Matthew Gray:  

CLASS OF 1987
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Watsonville, CA
Aptos High SchoolClass of 1987
Aptos, CA
Watsonville, CA
Holy Cross SchoolClass of 1983
Santa cruz, CA
Santa cruz, CA

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Life I am married to a great woman named Melanie. We live in Bloomington-Normal, IL. We have two daughters Grace Marie Gray, born in 2005 and Annie Jean Gray born in 2012. 7 years apart! Melanie and I met on the internet- she was looking for a friend of hers and kept finding my profile on a popular search engine. She somehow got the courage to email me, and we kept in touch for a year without meeting. We met in person in January of 2001, and things went just great after that. We got engaged in October of 2001 at Shadowbrook in Capitola, CA. We were married in Los Angeles on August 10, 2002 at the Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon Church, then had our reception at the Brandview Collection in Glendale, CA. I am working now as an Uber & Lyft Driver, however, I have recently switched from being a BMI Writer Member to becoming an ASCAP Writer/Publisher (AzwesoSongs.com) . As many of you might remember that in High School, I wrote poetry. and while still at WHS I started collaborating on songs with Prior Engagem...Expand for more
ent (Jon Fesmire, Chris Harrington, Tony Fesmire & Phil Harrington). This led to writing lyrics for "Stop Running Away!" a musical starring Chris Harrington and the rest of the cast. This also led to my path to becoming a better Lyricist. I attended Cabrillo College and Trebas Institute of Recording Arts (Music Business Administration). In 2018 I won a 3-day badge to go to the ASCAP EXPO in Hollywood, CA where I met childhood hero and Oscar Winner Paul Williams, Chairman & President of ASCAP. I currently am working with other writers - "The Best Is Not Behind Me" with WANZ (who was featured in the Grammy Winning song "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore is one co-write that is a highlight for me because we met through Grammy U, - Update: I am in school at Full Sail University where I completed a Business Certificate and working on getting my Bachelor of Science Degree in Digital Cinematography.. I hope to get involved mainly within Film and Music. HIghly recommend adding me on FB as I am rarely on Classmates.
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It's like you're right with me Melanie Kahwaji Gray
The irony, I literally made a snap judgement to repurchase this CD because it's so good. I can't believe Tom Petty passed. His biopic is fantastic - I never knew his story, how it all happened for him and it was definitely
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Just a peek for you into my lyric writing process. I actually wrote the whole thing in my app, then I refine it in my lyrics journal. This is how I still work, folks!  It's just what I love to do and when moments like this,
Happy Birthday to Mom/Sitto - Jeanette Kahwaji. A fabulous Mother-in-law who I asked for Melanie's hand in marriage from because Melanie's Dad was not there, but we called him and he said they would be happy to see Melanie
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