Wayne Cohen is an American songwriter, producer, artist developer and music educator whose songs include Top 10 hit singles and #1 albums, which have sold more than 5 million, in the US, UK, Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Asia. He works from his NYC studio Stand Up Sound, as well as in London and Los Angeles.

Discography

Song Artist Release Label Notability Credits Year Not Anonymous Jamie Lee Harrison Not Anonymous (single) Jamie Lee Harrison - UK writer, producer 2022 True To You (Do Do Do) Jamie Lee Harrison True To You (Do Do Do) (single) Jamie Lee Harrison - UK writer, producer 2022 The Way (Go Go Go) Jamie Lee Harrison The Way (Go Go Go) (single) Jamie Lee Harrison - UK writer, producer 2021 Dream Enough Sitti album: Sitti: Sessions Warner Music Philippines, Rhino Records USA writer 2012 (PHL) 2013 (US) Firelight Thousand Hours album: Dark & Light Stand Up Sound writer, producer 2013 Aligned Thousand Hours album: Dark & Light Stand Up Sound writer, producer 2013 Light Me Up Thousand Hours album: Dark & Light Stand Up Sound writer, producer 2013 Detonate Thousand Hours album: Dark & Light Stand Up Sound writer, producer 2013 Some Kind of Beauty Thousand Hours album: Dark & Light Stand Up Sound writer, producer 2013 Are You Willing Rachelle Spector album: Out of My Chelle Genius 4ever Records Produced by Phil Spector writer 2010 Love Live On Laura and the Tears album: Love Live On! - EP Smack single: BBC Radio 2 playlist writer, producer 2009 Special Boris album: Rely On Me BMG #1 Album writer 2005 Never A Day Goes By Alsou album: Alsou Universal writer 2002 Rewind Precious album: Precious, four CD compilations, single EMI single: #11 on UK Charts writer 2000 Love Keep Us Together Martin Sexton album: The American, two CD compilations Atlantic writer 1998 Nowhere and Everywhere Michelle Lewis album: Practical Magic soundtrack Warner Certified gold, writer 1998 Nowhere and Everywhere Michelle Lewis album: Little Leviathan Warner first single on album writer 1998 Read My Mind Conner Reeves album: Earthbound, compilation CD Wildstar single: #19 on UK Charts writer 1998 Catch up to Your Heart Eric Bibb album: Me To You Code Blue writer, producer 1998 Between a Woman and a Man Eric Bibb album: Me To You Code Blue writer 1998 Nothin' Like You Used To Do Eric Bibb album: Good Stuff EarthBeat! writer 1998 24 Hour Love Robin S. album: From Now On Atlantic writer 1997 Love Keep Us Together Martin Sexton album: Black Sheep Kitchen Table Records writer 1996 Caught in the Rain Martin Sexton album: Black Sheep Kitchen Table Records writer 1996 Never A Day Goes By Jennifer Love Hewitt album: Jennifer Love Hewitt Atlantic writer, producer 1996 Don't Push The River Jennifer Love Hewitt album: Jennifer Love Hewitt Atlantic writer, producer 1996 Last Night Jennifer Love Hewitt album: Jennifer Love Hewitt Atlantic writer, producer 1996 The Greatest World Jennifer Love Hewitt album: Jennifer Love Hewitt Atlantic writer, producer 1996 How I Wanna Be Loved Dana Dawson album: Black Butterfly EMI single writer 1996 Can't Stand in the Way of Love Jennifer Love Hewitt album: Let's Go Bang Atlantic writer 1995 Just a Step From Heaven Eternal album: Always & Forever EMI single: #8 on UK Charts, multi-territory hit single writer 1993 Sleeping With the Lights On Curtis Stigers album: Curtis Stigers Arista UK Albums peak position 7, hit single writer 1991 The Man You're Gonna Fall in Love With Curtis Stigers album: Curtis Stigers Arista UK Albums peak position 7 writer 1991 Count My Blessings Curtis Stigers album: Curtis Stigers Arista UK Albums peak position 7 writer 1991 The Last Time I Said Goodbye Curtis Stigers album: Curtis Stigers Arista UK Albums peak position 7 writer 1991 Nobody Loves You Like I Do Curtis Stigers album: Curtis Stigers Arista UK Albums peak position 7 writer 1991

Song Film/TV Placement Credits Year Need You Deep City Girl Diaries - Style Network TV show writer, producer 2013 Instrumental Library Cover Shot - TLC cable TV show writer, producer 2008 A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do) Summerland - WB TV writer, producer 2007 Score and songs The Sound - indie feature film by Roger Majkowski writer, producer, music supervisor 2005 No More Next Time (performed by Kit Hain) The Young and the Restless - daytime soap writer, producer 2001 Not the One (performed by Michelle Lewis) Jack and Jill - WB TV series writer, producer 2000 Nowhere and Everywhere (Performed by Michelle Lewis) Practical Magic - WB feature film writer 1998

Artist Developer

In addition to his many released songs, Wayne is known within the music industry to have made significant contributions to the development of the careers of multi-million selling Clive Davis-signed blue-eyed soul artist Curtis Stigers, singer/songwriter Martin Sexton, singer/songwriter Michelle Lewis, Australian indie pop/rock artist Dimitra, UK artists Thousand Hours, Laura Welsh (Laura and the Tears) and US artist Karen Kanan.

Business Ventures

Wayne owns Stand Up Sound/Stand Up Songs/Wayne’s World (ASCAP), a NYC-based music and audio production company, recording studio (see citation), and independent music publishing company. His company runs a robust internship program, which has hosted many student interns from the US and the UK. He also has co-publishing ventures with Sony Music Publishing.

Educator

In addition to his three decades of real-world experience, Wayne has taught Melody Writing, Lyric Writing, Music Production and Music Marketing at university-level institutions including the State University of NY at Purchase College, New York University (the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch and Steinhardt divisions) and at Berklee College of Music. He has also developed a song tutoring (see citation) course that benefits songwriters around the world, in person, and via Skype.

Early life

Before becoming a songwriter, Wayne was a music creative director, composer and producer for visual media. He started his career at age 21 as the youngest music and radio producer in the history of ad agency Young & Rubicam, followed by a long stint with major NYC based advertising music production company HEA Productions. His advertising accomplishments include composing and producing music and audio for international television/radio ad campaigns for advertisers including Coca-Cola, Burger King, Amtrak, U.S. Army, and Dr. Pepper. Prior to his work in advertising Wayne earned his Independent Learning - jazz studies B.A. from Indiana University, and performed across the US and in the UK in jazz and rock bands.

References

External links

Sitti "Dream Enough" video Laura and the Tears "Love Live On" video