Nashville, Tennessee
28 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Instrumentalist, Producer

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""Sailing on a Sinking Ship""

BIOGRAPHY

bVm on MTV,ABC & E!

"The Hills" "Tila Tequila" "Meet The Kardashians"





● "Another Great Song From This Kid"
~Luke Lewis/CEO Universal Music Group Nashville~


● "Wreckless and Energetic"
~Landon Pigg/Recording Artist~


● "Modern Pop Rock Kicking Out Some Great Melodies!"
~Derek Sivers/CD Baby CEO/Founder~


● "A Dash of Rock 2cups of Pop makes bVm something worth baking on your iPod!"
~Hurley Co. Music~



MySpace.com/BrianVanMeter
O f f i c i a l W e b s i t e





Born in Gainesville Florida on September 15, 1981.

Full name Brian Charles Van Meter. Singer/Songwriter of all his songs.

Started writing songs when he was 16.

Moved to Nashville When he turned 22. And Still At It...!



"Sometimes it's so hard to find what it is I'm trying to say. People might think you can turn creativity on and off, but it's not like that. It just kinda comes out; a mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's going to happen. But when it does its like magic...

IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE AND IT'S JUST THAT HARD."

~Gwen Stefani~

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Pop, Rock , Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Brian Van Meter Music Group, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com
Publishing: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com
Label: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com
Music Supervisor: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com
Booking: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com
Administrative: vanmetermusic@yahoo.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

b3 organ / bass / cello / drums / acoustic guitar / harmonica / keyboard / piano / synthesizers / violin / vocals

INFLUENCES

Jimi Hendrix Led Zepplin Steve Miller Band Dave Matthews Band Incubus John Mayer Jack Johnson Landon Pigg Third Eye Blind

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

MTV ABC E!

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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.