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Feli Ferraro
Feli Ferraro is an American singer, producer and topline songwriter, best known for contributing various songs to artists in the K-pop industry, as well as co-written songs "Players" (Coi Leray), "Undecided" (Chris Brown), "Waves" (Normani & 6lack), "Wild Ones" (Jessie Murph & Jelly Roll), "Unforgiven" (Le Sserafim & Nile Rodgers), and "Time" from DJ Black Coffee's Grammy-winning 2021 album Subconsciously.[1][2][3][4][5] Ranked #16 on Genius crowd-sourced "Top Songwriters of 2022" list, the Los Angeles-based musician was also longlisted for the Grammy Award for Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical in 2024. [6][7] Ferraro is signed to Kara DioGuardi's publishing company Arthouse Entertainment.[3][8] BeginningsInitially writing alongside former X Factor USA contestants Diamond White and Normani, Ferraro was invited to a session by Chris Brown mixing engineer Patrizio 'Teezio' Pigliapoco, alongside Brown, Scott Storch, and writer Antonio Stith in August 2018, which quickly evolved into "Undecided" after Brown began humming the melody.[9] UMPG and Coi LerayAfter writing for several Japanese boy bands, Ferraro was next invited to a recurring Universal Music Publishing Group international writing camp that works to create songs based on specific, commissioned briefs from UMPG Korea, detailing genre, theme, and tempo.[1] The completed songs are then pitched to various labels and artists in the K-pop, C-pop, and J-pop markets.[1] Between this camp (nicknamed "The Hit Factory') and other writing opportunities, Ferraro has received co-write placements for BTS, Le Sserafim, Lay Zhang, Minho, TVXQ, Tomorrow X Together, and XG, among others.[1] In 2022, Ferraro collaborated with producer Johnny Goldstein and fellow writer Akil King to work on Coi Leray's major-label debut album Coi, co-writing or producing fourteen out of seventeen associated tracks, including top 10 hit "Players" and European hit "Baby Don't Hurt Me", both of which received Grammy nominations.[2] Personal lifeFerraro recently married fellow musician and songwriter BENJMN, who she met at a past writing camp.[1] Selected songwriting credits
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