Conversations with Charity Daw and Josh Edmondson

Today we’d like to introduce you to Charity Daw and Josh Edmondson.

Hi Charity and Josh, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
CHARITY DAW + JOSH EDMONDSON are a husband and wife team of RIAA platinum and Billboard chart-topping producer/songwriters that specialize in custom music for TV/Film, Brands, Recording Artists, & Gaming.

Their tunes have amassed well over a billion streams to date while gaining them a media-spanning roster of clients and credits from toy brands to major label artists, and everything in between.

If your kids are watching children’s & family-friendly programming, whether it be on TV or on streaming services, chances are you’re hearing US! From original tunes penned for series and movies to the 25+ commercial jingles we’ve written in the last two years alone; we’ve been fortunate to have had a pretty wide reach and range of projects.

Some of our latest projects include Mattel’s American Girl, the hit Disney’s Descendants trilogy, Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, The Loud House, Rugrats reboot on Paramount +, and L.O.L Surprise! We helped kick off the best-selling doll brand’s first-ever album and world-wide tour writing and performing danceable power-bops like “I’m A Queen” that has little girls singing self-affirmations at the top of their lungs.

“It’s always our number one goal to make sure we’re writing songs that inspire a feeling, especially when writing for a young demographic. Kids are the best authenticity detectors ever.”

Most recently, Josh is co-creating original songs for the premiere season of NBC’s James Wolk led drama, Ordinary Joe, and you can hear Charity lend her singing and speaking voice, along with all-original songs, to the “L.O.L Surprise! franchise ” and Netflix’s animated series ‘Rainbow High”.

Our story actually started in Nashville. We met here over a decade ago. Before we were collaborators or even a couple, we both followed a dream to the 615 with open minds and hearts as to what we’d find. We found each other and a new path that would lead us to Los Angeles, where our niche in the music industry was waiting to reveal itself.

Los Angeles had a broader sense at the time of what a career in music could be. Media was just beginning to really consolidate and songs/bands/artists were starting to make new inroads and find audiences in brand new ways. We had decided upon journeying west to throw out our ideas of how our careers “should” unfold. We were just ready to work and create, whatever that looked like.

We had made up our minds to walk through open doors. Those doors eventually led us to a career in making music for visual media of all types. We get to use all of our skill sets, and strengths and collaborate with other types of creatives. We are constantly inspired and excited about what’s next.

Fast forward. We had become pandemic-fatigued in California and decided to retreat to Nashville with intentions of only staying a few months. We were surprised to find out we were expecting a baby not long after. It was clear to us that we were going to stay indefinitely. Work/life balance IS one of Nashville’s finest exports!

After spending the last ten years in Los Angeles building our careers, it feels full circle be back in this community, and very special to be starting a family here! Our sweet baby boy, Ernie was born last July; our BEST song yet.
So grateful to get to bring the business we built back to where it all started.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There have been smoother stretches for sure, but it’s better described as a roller coaster than a road.

The greatest challenge has always been and will always be keeping up our mental game for the inevitable highs and lows that come with the territory.

We are thankful that we have each other, It makes the victories sweeter and the disappointments more tolerable.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
What I love most about writing music for visuals, is that we get to be a little part of the whole production. We read scripts, work with actors, do inspiring choreography, and get to move stories along through song.

Sometimes, a song will even push the script or character in a new direction.

It’s really amazing to see fully realized. What often starts in a windowless studio can end up on a scale larger than life, with one hundred dancers and fireworks. It can also be an intimate, emotional moment as well.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
What’s the quote about luck? “The harder I work the more I have of it.”

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.charitydaw.com
• Instagram: @charitydaw, @jedmo9
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharityDaw, https://twitter.com/joshedmondson
• Other: imdb.me/charitydaw, imdb.me/joshedmondson

Image Credits
Pyro Media, The Hollywood Christmas Parade, and MGA