Josh Cumbee

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Josh Cumbee
Birth nameJoshua Kissiah Cumbee
Born Anaheim, California, United States
Origin Irvine, California, United States
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • music producer
Instrument(s)
  • Piano
  • guitar
  • bass
  • French horn
  • xylophone
  • trumpet
  • drums
Years active2009–present
Labels AVEX Group
Website https://joshcumbee.com

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.

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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. [1]

Early 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") [2] and short movies. [3]

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!". [4]

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. [5]

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"). [6] The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards but lost out to Juan Luis Guerra 4.40. [7] Also in 2015, Sean Paul's album "Full Frequency" received a Grammy nomination as Reggae album of the year, [8] [9] [10] Josh was engineer on the track "Pornstar" from the album. [11]

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. [12] The music video was shot in Bevagna and Assisi, Italy. The single received double platinum status in the Netherlands. [13] A special Christmas version of the song called "Christmas Days" was released on December 9, 2017. [14]

On March 29, 2019 another collaboration with van Buuren "Don't Give Up On Me" was released. [15] 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. [16]

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. [17]

Collaboration with Fedde Le Grand "Dancing Shoes" was out on January 24, 2020, on Interstellar Label. [18]

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. [19] The second single "Brave Enough" was released on March 13, 2020. [20] The third single "Worth Missing" released on July 3, 2020. Its music video was filmed in Tokyo. [21]

Discography

Singles

As solo artist

  • Sound Of Your Name (2020)
  • Brave Enough (2020)
  • Worth Missing (2020)
  • Armin van Buuren feat. Josh Cumbee - Sunny Days (2017)
  • Armin van Buuren feat. Josh Cumbee - Sunny Days (Club Mix) (2017)
  • Armin van Buuren feat. Josh Cumbee - Christmas Days (2017)
  • Armin van Buuren x Lucas & Steve feat. Josh Cumbee - Don't Give Up On Me (2019)
  • Armin van Buuren x Lucas & Steve feat. Josh Cumbee - Don't Give Up On Me (Club Mix/Trance Mix) (2019)
  • Zonderling feat. Josh Cumbee - Lifetime (2019)
  • Zonderling feat. Josh Cumbee - Lifetime (VIP & Acoustic) (2019)
  • Fedde Le Grand & Josh Cumbee - Dancing Shoes (2020)

As vocalist

  • AFSHeeN - Let Me Down Slow (2016)
  • AFSHeeN - Tunnel (2016)
  • Florian Picasso - Final Call (2016)
  • Lazy Rich - Knock Me Out (2016)
  • Florian Picasso - Guns Down (2017)
  • Florian Picasso & GRX - Restart Your Heart (2020)
  • Timmy Trumpet & Florian Picasso - Armageddon (2020)

Songwriting credits [23] [22]

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2022

2023

Music for films

  • Check Engine (2010)
  • Chance (2010)
  • Launch (2011)
  • Big Feet (2011)
  • Two Tickets to Paradise (2011)
  • Operation Terror (2012)
  • Spark (2014)

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