Michael Behm Music

MICHAEL BEHM

Michael Behm covers more bases than the New York Yankees. He is a genuine music industry renaissance man, having achieved success in many diverse areas of the business. The B.C.-based Behm has run successful live venues and nightclubs in Canada and the Caribbean, founded one of Canada’s major sound and lighting companies, Premier Productions, promoted concerts by such major acts as Nickelback and Nazareth, and hosted international recording artists in studios he has owned.

As well as releasing a series of critically-acclaimed albums under his own name, Behm has become a highly prolific writer and producer of music. These compositions range from instrumental tracks destined for use in film and television to songs that are being used by artists in genres as varied as country, hard rock, r 'n b, and dance. His compositions can be heard daily on outlets ranging from The Speed and Food Networks to Discovery and MTV (UK). They have been licensed in large numbers to MTV and Comcast (a major producer of U.S. TV shows), and his songs have been placed on Let’s Make A Deal, American Idol and an Australian TV documentary on the life of AC/DC singer Bon Scott.

Behm tracks have received almost 300 placements in TV shows in recent years. He is now working as the exclusive creator of music for a new 13 episode TV series on immortality that is the brainchild of Tim Marlowe and Hollywood heavyweight Nick Reed (Underworld).

Nominated in 2011 as BCCMA / Socan songwriter of the year, he is being recognized for his ability to create songs that connect.

Behm is singer/songwriter with expertise in multiple genres, he has earned an international following, with his songs receiving a phenomenal online exposure. Plays on Youtube are over 4.7 million. Over 1000 individual youutube users have synced songs written and produced by Michael Behm, to their videos! Plays on numberonemusic now tally 2.5 million, with Jango registering 45,750 plays and 9,550 new Jango fans in the last year.

He has co-written many songs with such legendary Nashville writers as Pamela Oland, (Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin), Ron Irving, (Anne Murray, Jennifer Rush) and Ralph Murphy. Behm's current collaborators include Larry Wayne Clarke (they've written a song for American Idol star Scotty McCreery) and young Vancouver writer Kate Morgan. One of Michael's most fruitful creative partnerships has been with British guitar hero Steve Morris. A member of The Ian Gillan Band, Morris has written extensively with former Deep Purple singer Gillan. Over the past three years, the Morris and Behm team have created over 160 tracks for other artists and for film and television soundtracks.

Behm is increasingly in demand as a producer, a role in which his experience in other facets of the music industry is proving invaluable. As a solo artist and a songwriter, he knows the creative process inside out, and artists in many different musical genres are now benefiting from both that expertise and his unwavering commitment to excellence. Michael describes his approach to making music as "like making a cake with all real ingredients. I look for the highest quality content for each song I work on."

Through his extensive recording background, Behm has developed a strong sense of what makes a song great. "One thing I've learned producing is that without a compelling vocal a song will never be much of anything. If a song has emotional meaning that people can connect with, that's always the foundation. I like the songs I work on to be epic, to have those emotional high and low moments. In my productions, I use a lot of different instruments, from full orchestra with violins and cellos through to ebo and ukulele. I use whatever will serve the song."

In the past year, Behm has been working extensively with some of Canada's most talented and promising female vocalists. That list includes dance artists Miss Mercury (on the soon to be hit track "Yo Yo"), actor and Leo award winner Alexia Fast, Jona Kristinsson (of Wunderbread) and Celeste Levis, soulful vocal powerhouse Shelley Beeston (from Baby Jane), award-winning country songstress Angela Harris, Kate Morgan, Chandelle, and Texas based singer co-writer Alisong Smith.

Behm is truly international in his vision. He regularly works in studios in Nashville, Los Angeles and Vancouver at Blackbird, Oceanway studios, and (Bryan Adams' The Warehouse Studios, and The Armoury (the facility started by Bruce Fairbairn), as well as his own well-equipped Vancouver Island based studio. His right-hand man on many of his production projects is noted Vancouver engineer Delwyn Brooks. Michael and Delwyn have worked with British, American and European acts.

In turn, you can expect that many more artists will be making use of the multi-faceted talents of Michael Behm and his team in the future.

For more information, contact michaelbehm25@hotmail.com