Cahn & Yang
The singer/songwriter duo Cahn & Yang consists of vocalist Greg Cahn and multi-instrumentalist Alex Yang. The duo is currently based in Southern California.
Biography
Early life
Greg and Alex began their MusicAL journey by forming a rock band called The Driving Force in 2002 . Within two years of writing, recording, and performing in Bloomington, Indiana they were discovered and signed by independent label, Winedark Records. Through Winedark, Grammy award winning producer Gary Katz, best known for producing Steely Dan, invited Greg and Alex to his Connecticut studio for a weekend long recording session.
Immediately following the three-day trip and before their return flight even took off, Katz signed on with Winedark to record their debut full-length studio album. Katz put together a production team at New York’s legendary Electric Ladyland Studios, with mixing by Grammy award winning producer, Hugh Padgham (Sting, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins) and mastering by legend Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound.
Unfortunately, the Driving Force’s debut album and record deal with Winedark fell victim to label infighting. The label imploded and the band split up. Unwilling to give up on their dreams Greg and Alex decided to move forward by on their own. They left the Midwest and moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 2006.
Career
It didn’t take long for the new duo to attract attention, they dove into the music licensing and publishing side of the business. Cahn & Yang got nine songs, both originals and re-makes placed in Discovery Planet Green’s new environmental challenge series Battleground Earth: Ludacris vs. Tommy Lee. That led them to being commissioned by video producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (creators of “Designing Women” and “Evening Shade”) to record a version of The Kink’s “You Really Got Me” as the lead in song in the 2008 DNC Video tribute to Hillary Clinton, presented in Denver and shown on every major TV network in the world . Cahn & Yang’s original “2 Worlds Collide” was used as the end title song for Mass Animation’s: Live Music created by Yair Landau (Fmr. SONY Digital Exec, Surf’s Up) which will pair up with TriStar Pictures Planet 51 due out Nov. 20 going wide across North America.
The Bird Call Productions
Cahn & Yang eventually linked up with award winning producer Ruwanga Samath, Oscar “Ozzy” Doniz and the Bird Call Productions. Ru has produced songs for Britney Spears, Beyonce, Flo Rida, Kesha, Norah Jones and many more. There was an immediate chemistry and they would routinely lock themselves in the studio for days at a time. They saw immediate results, and the demand for the music started growing. Several of their songs were used in a variety of movies and TV shows including Battlegound Earth, The Education of Charlie Banks, The Playboy Channel’s King of Clubs, VH1’s Eddie Griffin: Going for Broke, Son of Mourning, Flying by and many more . In late 2009 Cahn & Yang released the Loyalty EP through the Bird Call Productions .
The Loyalty Tour
In early 2010, Cahn & Yang along with Ozzy, embarked on a nationwide tour and played sold out shows in New York, Chicago, Cleveland and ending at the legendary Hotel Café in Los Angeles . They Duo is currently back in the studio working on their second EP and preparing for a worldwide tour following the EP’s expected release in mid 2010.