For the Songwriter Life Postponed

The Songs You Always Meant to Write. Finished. Real. Left Behind.

The Legacy Sessions: your melodies and memories — of the people, the places, the island, the era — produced as finished records by human hands, in any style your life sounded like. You write from wherever you are. We make it real.

Bronze medalist, ISC · Co-writer with Pam Sheyne (“Genie in a Bottle”) · Songs produced in neutral American English and in Spanish with a native Puerto Rican voice

The Second Act

Some of the best songwriters of a generation became doctors, teachers, engineers instead. The dream didn’t die — it got deferred, forty years, while the notebooks filled quietly.

I know because those writers are my clients now. One of them spent a career in medicine before returning to music in his late sixties — starting piano as a beginner, then discovering he didn’t need to learn production at all. He needed a partner who could take his voice memos and make them real: a heavy-metal anthem here, a modern country song there, an island song in the Spanish of his childhood — songs for his late parents, songs left waiting for his grandchildren. Twenty songs and counting. Every note performed by human hands. → his story

How It Works

Voice memo in. Finished record out.

1

Voice memo in — hum it, speak it, read the lyric, describe the memory. Rough is expected; rough is the format.

2

The scoping conversation — the song’s purpose, its era, its language, its path. We decide together what it needs to become.

3

Full production — arrangement, every instrument performed live, the vocal by me or cast for the song (in neutral American English, or in Spanish with a native Puerto Rican voice) → commercial mix and master → delivered on the path you choose.

The Three Paths

Choose how the song lives

Your Name, Featured Voice

Released to the world under your name — the Guetta structure. You remain the featured writer and the face of the song.

When the song is ready for the world under your own banner.

The Placement Path

Your song, carried by an established artist brand, with your ongoing share. The song travels; you keep ownership of the writing.

When the right voice and platform can carry it further.

The Realness Standard

A word about how these are made

Because it matters more here than anywhere: yes, modern AI can generate a song in seconds, and yes, I use advanced tools in planning. But no AI performance ever reaches a finished Legacy Session.

Every instrument, every voice, every breath is a human being playing for the people your song is for. My longest-running client could generate his songs for ten dollars a month. He commissions them instead — because a song you leave your grandchildren should have a heartbeat in it.

Beyond the File

The Live Performance

Some songs deserve a moment, not just a file: DC performs your song live at your event — the anniversary, the birthday, the family gathering it was written for.

From $2,500, scoped.

Born from a real client request: a father, a daughter, and the song he’d commissioned for her, performed live while the family filmed.

Bodies of Work

Most legacy writers don’t have one song

The Songbook planner tends to surface six to twelve. Collections are scoped as bodies of work (per-song rates from $3,500; multi-song collections scoped together), produced over months, delivered as an archive your family keeps forever.

Begin

Submit your first song

Limited commissions per quarter — every song is performed personally. Answered within five business days, either way.

1Record a voice memo of the song (or the memory) that is asking to be finished.
2Submit it through the short application.
3I listen personally and reply within five business days.
Submit Your First Song

Not sure what your songs are yet? Start with the free Legacy Songbook — print it, fill it, then reply.