Kelly Center April 6, 2024

Matt Santry     http://mattsantry.com

Matt began his career as a social worker. While working with children with Autism, he started using music in an intuitive way. “Whether we’d bang on a drum or sing a song or I would just play the guitar, music was part of every day.” 

Then one moment changed the way Matt looked at music. His client, mostly nonverbal, sang an entire Christmas song, line for line, by himself. In awe of this interaction, Matt was inspired to begin writing his own songs. 

15 years later, Matt continues to search for that human connection through his own music. His journey has taken him across the country performing at over 100 colleges, on festival bills with the acts like The Lumineers and Counting Crows, and sharing stages with Joshua Radin, Brett Young, and Delta Rae to name a few.

Matt Cusson   www.mattcusson.com

Matt is a Grammy-nominated, multiple award-winning singer, pianist, songwriter, producer, and arranger. In addition to recent tours with Christina Aguilera, Megan Hilty, Dave Koz, and India.Arie with Javier Colon, Matt has worked with many of the world’s biggest artists, including Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Anderson Paak, Dua Lipa, CeeLo Green, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, mentors Brian McKnight and Livingston Taylor, and many, many more.

You can hear Matt’s music on an array of albums from artists of different genres, multiple movies and TV shows, and massive collaborations with NASA and LifeTime among others. Recently, Matt arranged Irving Berlin’s “Count Your Blessings” for the New York Pops with conductor Steven Reineke, played at Carnegie Hall. And with the many arrangements you can hear of Matt’s all over the world, his version of “How Deep Is Your Love,” arranged for King’s Return, was nominated for a 2023 Grammy for Best Arrangement. Be sure to check out Matt’s latest single “First Me”, available everywhere, and be sure to look for Matt’s much-anticipated third album coming Fall 2024!