{"id":425,"date":"2015-05-22T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:32:59","slug":"maddy-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/maddy-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddy Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently in Nashville, TN, Madison is\u00a0pursuing a career as a professional songwriter.\u00a0Recently\u00a0 (2018) Madison was selected as part of a group of songwriters for ASCAP’s GPS program, an initiative that pairs up and coming songwriters with prominent Music Publishers in Nashville.<\/p>\n

She started writing songs while at ESA. In fact\u00a0she recorded her debut – Don’t Be a Stranger<\/p>\n

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Maddy Rodriguez, songwriter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

– album\u00a0during senior year.\u00a0She wrote the title track as a goodbye to\u00a0her friends at ESA. Since that album, Maddy has\u00a0released a couple of EPs and some singles with support from FACTOR and the Ontario Arts Council. Some of her songs\u00a0have\u00a0been played on\u00a0some radio stations in Canada and the US.\u00a0She has won a few songwriting competitions like the International Acoustic Music Awards, the UK Songwriting Contest and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Grand Prize and Lennon Award). Her song Tahiti appeared in an episode of Army Wives (ABC Studios) and her song Un Poco de Ti was featured on an episode of Switched at Birth (Disney\/ABC).\u00a0 Maddy\u00a0attended the University of Toronto for a couple of years, but decided to put that part of\u00a0her life on hold to focus on songwriting as much as possible (working part time).\u00a0She is\u00a0currently living in Nashville, Tennessee on an O1 Visa (“O-1\u00a0nonimmigrant\u00a0visa\u00a0is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics…”)\u00a0travelling back to Toronto frequently.<\/p>\n

See:\u00a0 www.maddyrodriguezsongs.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Currently in Nashville, TN, Madison is\u00a0pursuing a career as a professional songwriter.\u00a0Recently\u00a0 (2018) Madison was selected as part of a group of songwriters for ASCAP’s GPS program, an initiative that pairs up and coming songwriters with prominent Music Publishers in Nashville. She started writing songs while at ESA. 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