The Elev3n

THE ELEV3N (James G. Morales, Matt Morales, & Dave Rodriguez)
Background information
Born New York City, United States
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • record producer
  • songwriter
Instruments keyboards, drums, guitar, bass, trumpet, saxophone
Years active 2011 – present
Labels Various
Associated acts


THE ELEV3N is an American producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist team currently based in New York City.[1] with members James G. Morales, Matt Morales, & Dave Rodriguez. Since forming in 2011, the trio has achieved success in production and songwriting for Pop, Hip-hop, and R&B acts such as Meghan Trainor, Karmin, Sean Kingston, Cher Lloyd, Jesse McCartney, Bea Miller and The Wanted.

Career

With all three members born and raised into the New York City music scene they each gained experience as multi instrumentalists Dave (guitar, bass, keyboards) Matt (trumpet, keyboards) James (drums keyboards, alto saxophone) at church and for various local bands. After graduating from Glen Cove High school where brothers James and Matt took up music playing for the school band they attended Berklee College of Music on scholarship to study Music Production & Engineering and Music Business. Dave attended Seton Hall and pursued a career as a live musician supporting various artists domestically and overseas and as a guitarist for Estelle.

While at Berklee James caught the attention of producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and went on to work at his studio compound in Atlantic City, NJ after graduating in 2006. A few years later Matt returned to New York after graduating from Berklee in 2009 to engineer sessions for various record labels and artists such as Melanie Fiona, Tinashe, Jack Antonoff from the band FUN. In 2011 the trio collectively decided to join forces to work on songwriting and music production as THE ELEV3N.

After reconnecting with former Berklee classmate and friend Nils Gums of The Complex Group[1] in 2012 the team entered into a management agreement with the Complex Group and landed a production deal with Antonio L.A. Reid CEO of Epic Records in addition to a publishing agreement with the worlds leading music publisher Sony/ATV.

THE ELEV3N have had several media and publication features by Billboard Magazine, MTV, CNN, CBS, and work actively between their studio in Manhattan NY, and Los Angeles, CA.

Partial discography

References

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