Willy Beaman...
Since he was four years old, Willy has been addicted to keyboards. He started playing shows around Boston at 13 and was producing electronic tracks throughout middle school and high school. Willy attended Berklee College of Music on a scholarship where he studied electronic production and performance.
He left Berklee after auditioning for Lady Gaga and made it to the callbacks and eventually rehearsals. Joe Wilson (who was music directing Gaga at the time) took interest in Willy’s talent and offered him a gig with Kelly Rowland and Nicki Minaj as a keyboardist. Through word of mouth, he began performing with high profile acts including Demi Lovato, Nico and Vinz, Sky Ferreira, Katherine Jenkins, Chris Mann, Macy Gray, Cody Simpson and Greyson Chance. By the time he was 22, he was music directing and playing on the biggest stages in music.
After a few years of touring, Willy began calling his artist friends into the studio to work creatively with them. He became known for his versatility and his unbridled musical approach. His songwriting and productions have been heralded and featured in Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, The New York Times, J14, MTV,Broadway World, and have landed in the Billboard top 20 charts.
Willy began releasing his own music and caught the attention of prominent internet blogs. After creating a splash in the online stratosphere, he teamed up with artist friends, Nico & Vinz to put out his first major collaboration as an “artist-producer” through Warner Brothers. Their song "Hold it Together (feat. Willy Beaman)" circulated on the radio worldwide and has gathered millions of plays on Spotify.
While collaborating with Nico and Vinz, he co-wrote songs with Babyface as well as produced the official remix for David Guetta and Nico and Vinz’s single, “Lift me Up.”
In early 2018, Willy dropped his first original dance track through Tiesto’s label, AFTR:HRS, and it was promoted through Spinnin’, Dance Anthems, Sirius XM radio and by Tiesto.
At the same time, he teamed up with Adam Anders (Glee, Kally’s Mashup), to help produce and write for his company “Deep Well,” a subdivision of Capitol records. He spent a week in Argentina producing vocals for a Nickelodeon Show, “Kally’s Mashup” and continues to work with the Capitol artist roster to develop and produce for their talent, as well as TV soundtracks associated with Anders Media.
Willy urged Greyson Chance, who was previously signed by Ellen Degeneres, to quit college and come back to music. After a year of artist development, Greyson got signed to Lowly and then AWAL. Willy produced all of Greyson’s singles and Executive Produced his album, Portraits.
Portraits garnered well over 100 million streams. His biggest song, "Shut Up" has 60 million streams on Spotify alone and is still gaining listens. Greyson now tours internationally.
He worked with Malaysian actress/singer, Fazura and produced and co-wrote her latest single which became number one in Malaysia and went Platinum.
He produced original music for Matel and their “Pop Star Barbie” campaign.
He produced and developed an entire soundtrack for upcoming TV shows (To Be Announced).
Willy will be releasing new original songs soon (To Be Announced).