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Adam Kesselhaut is an American born singer, songwriter, producer, and author currently living in Berlin, Germany. He wrote songs for renowned artists. Some of his songs have been created in collaboration with the artists. Kesselhaut also invests time and effort to create new talent. In the past he worked together with artists like Seeed, Elaiza, Andreas Kümmert, Nick Howard, The White Dukes, KSFreak, Whatelse, Faye Montana, Q.Age, Seo In Guk, and Quarter.

Musical Composer
His musical, “Dies a dream of you“ was a nominated finalist for the Richard Rogers' Richard Rogers Award presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Coproductions
He continues working closely with producers and songwriters like Candy de Rouge, Falco, Celine Dione, Andrea Bocelli, Jennifer Rush and has worked with Malcolm Toft, David Bowie, The Beatles, Queen, Jens Gad, Enigma, and Jeff Blue, Linkin Park, Macey Gray and Korn.

Opera Background
Being a trained Opera singer, Kesselhaut has made appearances as a Tenor soloist in Philharmonic Rock, in various opera festivals. He as also had a stint in the Wiener Staatsoper.

Recent Work
In 2014 Kesselhaut´s song he produced together with Elaiza was chosen as Germany’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen. Currently Adam is the managing director of his own label Schwerkraft Musik as well as Mesanic Management which is a subsidiary of Mesanic GmbH.

Mesanic Music
His music Publishing company, Edition Mesanic Publishing, is a joint venture with BMG Rights Management.

Lectures
Adam continues to lecture in various schools and universities in including the Hochschule der Populäre Künste Berlin (College of Popular Arts ) and Akademie Deutsche Pop.