Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia Signs Matias Tellez to Global Deal

09 April 2025 - Press release

Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia today announced the signing of award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matias Téllez to a worldwide publishing agreement. 

Matias Téllez is a widely respected, award-winning songwriter and record producer based in Bergen, Norway. He has penned hit songs for top artists including girl in red, with contributions across her debut album if i could make it go quiet (2021) including the popular singles "Serotonin" and 'You Stupid B**ch," as well as her sophomore album I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! (2024).  Tellez's credits also include work across Gracie Abrams' debut album Good Riddance and Maisie Peters' latest album The Good Witch, which debuted at #1 on the UK Official Albums chart. He is a frequent collaborator with artists including Aurora, Towa Bird, CMAT and Astrid S, amongst others.   

Recently, Téllez won Songwriter of the Year at the 2025 Norwegian Music Publisher Awards and was recognized with multiple nominations at the 2025 Spellemannprisen awards (The Norwegian Grammys), including two nominations in the Producer of the Year category, as well as nominations for Songwriter of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and more. 

Matias Téllez said, "I'm very excited that I've found such an amazing group of music lovers and nerds in SMP.  Growing up I always felt I was born in the wrong era, but over the last few years there has been a shift in how music is discovered, shared and experienced.  The rigid lines that for the most, kept genres segregated in the mainstream, have gotten much blurrier.  The freedom of identity that we've seen in culture recently is also evident in how both the creators and listeners are not letting musical genres define who they are.  Together with SMP I embark on this next chapter under the shared ethos of: if one keeps making the stuff one loves, good things will happen.  It turns out I was born at the exact right time, I just had to stick around for a bit. Like the great Cole Porter wrote it, Anything Goes."

Lasse Ewald, VP A&R, Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia said, "I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to meet Matias, and honored that he has chosen Sony Music Publishing to represent his songs at such an important time in his career.  Over the last couple of years Matias has arguably been one of the most influential in shaping the sound of modern Scandinavian diy and alternative pop music and has found global audiences for the artists he's stood behind and worked with. It's with tremendous respect and focus that we now work alongside his formidable team at Special Projects, to support Matias on his continued musical journey." 

Téllez is managed by Sam Cantlon, Tommas Arnby and Mike Malak of Special Projects.