Interview with Jennifer Decilveo

We had the pleasure of interviewing Jennifer Decilveo over Zoom video!

Since breaking through with Andra Day’s 2015 hit “Rise Up,” Decilveo has carved out a place as one of music’s most exciting and experimental new writer-producers, crafting critically-acclaimed tracks with Beth Ditto, Hinds, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and more.

Decilveo never planned on a career in music. She grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University with a degree in finance. She scored a job at Deloitte, where she spent most of her days looking at Excel spreadsheets.

Decilveo had recently seen a clip of hitmaker Kara DioGuardi on YouTube, singing a hit she’d written for Kelly Clarkson. “Oh, so this is a job, huh?” she remembers thinking. Decilveo quit her finance job to intern at a Manhattan studio. She spent a summer writing songs and teaching herself Logic. She moved to L.A., where her BMG publisher introduced her to Andra Day, a jazz-schooled powerhouse who was working on her first album. They wrote “Rise Up,” a four-chord gospel anthem about getting through dark times.

The song was nominated for two Grammys and remains a modern standard: Per President Obama’s request, she sang it at the Obama Foundation Summit concert in Chicago, and again on the steps of Washington D.C.’s Roosevelt Hotel during President Biden’s inaugural parade.

Decilveo has been gaining momentum ever since. She co-produced and co-wrote Melanie Martinez’ "Play Date,” which became a sleeper hit in 2020, going platinum and scoring over 500 million streams. She produced and co-wrote Madrid indie band Hinds’ third studio album The Prettiest Curse, and seven tracks on Ben Platt’s acclaimed debut Sing to Me Instead (which she also executive produced). She recently co-wrote two deeply confessional hits; Demi Lovato’s “I Love Me,” and Miley Cyrus’ “High” off 2021’s Plastic Hearts. In the process, Decilveo has created a lane for sonically wild and deeply personal stories on the radio.

Decilveo has a huge 2021 lined up. She produced three singles on Marina Diamandis’ new LP Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, and executive produced and co-wrote Christina Perri’s forthcoming studio album, due out in the near future. She is also working with the rising Memphis soul singer Valerie June, and wrote the upcoming lead single by Glassnote artist Taylor Janzen, which will be released ahead of Janzen’s anticipated Lollapalooza set.

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