Paul Meany (born July 2, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music director and record producer. He is best known as the

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and

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for the alternative rock band

Mutemath Mutemath (sometimes styled as MuteMath or MUTEMATH) is an American alternative rock project founded by American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Paul Meany. Originally co-founded as a band with Darren King in 2002, Me ...

Career

While under the moniker "Math" (the precursor to Mutemath), Paul Meany remixed the song "J Train" from

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's debut studio album

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. The remix appeared as the first track on the album Re:Mix Momentum by TobyMac, and included vocals from Meany. Meany has continued to work on many various projects outside of Mutemath, producing tracks for Forenn and KiND, as well as the debut EP of bandmate Jonathan Allen. Meany was the featured vocalist on

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single "Breaking Kind" released on August 4, 2017 as well as

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and Jason Ross' single "Higher Love" released on January 13, 2017. After Mutemath and

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parted ways in 2015 and the dissolution of the Teleprompt partnership, Meany launched his own independent label Wojtek Records based in New York. Mutemath's fourth & fifth full length albums and remix project were all released via Wojtek in partnership with

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. He was one of the co-founders of the independent label

Teleprompt Records Teleprompt Records was an independent record label that was formed in 2003 by record producer Tedd T, keyboardist and Mutemath vocalist Paul Meany, and manager Kevin Kookogey. The label was formed to promote and distribute music for Meany's band ...

that has since been dissolved. Prior to forming Mutemath with drummer

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, Meany was the keyboardist and backing vocalist for the band

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and provided the same for the beginning stages of another Adam LaClave-fronted band,

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. Meany has also co-produced tracks for Jeremy Larson and another Earthsuit spin-off, Club of the Sons. In 2003, Meany collaborated on an LP entitled, "Elevator Music," released by Victory Fellowship Church prior to Hurricane Katrina, and was later used as a fund-raising initiative to support victims. The album, comprising fifteen

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tracks, was recorded live at Victory Fellowship Church, with Meany providing lead vocals. Keytar

Meany assisted in producing much of the fifth

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studio album, ''

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'', which was released on October 5, 2018. He also contributed to the one-off single "

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" in 2020, which was recorded and released during the beginning of the

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in the United States. Meany previously worked with them alongside his former bandmates to "reimagine" and produce the ''TOPxMM'' EP that was released on December 19, 2016, which included four remakes off of their ''

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'' album, and the single " Heathens", as well as a live 20-minute video of the bands performing it together in the studio. He assisted in the production of the duo's sixth studio album, ''

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''; is a part of the band's live ensemble, and also acts as a musical director for them. Meany also produced "Creature", the closing track off of Half Alive's debut album, '' Now, Not Yet'', which released on August 9, 2019. In 2020 and 2021, Paul Meany worked with The Blue Stones, producing their second album "Hidden Gems," which was released on March 19, 2021. Meany is also currently recording post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil's fifth studio album in

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. Meany announced on social media that he would be releasing a solo album titled "Motivational Speaker" in 2023.

References

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