Hot Chelle Rae record and was instrumental in getting them signed to a major label.
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Ryan Keith Follese is an award-winning songwriter and artist from Nashville Tennessee. He first came to prominence as lead vocalist of Hot Chelle Rae, the RCA Records pop/rock quartet known for hits like 'Tonight Tonight' and I Like It Like That.' In 2012, Hot Chelle Rae won the American Music Award for best new artist and has since racked up more than 500 million audio streams. The band appeared on multiple morning, primetime and late night television shows including The Today Show, Live With Kelly and Ryan, Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve With Ayan Seacrest, America's Got Talent, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Hot Chelle Rae toured the world frequently as both headliners and as primary support with Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, The Script. Third Eye Blind and many more. In 2017 Ryan embarked on his solo country career at Big Machine Records and quickly became a Sirius XM Highway Find with hits 'Float Your Boat' and 'Put a Label On it.' He toured extensively in the U.S. and Australia with Sam Hunt, Maren Morris and Florida Georgia Line. Ryan has written for numerous commercials and television shows including the Taylor Swift/T-Pain mash up 'Thug Story on the 2010 CMT Music Awards and the upcoming theme to CBS's newest reality competition show, 'Superfan.' Ryan has written with Mike Posner, Taylor Swift. Blackbear, Rodney Clawson, Jimmy Robbins, Andrew Goldstein, Evan Bogart, Rami Yacoub, and many more. Ryan continues to live and write out of Nashville.
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Adrienne Follese’ was raised in a musical family. Her mother, Jerrie Anger was a singer with her own radio show on KFRC in San Francisco. Her father, Maurice Anger was an accomplished jazz pianist and a leader of his own orchestra. Adrienne has been playing and singing music as long as she can remember. Her parents used to hold her up to a microphone to sing when she was too small to reach it. Adrienne said,” I have always been lucky enough to write in both the country and pop genre. I appreciate all kinds of music”. She has written with Katy Perry, John Oats, Hot Chelle Rae, Jo Dee Messina, Kenny Chesney and Timothy Schmit of the Eagles. She said,” I was lucky enough to sing with Timothy, and I think that was the only time in my life I was a little star struck.She also co-wrote and sang all the background vocals on the BMLG release of Ryan Follese’.She has had cuts on Martina McBride “I Love You” (Runaway Bride)(5 weeks #1), Jo Dee Messina “Dare to Dream”, Lady Antebellum “Long Gone”, Jon Pardi “Borrowed Time”, Johnny Reid “It Started With a Child” and Hush “Used to be You”. Adrienne
started writing when she was 13. She plays both guitar and piano. She said “I love writing songs, I never grow tired of it. From the beginning notes and ideas, to the work tapes , to the building of the tracks. Then the vocals, harmonies and the final mix. I love bouncing lines and ideas off of other writers. One word or a few chords can turn into a song. I love all of it”. She now spends most of her time writing and developing new artists, both in country and pop.