James Cody

Based out of Nashville, TN, James Cody is a music producer, performer, and educator who specializes in electro-acoustic production, live performance, songwriting, arranging, sound design and MIDI programming/ sequencing.

James holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from The University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Science in Audio Engineering from Belmont University. He studied classical guitar under Yaniv Attar and Jazz under Eric Essix.

In the Spring of 2014, during his junior year of undergrad, Dr. Henry Panion, III hired James to play lead and rhythm guitar on his arrangement/ production of Stevie Wonder’s Heaven Help Us All, which was commissioned by the City of Birmingham for the 50th commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and featured as part of the worldwide Dance the Dream tributes in London, Paris, Prague, New York, Beirut, Kabul, Jerusalem, Singapore, Mumbai, Dublin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Seattle, and Birmingham. In the Fall of 2014, James was awarded a fellowship with UAB Digital Media during his senior year.

After producing soundtracks for a variety of docu-film projects, James was awarded a Silver ADDY award from the American Advertising Association (music category) for his original song Rise, which was the featured soundtrack in a digital ad campaign for the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s TRIO: Academic Services (2015). Additionally, James was the co-recipient of a Silver ADDY for the “Sound Design” category pertaining to a PSA campaign on heroin prevention and awareness (KNOW DOPE) that was published in 2016.

Since moving to Nashville in 2017, James has established a solid reputation in the music industry. He is known around town as a versatile guitarist, producer, and track writer. Most recently, James was commissioned to compose the film score for Beware of Goat - winner of the 2023 Tonkawa Film Festival “Best Comedy” award.

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