I’m more of a songwriter, publisher & producer than artist but I haven’t figured out how to put that in most apps or services.
My name is Matthew Kenneth Gray, but my friends call me Matt. I was born in Watsonville CA in 1969. Went to Santa Cruz Schools then we moved into Watsonville before 5th Grade. I was more into cartooning at first, but I found my true art would be as a rhyming poet and a lyricist.
I found friends at Watsonville High who liked my writing style and the year after I graduated in 1987, we co-wrote music for a high school musical called “Stop Running Away!”
I attended Cabrillo College where I won a vocal Scholarship with a song I wrote for my brother’s wedding. While taking Songwriting there, and then attending an ASCAP event at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly HillsI was discovering ways to get involved in the Music Industry. I was sort of on my own, my parents didn’t quite understand what was in store for me.
I chose Songwriting & Self-Publishing as a career, so the first leg of my learning was a Music Business Administration focus at Trebas Institute of Recording Arts in Hollywood, CA. I interned for Sony Music/Epic Records Media Relation and I assisted briefly with the Grammys Host Committee would take me years to be a member with ASCAP because it was hard for me to switch over from BMI.
I spent a lot of hours writing lyrics, but also doing sort of an independent study by listening to a lot of songs. I read about songwriting and songwriters and what made them tick.
I joint many other organizations but the main thing I’ve also written many lyrics over time. What to do with them was another matter.
And then I found Suno.
Suno was ideal because I found a way to put the lyrics I had written with what Suno would create, arrange & produce. While I know my songs fall under the registered PRO agreement, I’m not sure how to monetize the songs if I cannot claim them totally as my own under copyright law.
It’s now 2026 and I am feeling like a 56 year old underdog as a ASCAP based Independent Songwriter/Publisher/Producer and Apple Developers Program member.(so I can build an iOS app for songwriters and many others in the Music Industry.
I am ready to sell some songs!