MATT IS FROM MANISTIQUE MICHIGAN, A SMALL HAMLET IN THE UPPER PENNINSULA. MATT HAS LIVED IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA FOR THE PAST 19 YEARS.
IN 1994, MATT GOT HIS FIRST BREAK. A LOCAL ARTIST NAMED RANDY ANDERSON PUT MATTS SONG TWO TIME, ONE TIME ON HIS CD RELEASE, ONE MORE LIFETIME. THEN IN 1995, SHADOWS ON THE WALL WAS RECORDED BY FAMOUS COUNTRY ARTIST JERRY HANLON, AND THE CD LIVING ON DREAMS WAS RELEASED TO INDEPENDENT RADIO STATIONS AROUND THE WORLD, WITH SHADOWS ON THE WALL BEING MATTS FIRST CHARTED SONG.
NOT LONG AFTER THAT, MORE CD RELEASES FOLLOWED. JERRY HANLON PUT TWO MORE OF MATTS SONGS ON A CD RELEASE, AND MATT GOT HIS FIRST TITLE CUT WITH COUNTRY NIGHTS, WHICH WAS RELEASED TO RADIO STATIONS WORLDWIDE.
RANDY ANDERSON CUT THREE OF MATTS SONGS ON HIS LOVING YOU UP CD, INCLUDING A SONG CO WRITTEN BY MATT AND RANDY, CALLED ANOTHER MANS CASTLE.
MATTS SONGS WERE RELEASED ON TWO COMSTOCK RECORDS RELEASES TO RADIO WORLDWIDE, AND DID VERY WELL, WITH HIS SONG ANOTHER YOU GOING AS HIGH AS NUMBER 3 ON INDIE CHARTS.
ANOTHER ARTIST, CRAIG CAFFALL, RELEASED A SONG CO WRITTEN BY MATT AND HIMSELF ON HIS CD ROLL ON BIG SISTER BY HIS BAND BIG TRAIN. THE SONG WAS CALLED CALLED GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF THE REST.
RANDY ANDERSON RECENTLY CUT A SONG CO WRITTEN BY MATT AND HIMSELF, CALLED LUCKY GUY. THE CD, HELLO EVERYBODY, WERE BACK! IS OFFERED AT RANDYS LIVE SHOWS, AND ON THE INTERNET.
ARTIST CHERYL K. WARNER CUT MATT'S SONG "DREAMS", WHICH SPENT 42 WEEKS ON THE ROOTS COUNTRY/POP CHARTS. "DREAMS" SPENT 6 WEEKS AT THE TOP OF THAT CHART.
ARTIST RODNEY COOK RELEASED MATT'S SONG "HELL BENT AND SOUTHERN BOUND", AND ARTIST SCOTT DAVIS RECENTLY CUT MATT'S SONG "JUST ONE DANCE".
MATT CONTINUES TO PITCH HIS SONGS TO WHOMEVER WILL LISTEN.
CURRENTLY, HE HAS OVER 200 SONGS IN HIS CATALOG, WITH OVER 50 SONGS PUBLISHED TO DATE.
30 YEARS AFTER MAKING UP HIS MIND TO BECOME A FAMOUS SONGWRITER, MATT IS STILL LIVING THAT DREAM. MATTS MOTTO IS NEVER SAY NEVER.
