Beezleberry

To answer your second question, I'm an East Coast-based lyricist working with a diverse pack of brilliant songwriters, composers and producers around the world to create music that isn't just catchy, it's also undeniably smart, funny, heartbreaking or sexy. And sometimes all of the above all at once.

Listen for yourself. I co-wrote all of the songs featured on this site. :)

You can also hear samples of my lyrics at:

http://myspace.com/almostcharliemusic: Almost Charlie is the Berlin-based alternapop outfit led by my friend, singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Dirk Homuth. Since I co-write all of the group's songs (but can't play any instrument more complicated than a toaster), he named the band after me. Nice, huh? Our second album, "The Plural of Yes," has just been released by the prestigious Words on Music label in the US and Europe to, if I do say so myself, pretty damn good reviews.

http://myspace.com/adamtylermusic: Liberated at last from his boy band, Adam Tyler -- aka the male Lady Gaga -- is ready to recharge electropop the world over, one dance floor at a time. You can try to sit still while you listen. But in the end, you will fail. Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://myspace.com/jonathanfagerlundofficial: After choosing my co-write, "Dance in the Shadows," as a single from his debut album, the Swedish Superboy included four of my co-writes on his sophomore release, "Welcome to My Life."

http://myspace.com/thedeaddontdatethemusical: This is the mix-tape musical I hope to have taken to the stage and screen by the time you read this. Wait, you're reading this now. Damn, I'm already running late. Anyway, don't say you weren't warned. Here's a collection of bloopers from the making of the demos with Broadway babes Amy Spanger ("Rock of Ages"), Brooke Sunny Moriber ("The Wild Party") and Sara Chase ("Toxic Avenger: The Musical").

And if you want the official bio, this is it:

Charlie Mason may well be the idiot savant of the music industry. He can’t sing (and, lucky for you, knows it), doesn’t play an instrument, and he isn’t even the bastard grandson of a Rolling Stone or the trouble-magnet ex-boyfriend of a Hollywood starlet. But give him a topline and tell him to write you lyrics that reverberate with passion and wit, and, sometimes in as little as a couple of hours, he’ll blow your mind. Whatever the genre, whatever the style, he aims to please, and his aim is very, very good.

In the last couple of years, the New Orleans native has scored co-writes with, among others, Ashley Tisdale, Twin (who sent No Angels to heaven), PJ Bianco (who hit No. 1 with the Jonas Bros.), Johan Aberg (of Christina Aguilera fame), German heartthrobs Tommy Reeve and Fady Malouf, and Grammy winner Mattias Andreasson (of the Swedish supergroup EMD), and has heard his material recorded by artists as varied as Germany's Monrose and Queensberry, Asian-American crossover acts BoA and Sweetbox, and Sweden's Jonathan Fagerlund and Danny (Saucedo's his last name, but c'mon, after "Swedish Idol," he only needs the first).

Currently, he is also working with and developing material for up-and-coming artists such as The Provider (Sweden’s new ace of bass), Carina Lirola (the UK's hottest export since tea) and Adam Tyler (the former MaddHouse inmate whose talent is matched only by his, er, commitment).

In his spare time, the lyricist, now part of New York City’s exotic bridge-and-tunnel crowd, has freelanced as an entertainment writer for national magazines including Seventeen, Time Out New York, TV Guide and In Touch; appeared as a talking head on VH1 and SoapNet programs; and written three screenplays and what is poised to become Broadway’s scariest musical ever. (Yes, even more so than "Mamma Mia.") His goal in life is to have the option of spending all day, every day, locked in a room with a view of his platinum records writing one lyric after another, occasionally taking breaks to play with the pets he looks forward to rescuing from animal shelters.

Oh, and if you like my logo, you'll probably like this one, too:

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