AJ Smith: The Intersection of Head & Heart

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AJ Smith turned down scholarships to some of the top engineering
programs in the country in order to pursue the study of music at
NYU. With scholarships from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and
Carole Bayer Sager Foundation, he was able to pursue a degree in
songwriting and it was there where he found life-changing mentors
in the late Glenn Frey and hit songwriter Phil Galdston,
self-released his first EP “Dragons in the Sky”, had a #3 hit in
Australia with “Summertime”, opened for The Eagles at the Beacon
Theatre, performed in the off-Broadway and West End hit Close to
You: Burt Bacharach Reimagined, learned some more instruments (he
plays 10 now), and graduated with one of America’s first Masters
Degrees in Songwriting. His songwriting and performance abilities
have earned multiple awards, including the prestigious Abe Olman
Scholarship from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and he was a
semi-finalist ranking in the 2020 International Songwriting
Contest. Oh and did I mention he served as a Young Associate
Violinist to the National Symphony Orchestra while simultaneously
serving as an Engineer and Infrared Systems Developer for the
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...in high school?


Don't miss this conversation with the multi-talented AJ
Smith!

Find out more about AJ and listen to his music here:

www.ajsmithmusic.com
www.ajsmithmusic.com/better
www.YouTube.com/ajsmithmusic





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