Drew Ryan Scott (After Romeo)

Drew Ryan Scott is an American singer, songwriter, Record producer|producer and vocal producer. He is also a member of American boyband Varsity Fanclub (Originally signed to Capitol Records and acts as the group’s main songwriter.
Scott was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, is the son of an Elvis impersonator and is of 1/4th Japanese decent. Drew has stated that he started singing when he was about five years old after hearing Michael Jackson’s “Ben”. Scott says he would “sing for neighbors and friends” and progressively kept singing. Scott attended High School at performing arts high school, Las Vegas Academy where he was a member of the schools pop choir. While there Drew formed a music group with two friends, who went on to become winners of MTV’s reality show ”Say What? Karaoke”, a reality-TV show where ordinary people would sing well known songs in front of a crowd and would be judged on how they did by well known celebrities.

Career
One of Scott’s first steps towards a professional music career took place after he took part in a series of auditions held by production company Stonehall Entertainment and “survived a voting process much tougher than televised bootcamps American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance.”{ The production company sought “five triple threats” Vocalists, dancers and actors, “groomed to dazzle in the studio, onstage, and in every TV or film endeavor.” From 2006 through present day, Drew has been a member of Varsity Fanclub.



Songwriting & Producing
Scott made his first big step in his songwriting career after writing numerous songs for his band Varsity Fanclub and has stated he was soon was able to eventually write for others. Drew had had his first major song placement on Former Bad Boy recording artist Donnie Klang’s first studio album “Just a rolling stone” released late 2008 with a track titled “Pick it up” which he Co-wrote Since, Scott has written numerous songs for many popular music acts and has been described as “an extremely talented Top line writer”.

Songwriting credits

Scott has written for many popular Korean, American and European artists some of which include: SS501, SHINee,TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls Generation (SNSD), Taeyang, Brian Joo, Seo in Guk, Son Dam Bi, Arashi, Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez, Willow Smith, Jedward, Girlicious,Charice, Jonas Brothers, Blake Lewis, and Joey McIntyre among others.

Scott has stated he receives songwriting inspiration from things that have not been sang about and likes to relate them to love or everyday life situations, self experience and friends.