Robert Conley

Robert Conley is an American songwriter, record producer, engineer, mixer, and music publisher. Throughout his career, he has worked across all genres of music and has collaborated, programmed, mixed, produced, and written with many artists, including Kiss, Destiny's Child, Carlos Santana, Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Darren Hayes, Jessica Mauboy, Okenyo, Tina Arena, The Delta Riggs, The Walking Who, Ilan Kidron, Grinspoon, Georgi Kay, Thelma Plum, Lisa Mitchell, Bluejuice, and more.

Early life Robert Conley was born on March 13, 1973, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. He grew up in Harrison, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of three boys. When he was in the tenth grade, his father bought him an Ensoniq VFX SD II, and he began to create his own sequences and songs. Conley graduated from William Henry Harrison High School in 1991 and briefly went to the University of Dayton before dropping out to make music. Conley moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 and started an 'industrial' band called 'Darius Pogue' (the inspiration behind the 'dp' and 'dp13' aliases). The band played shows in and around Chicago. He then moved to Phoenix in 1997, where he started an electronica band called 'Specificus' with Matt Kelly (aka K. Roxwell, aka MK Ultra), making music influenced by The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, and Squarepusher. Conley also started on some new tracks, which would become the central theme to Darren Hayes' album This Delicate Thing We've Made. He has also collaborated with Australian hip-hop artist Phrase, co-writing and co-producing the Triple J staple and APRA-nominated single, ‘Spaceship’. Robert also worked with Penelope Austin, co-writing and co-producing several tracks, including "Smoke into Flames (The Riley Moore EP). Along with co-writing with a number of Aussie artists, including Delta Goodrem, Marvin Priest, and Tim Omaji, he has taken on mixing duties for new artists, ‘The Walking Who

Other work Robert is the CEO of Specific Music, which is a boutique music publishing and production company based in Sydney. They specialize in finding new talent, developing 'up-and-coming' songwriters, producers, and artists, and introducing them into the music industry. Specific Music "Smoke into the flames ","The Dark Collide

Robert is also the co-founder, along with Leonie Conley, of Australia's biggest songwriting camp, held annually in Sydney – 50 Songs in 5 Days. Specific Music's – '50 Songs in 5 Days', in Sydney. The building incorporates office space, a television and photographic studio and a gorgeous intimate live performance space and lounge. The building was launched by International Grammy award nominated artist and performer, Aloe Blacc. Aloe performed his three hits, Wake Me Up, I Need a Dollar, and I'm The Man. On May 16 was the launch of the first in a series of monthly music nights, ‘A Brilliant Secret' and regularly travels around Australia mentoring students at various high schools as part of the Song makers Workshop.

Awards and nominations Robert regularly writes and produces music for television and has had his songs synced for HBO, SOHO, Channel 7, including the theme song to their hit drama, 'A Place To Call Home' and the national Channel 7 News spot, 'Worlds Apart' written with Ilan Kidron as Go! Comet. He has also had syncs with Channel 10 and a variety of other ads. Promo's that he has done the music for have won the Promax Awards twice. In 2013, Robert placed 2nd in the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition with his song, ‘Paper Thin’, co-written by Alex Hope and Roberto De Sa. First place went to ThePreatures for ‘Is This How You Fee l ’. He also wrote and produced the APRA Nominated, ARIA top ten Gold single for Axle Whitehead, "I Don't Do Surprises". He also collaborated with JJ Abrahams and got a song into the ‘Star Trek – Into Darkness’ movie.

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