Sean Devine of ASCAP Music invited Dan MacKenzie over to the WorldSpace Sessions for a look at Abbey Road. After Dan and Ted were introduced, Ted mentioned to Dan that UPop had been playing his holiday song with Joss Stone and his election anthem WWJD. Dan was then invited to perform live on air around the world. During his performance, Dan shared that he just returned from a weeks worht of recording four songs with Joss Stone and gave the listeners around the world, as well as the select studio audience a memorable afternoon performance. Thanks to Sean Devine and the ASCAP UK team for sharing the great talent of Dan MacKenzie with a few million of our listeners on WorldSpace, XM, AOL and DirecTV.
DAN MACKENZIE is an EMMY nominated songwriter who has also won the prestigious ASCAP Sammy Cahn Lyricist Award (other winners include John Mayer, Josh Ritter and Lori McKenna.) He wrote and produced “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS,” just recorded by JOSS STONE (Virgin Records) at Thanksgiving time, and released on iTunes and www.myspace.com/jossstone this 07 Holiday Season. He has recently been writing several songs for the upcoming Holly/Bollywood musical film, "Basmati Blues," (other tunes penned by Moby, Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach) and has had numerous song placements in film and TV. Dan has just completed his own new release, The Universe Is A Great Big Place, (produced by Dan Mackenzie, Chris Keup and Stewart Myers, mixed by Robbie "Achtung Baby" Adams.) Not yet released, two of the songs from this new project have already been placed in upcoming films.