Josh Cumbee
Joshua Kissiah Cumbee is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his artist collaborations with Armin van Buuren and as a songwriter for other artists. In 2015, he was nominated for an Album of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards for the album "Creo En Mí", which he co-wrote for Natalia Jiménez. Early life. After high school, in 2008, he enrolled in the music business program at University of Southern California in Los Angeles by personal invitation. He graduated in 2011. Start of the career. Already being a  student, Cumbee released songs on iTunes as an independent artist ("Find The Light", "I Do My Own Stunts", "The End", "How To Say This"). He was working on television as a composer, writing music for commercials, television shows ("The Bachelor", "Ready for Love", "America's Next Top Model", "Polyamory", "Southern Nights") and short movies. Cumbee's first official appearance in credits for the song happened in 2012. He did strings programming on Kerli's song "Immortal" which was part of the soundtrack album "Frankenweenie Unleashed!". Later, Cumbee was hired for the studio of Grammy winning songwriter Toby Gad where he  was writing, producing, playing instruments, programming and engineering music for other artists. He worked for Janet Jackson, Take That, Madonna, Chris Brown, Adam Lambert, Heffron Drive, Kygo, Sean Paul, Galantis, Sabrina Carpenter, Lindsey Stirling, Anastacia, Sia and many others. In 2015, Cumbee co-wrote 3 songs for Natalia Jiménez album "Creo En Mí" ("Creo En Mí", "Algo Brill En Mi " and "Tú No Me Quieres Más"). The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards but lost out to Juan Luis Guerra 4.40. Also in 2015, Sean Paul's album "Full Frequency" received a  Grammy nomination as Reggae album of the year, Josh was engineer on the track "Pornstar" from the album. Breakthrough. Work with Armin van Buuren. The single "Sunny Days" by Armin van Buuren featuring Cumbee was released on June 16, 2017 on Armada Music. It was written by Armin van Buuren, Benno de Goeij, Afshin Salmani, Josh Cumbee, Toby Gad and Gordon Groothedde. The music video was shot in Bevagna and Assisi, Italy. The single received double platinum status in the Netherlands. A special Christmas version of the song called "Christmas Days" was released on December 9, 2017. On March 29 , 2019 another collaboration with van Buuren "Don't Give Up On Me" was released. The song was made with Lucas & Steve. Cumbee and van Buuren performed live in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Vancouver and at Untold Festival in Romania. 2019 - 2020. In April 2019, Cumbee signed a contract with AVEX Group as recording artist. The single "Lifetime" by Zonderling featuring Cumbee and Damon Sharpe was released on August 23, 2019 on Armada. Collaboration with Fedde Le Grand "Dancing Shoes" was out on January 24, 2020, on Interstellar Label. On February 14, 2020, Cumbee released his first solo single "Sound Of  Your Name", with the music video filmed at Mount Myoko in Niigata, Japan by director Yudai Maruyama. The second single "Brave Enough" was released on March 13, 2020. The third single "Worth Missing" released on July 3, 2020. Its music video was filmed in Tokyo. Discography. Songwriting credits. 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020