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Andrew David Horowitz (born October 12, 1983) is an American musician, songwriter, producer and recording artist. He is best known as the green-tied keyboardist and co-writer for the indie rock band Tally Hall.[1] Horowitz has worked with several artists including John Legend, Lindsey Stirling, Jidenna, Allie X, Verite, Scott Klopfenstein, and Janelle Monae.

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Andrew Horowitz
Horowitz performing with Tally Hall in 2007
Background information
Also known as	Green Tie, edu, The Locksmith
Born	(1983-10-12) October 12, 1983 (age 38)
Origin	Warren Township, New Jersey
Genres	Indie rock pop classical hip hop
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter record producer recording artist
Instrument(s)	Piano keyboards glockenspiel melodica percussion vocals
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Atlantic Quack!Media

Early life

Horowitz is a native of Warren, New Jersey. He began piano studies at the age of five and was composing by the age of eight. He graduated from the Pingry School in 2001.[2] While in high school, he pursued composition and piano studies with faculty at the Juilliard School. He was the principle pianist in the New York Youth Symphony, led an active jazz quartet, and directed several shows. Over the summers, he attended the Interlochen Arts Festival and Aspen Music Festival.[3]

He attended the University of Michigan in 2001 and received bachelor's degrees in Music Composition and English Literature. He studied composition privately with Susan Botti, Michael Daugherty, Curtis Curtis-Smith, William Bolcom, Evan Chambers and Karen Tanaka. He also attended La Schola Cantorum's counterpoint workshop in Paris.^{[citation needed]}

As a writer, Horowitz won two Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry.[4] Andrew was also a senior arts writer for The Michigan Daily.[5]

In 2004, Horowitz was the recipient of BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarship Award for writing Tally Hall's "Good Day".[6]

Career

In 2002, Horowitz joined the Michigan-based band named Tally Hall with Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley, Zubin Sedghi, and Steve Gallagher (who was later replaced by Ross Federman). Horowitz performed as keyboardist, writer and vocalist in the band. He wrote songs including "Good Day", "The Whole World and You", "Misery Fell", and more. He would play with Tally Hall until 2011, after their Good & Evil tour, where the band would then begin an indefinite hiatus.

Since 2011

Horowitz began apprenticing under producer Dave Tozer in 2011. He spent two years working on John Legend's gold-certified Love in the Future, which includes the 12× platinum "All of Me".[7] He also worked on productions for artists including needtobreathe, Celine Dion, Kai, Rebecca Ferguson, Ella Eyre and Dev.

In 2012, Horowitz released an album on a tape cassette under the pseudonym of edu. He titled the album “Sketches”. The cassette tapes sold out, which would later lead him to post the album to the internet.[8]

On July 1, 2014, he appeared with Rob Cantor in a video titled "29 Celebrity Impressions, 1 Original Song", performing their song "Perfect". A week later, Cantor released a making-of video, demonstrating that his impressions were a hoax done through audio and video editing, and in fact featured 11 different impressionists.[9] As of May 2021^[update], the original video has 18.8 million views, and the corresponding explanation video has 2.6 million views.

In July 2019, he would release a more refined and updated version of sketches to streaming services. He titled this album “Sketches 3D", again under the edu name.

As a writer and producer, Horowitz has become a presence in the NY music scene. He's worked with LP, Kara Dioguardi, Amanda Brown, Gala, Morgxn, Phebe Starr, Carrie Manolakos, Janelle Kroll, Kat Cunning, Crystal Monee Hall, and Sash, among others.[10]

Horowitz was starred as a guest on DaChimkenPeoples podcast[11] interview; the files were corrupted and lost.

He currently works out of his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[10]

Discography

With Tally Hall

• Complete Demos (2004)
• Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (2005)
• Good & Evil (2011)
• Admittedly Incomplete Demos (2015)

As edu

• sketches (2012)
• sketches 3d (2019)

Self-titled

• etudes (2018)
• etudes ii (2019)

Selected credits

Year	Artist	Song Title	Album	Contribution
2019	Moti	"Shoot to Kill"	Single	Co-producer/Co-writer
2019	edu	Full Album	Sketches 3d	Producer/Writer/Vocals/Musician
2019	Jidenna	"Sou Sou"	85 to Africa	Piano/Strings
2019	Stefan Alexander	Thunderclap EP	EP	Producer/Writer
2019	Baby Fuzz	Mr. Blu	Plastic Paradise	Co-writer/Add production
2018	Coyle Girelli	Full EP	Christmas and Me	Producer/Writer/Strings/Keys/Arranger
2018	Coyle Girelli	Full Album	Love Kills	Producer/Writer/Strings/Keys/Arranger
2018	Livia Blanc	Full EP	Amour Amour	Producer/Writer/Strings/Keys/Arranger
2018	Janelle Monae	"I Got The Juice feat. Pharrell Williams"	Dirty Computer	Synthesizers
2017	Matt Hartke	"Sign Me Up"	Single	Co-Producer/Writer
2017	Higher Brothers	"We Chat"	Black Cab	Co-Producer/Writer
2017	Jackal feat Josh Congress	"Summer in Your Arms"	Single	Co-Writer/Vocal Producer/Musician
2017	Celine Cairo	"See You Now"	Free Fall	Co-Writer
2017	Crystal Monee Hall	"If You Breathe"	EP	Producer/Writer/Musician
2017	Jidenna	Full Album	The Chief	Writer/Producer/Strings/Musician
2017	Merci Raines	"Moon City"	Raine EP	Co-writer
2017	MAY	"Ballerino"	Single	Producer/Writer/Musician
2016	Craig David	"All We Needed"	Following My Intuition	Piano
2016	Allie X	"Too Much To Dream"	CollXtion II	Add Production/Mixing/Musician
2016	Stefan Alexander	"Skeleton"	Single	Songwriter/Producer/Musician
2016	Charlene Kaye	Full EP	Honey EP	Keyboards/Add Production
2016	Jidenna	"Chief Don't Run"	Upcoming Album	Songwriter/Add Production/Strings/Keyboards
2016	D/C	"Beautiful & Fragile"	Badman EP	Keyboards/Strings
2016	Joe Hawley	"Bring Her Along"	Joe Hawley Joe Hawley	Keyboard/Piano
2015	Jidenna	"Extraordinaire"	Single	Songwriter/Add Production/Keyboards
2015	Needtobreathe	"Brother"	Single	Keyboards/Programming
2015	VÉRITÉ	"Rearrange"	Sentiment EP	Producer/Synths
2015	VÉRITÉ	"Sentiment"	Sentiment EP	Add Production/Synths
2015	VÉRITÉ	"Wasteland"	Sentiment EP	Add Production/Synths
2014	VÉRITÉ	"Strange Enough"	Echo EP	Add Production/Synths
2014	Rob Cantor	"Rendezvous"	Not A Trampoline	Songwriter/Producer/Musician
2014	Rob Cantor	"Perfect"	Not A Trampoline	Songwriter/Producer/Musician
2014	Nick Celino	"Drowned"	Single	Producer/Musician
2014	Matt McAndrew	"Wasted Love"	The Voice: The Complete Season 7 Collection	Add Production/Keyboards
2014	Ella Eyre	"Home"	Ella Eyre	String Arrangement/Programming
2013	John Legend	Full Album	Love in the Future	Songwriter/Strings/Musician/Producer
2011	Tally Hall	Full Album	Good & Evil	Songwriter/Producer/Musician/Vocals
2005	Tally Hall	Full Album	Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum	Songwriter/Producer/Musician/Vocals
2004	Tally Hall	Full Album	Complete Demos	Songwriter/Producer/Musician/Vocals

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