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YONATAN WATTS
from April 2023
Date Signed: January 2023
Publisher: Position Music / Champagne Therapy Music Group (CTMG)
Type of Music: R&B / Pop
Publicity: Deborah Radel @ DR Publication Relations / deborah@drpr.us Web: positionmusic.com
A&R: Delmar Powell - Position Music
Songwriter-producer Yonatan Watts has entered a new chapter, signing a global publishing deal in partnership with Position Music and Champagne Therapy Music Group (CTMG). With cuts for Arianna Grade, Black Eyed Peas, Machine Gun Kelly, The Weeknd, and many others, Watts was first inspired by his friends’ Japanese manga and anime cartoons. Singing along to the theme songs, he says “the unorthodox music for cartoons would inspire me to find my voice.”
A member of a vocal trio as a teen, and finishing Top 100 in Canadian Idol (with elimination just before the Top 30 duet rounds), Watts moved State-side for more experience after meeting a New York colleague of his production partner in Toronto. Taking up an offer to couch surf, he built his name in New York as an R&B/Pop engineer (working out of Platinum Sound Studios). Eight years later—and Itching to get back into music production—he relocated to Los Angeles.
