For Adam Messinger and Nasri Atweh, success has come from having the right songs at the right time.<\/p>\n
Within a month of relocating to Los Angeles from Toronto in 2007, the songwriting-producing duo known as The Messengers had met singer-actor Donnie Wahlberg, then searching for songs for a New Kids on the Block record. Atweh, who once performed as a solo artist, wound up co-writing four songs while he and Messinger co-wrote another. It proved to be the group\u2019s comeback album.
\nA few months later, Atweh and Messinger provided songs for a Michael Bolton album. The Canadians\u2019 contributions were praised for adding a seductive, calm air to what critics called Bolton\u2019s most confident release in years.<\/p>\n
Their success is also about being in the right place at the right time \u2013 like when Atweh bumped into R&B star Chris Brown at a Los Angeles gym. Recalls Atweh: \u201cAfter playing basketball, I told him \u2018I\u2019m a songwriter and I think I could kill it for you.\u2019 He gave me an e-mail address and I sent him a song we\u2019d done. He goes \u2018I want this.\u2019 That really got the ball rolling for us.\u201d
Good fortune next struck when Atweh spotted Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun in a hotel lobby. \u201cNasri just went for it and introduced himself,\u201d recalls Messinger. \u201cThey were open to hearing material and not long after, Scooter got back to us saying that our compositions were Justin\u2019s favorites.\u201d Those songs, including \u201cPray,\u201d appeared on Bieber\u2019s My Worlds Acoustic. The Messengers also contributed to other Bieber recordings, which earned them a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award for his holiday hit \u201cMistletoe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Little did they know, but Atweh and Messinger\u2019s next project also wound up featuring Bieber, and became their biggest success: \u201cNext to You,\u201d a duet between Bieber and Brown. Featured on Brown\u2019s F.A.M.E. album, it won them their first Grammy Award.<\/p>\n
The Messengers are now one of pop\u2019s hottest properties. Admits Atweh, \u201cOur track record, in such a short time, has been insane.\u201d Messinger, a graduate of York University\u2019s jazz program, thinks their partnership has just the right balance: \u201cI\u2019m the guy who knows harmony and arrangements, but Nasri\u2019s more the free spirit who pulls ideas and inspiration out of the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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