Matt Mason (singer)

Matt Mason (born c. 1985) is an American country music singer from Fairland, Indiana. He was the winner of CMT's Next Superstar in 2011. Prior to that he had competed on TV show Nashville Star.

Mason has self-released several recordings, and is now signed to Warner Bros. Records.

Early life and career

He was born in the Indianapolis area and attended Triton Central High School in Shelby County, Indiana. He grew up listening to traditional country music. He says he started playing guitar at age eleven, and from that time onward wanted to sing professionally. He was 16 when he opened for the Charlie Daniels Band in western Massachusetts. Six months after graduating high school in 2004, he moved to Nashville to pursue his career, and found work as a session musician almost immediately. Within three weeks, he was performing in live shows.

Television competition shows

In 2006, at age 20, he appeared on Nashville Star, finishing in fourth place. Afterwards, his productivity was affected by a struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, from which he recovered. He subsequently performed live as often as four times a week in venues on Lower Broadway. In 2011 he won CMT's Next Superstar.

Matthew Mason

Matthew Mason or Matt Mason may refer to:

Matt Mason (author), author and creative executive

Matt Mason (poet), poet based in Omaha, Nebraska

Matt Mason (cricketer), cricketer who represented Western Australia and Worcestershire

Matthew Mason (Welsh cricketer), Welsh cricketer

Matthew T. Mason, American roboticist

Major Matt Mason, an action figure created by Mattel

Major Matt Mason USA, performing name of Matt Roth, New York City-based musician and record producer

Matthew Mason-Cox, Australian politician

Matt Mason (singer), singer based in Nashville, Tennessee

Matt Mason, a character on the U.S. television series Falling Skies

Matt Mason (poet)

Matt Mason is a poet based in Omaha,Nebraska born in 1968. He has published eight chapbooks and two full-length works of poetry as well as two anthologies. Mason has written about relationships, religion and the Bible, and themes of Midwest and Great Plains life. Mason's early work gave him a reputation as a humorous poet, but he has written comedy, drama, and tragedy.

Six of Mason's eight chapbooks have been published through his own small press, Morpo Press. His first full-length book, Things We Don't Know We Don't Know (2006), was published by the Backwaters Press and debuted at #12 on The Poetry Foundation's Contemporary bestsellers list. His second book The Baby That Ate Cincinnati was released in 2013 by the Stephen F. Austin University Press. The anthology Slamma Lamma Ding Dong (2005), which Mason co-edited, was made available through iuniverse and won the 2006 Nebraska Book Award for Best Anthology.

Mason is a poetry activist in the Omaha area. He operates the Poetry Menu, a website that lists poetry events in Nebraska. Mason has been a member of the team representing Omaha at the National Poetry Slam on multiple occasions from 2003, most recently in Oakland, CA, August 2015. Mason currently serves as Executive Director of Nebraska Writers Collective, festival coordinator for the Louder Than a Bomb: Omaha Youth Poetry Festival, past board president for the Nebraska Center for the Book, and consults for the Nebraska Arts Council for Nebraska’s Poetry Out Loud program (an NEA/Poetry Foundation program). He has served on the board of directors for the Nebraska Literary Heritage Association, the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards, Friends of the Omaha Public Library, and the Medusa Project. In October, 2015, Mason served as a representative for the U.S. State Department in Romania teaching Poetry slam to high schools students in various cities.

Matt Mason (author)

Matt Mason (born August 11, 1978) is an author and creative executive. He is the former Chief Content Officer for BitTorrent Inc., author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, and the founding editor-in-chief of RWD magazine.

Career

Early Career

Mason grew up in London, and began DJing as a teen on the pirate radio stations Ice FM and Mac FM. He attended the University of Bristol where he graduated with a degree in Economics. After graduating, he worked in the music and advertising industries at companies including Warner Music, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Mediacom.

RWD

In 2001, Mason became the founding editor-in-chief of RWD magazine. RWD was created to push new sounds emerging from the UK, most notably UK garage, grime and dubstep, and Mason became the first journalist to interview a number of prominent UK artists, including Dizzee Rascal, Skepta and Tinchy Stryder.

RWD became the largest music magazine by circulation in the UK, growing from 5,000 copies a month to almost 100,000 copies a month. Based on his work at RWD, Mason was selected as one of the faces of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign, and was presented The Prince’s Trust London Business of the Year Award by Prince Charles in 2004.