02 Dec 2003

Two Shots Of Happy, One Shot Of Sad

Matt Dusk

Decca

WE SAY

Matt is a good looking 24 year old classically trained crooner from Toronto who released four albums independently, becoming a regular fixture on MP3.com's charts. His first Decca album is due in March, in time for Mother's Day. It's exec produced by Matt, his manager Steve Wolfe and Universal Publishing's legendary song plugger / A&R Willi Morrison and all the tracks are published or co-published by Universal. Mostly they're originals comissioned by Universal writers but there's a radical, slow reworking of Please Please Me plus this, the hitherto little-known song Bono wrote for Frank Sinatra. See Matt at London's Cafe de Paris on Thursday February 5.

CONTACTS

Vicki Campbell, Universal Classics & Jazz - 020 8910 3113

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