Zayde Wølf is “Still Fighting For It”.
“I feel like writing songs is hard every time. I fight for each one of them.At this stage in my life, I’ve seen some AMAZING things happen. But my fire and fight to do better and be better still remain. The irony about this song, I was fighting to finish it for 9 months and it had 15 different versions.” – Zayde Wølf. He’s a songwriter, producer, and one-of-a-kind artist in his own right. Having licensed hundreds of songs, his music is everywhere. Ranging from film trailers, television shows and video games, to major domestic and international advertisements on the internet with Fox, NBC, ABC, ESPN, MTV, CBS and TLC networks, it’s hard not to run into his powerful lyrics and energetic sonic production.
Zayde Wolf is the solo project of Dustin Burnett, a Nashville-based producer and musician. His debut album “Golden Age” (2016) introduced him as a formidable new voice in indie pop and afforded him the opportunity to let his own voice shine after years of helping others do the same. The tracks “New Blood” and “Hustler” landed in film trailers such as ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’, ‘Gold’, and major television shows like Shameless and the Real World. All of Burnett’s accolades may seem to be the makings of an obvious solo success, but the Zayde Wolf project came somewhat accidentally.
“Towards the end of 2015 I was producing some new music as a concept. I had these new ideas, but when a couple of singers fell through, I just decided to sing on it myself,” Burnett says. “I finished the songs, and rather than use my name, I listed, ‘Zayde Wolf’ as the artist and sent it to a licensing company in Los Angeles called Lyric House. Pretty much immediately, one of the songs was licensed. Jessica Cole, Lyric House’s President responded, ‘So who’s Zayde Wolf anyway? We need more songs’. That’s literally the accidental story of how I became Zayde Wolf”. That one song released three years ago has led to two full-length albums, an EP, dozens of singles and a dedicated following that includes over 650,000 Spotify monthly listeners, 50 Million streams, 37 million YouTube views and 144,000 subscribers.
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