Trevor Rosen
| Trevor Rosen | |
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| Born | Woodhaven, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter |
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| Years active | 2003–present |
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Trevor Rosen is an American country music songwriter. He is also a member of the American country music band Old Dominion, in which he plays guitar and keyboards.[1]
Early life
Trevor Rosen grew up in Woodhaven, Michigan,[2] a southern suburb of Detroit. He learned piano at a young age before picking up the guitar at age 16 and forming the Detroit area rock trio Unfair Superpowers.
Career
Rosen moved to Nashville in the fall of 2003 to pursue a career in songwriting. He met Matthew Ramsey soon after arriving and the two began collaborating, eventually becoming founding members of the hit supergroup, Old Dominion. Rosen signedwith SMACKtown Music and Wrensong/Reynsong Publishing in 2013.[3] The Nashville Association of Independent Publishers named Rosen and the other members of Old Dominion the 2016 Songwriter/Artist of the Year, the same year they were honored as the Music Row Best New Artist and the Academy of Country Music’s Best New Duo/Group of the Year. He co-wrote hit songs: Break Up With Him, Snapback and Song For Another Time from their debut album Meat and Candy.
His songwriting accolades expand well beyond Old Dominion’s success, as he has written multiple #1 songs including Dierks Bentley’s"Say You Do",[4] The Band Perry's Better Dig Two,[5] Blake Shelton’s Sangria [6] and the longest charting #1 song in Country Aircheck history, William Michael Morgan’s I Met A Girl. He has also written songs recorded by Jake Owen, Scotty McCreery, Keith Urban, Craig Morgan, Dustin Lynch, Randy Houser, and Randy Rogers Band as well as songs performed on the ABC show Nashville.
Rosen co-wrote multiple songs for Old Dominion's second studio album, Happy Endings, including the Number One hits, "No Such Thing as a Broken Heart" and "Written in the Sand."[7]
Songs written by Rosen
References
- ↑ "About Old Dominion". Old Dominion. 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Old Dominion Talk Swagger, Their New EP and Writers' Regret". Tasteofcountry.com. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
- ↑ "Rosen Re-Signs Publishing Deal". Music Row. November 4, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Dierks Bentley Celebrates No. 1 Success With Song's Writers". CMT. June 17, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "The Band Perry Dig Up Another No. 1 on Country Songs Chart". Billboard. January 24, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Blake Shelton's 'Sangria' Reaches Top of Charts". iHeart Radio. July 6, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Trevor Rosen". SMACKSongs. January 26, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.