Andre Pessis
Multi Platinum Songwriter
Andre has 16 hit songs and been on 7 number one albums including the Bonnie Raitt “Luck Of The Draw” multi platinum CD that won 3 Grammys, and a song on the HBO Movie “Grey Gardens” that won 6 Emmies and 2 Golden Globes. He has 13 Platinum records and one Diamond album (ten platinum) and won 5 ASCAP awards.
Andre’s been recorded by: Huey Lewis and The News, MR Big, Tim McGraw, Waylon Jennings, Journey, The Dead, Ratdog, Southern Pacific, Glenn Medeiros, Ann Wilson of Heart, Gregg Rolie, Paul Carrack, Ben E King, The Stylistics, Laura Branigan, Bigbird, Erica Jayne, and had 10 songs recorded by Mickey Hart co written by Robert Hunter.
Andre’s had songs on major Motion pictures including the theme song from “Pink Cadillac” (Clint Eastwood), a song on “I Love you Phillip Morris (Jim Carrey) as well as numerous TV shows including: Sesame Street”, the theme song for the CBS Prime time reality show “There Goes the Neighborhood” as well as the Theme song for “Pride Fighting” He’s had 2 songs on Sega Genesis Daytona USA. He and Eric Martin wrote “The World Is On The Way”, recorded by MR Big. All the royalties donated to the Tsunami victims in Japan. The song raised over 300 thousand dollars in a few months and was voted “Song Of The Year” in 2011. He’s had 10 songs on the MR Big CD released October of 2014 and entered the Japanese charts at number 6. Andre was President of the San Francisco chapter of “The Recording Academy” for two years and a Governor for more than eleven years. He’s taught the business and craft of songwriting at WCS, Sonoma State and UCSF . His hit song “Anyway The Wind Blows” from the Clint Eastwood movie – “Pink Cadillac” won a BMI award for over one million plays. Andre has a song on the new Gregg Rolie CD Sonic Ranch also on the new Ronnie Montrose CD 10X10 Andre has the opening song in the new play “The Heart Of Rock N Roll which broke box office records in San Diego and will open on Broadway in the Fall of 2021. His song “We Keep Falling In Love” is on the number one streaming movie in the world “White Lines”