Clarence Jey

Clarence Jey is a record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter of Australian Tamil origin now established in Los Angeles, United States. He has been part of band projects, fused world music styles, and has composed and produced a number of artists, including music for U.S. Hit TV show Glee and U.S. TV host Jimmy Fallon's 2013 Grammy Winning Record Blow Your Pants Off.

Since 2010, Jey had contributed in creating music for his former company ARK Music Factory and its artists and has gained notoriety as being the co-writer and producer of Rebecca Black's viral video "Friday", which reached number 58 on US Billboard Top 100 and was one of the fastest YouTube Music Videos in history to hit 100 million hits in 2011 surpassing the record held by Justin Beiber's song "Baby".

In May 2011, Clarence Jey left Ark Music Factory to focus on his own production company and LA Recording Studio, Music Intersection,. In June 2011, he co-created MIAM Music Publishing which controls "Friday" the composition and was responsible for administering all versions of "Friday", as well as orchestrating Kohl's Black Friday campaign theme song for 2011. In 2012, Jey gained additional notoriety with Late Night host Jimmy Fallon confirming the release of his album Blow Your Pants Off, featuring "Friday", as performed by Fallon and Stephen Colbert - an album with a high profile rock star line up including Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen. On December 5, 2012, Jimmy Fallon's second album Blow Your Pants Off, featuring Jey's song "Friday" was nominated for the 2013 Grammy Awards. On February 10, 2013, the album went on to win a Grammy Award held on February 10, 2013.

Biography
Born to a Sri Lankan Tamil family, Jey grew up in Australia and had his musical debut performing with local Australian bands. He also composed and produced music through his studio in Melbourne, and produced most notably the Australian Pop/Rap duo Soul Class, which was signed to Australia's independent record label, Mushroom Records.

He has worked with a number of artists, including Cindy Santini, Samantha Lombardi, Richie Kotzen, and Latvian Top 10 artist Ladybird. Jey worked with Australian singer/songwriter Samantha Lombardi for her debut album, and co-wrote and co-produced music for Emmy-winning television show Growing Up Creepie,  which featured songs performed by Lombardi. The collaboration resulted in the theme song for the television show as well as additional material. In 2009, he attained additional US notice with Cindy Santini's first single, "Hello My Love", which appeared on her debut album Making Sound, released through Fontana Distribution/Universal Music.

Jey has collaborated or worked with songwriter/producer Herbie Crichlow, singer Delious Kennedy from R&B/pop group All-4-One, the late sound engineer Mike Shipley, Arejay Hale from the rock band Halestorm, Miles Copeland III (manager of English rock band The Police), Charlie Mason (Hannah Montana), songwriter Mick Walsh, sound track songwriter Wendy Parr, American actress/singer Shanica Knowles (Hannah Montana), Jeff Marx (creator of the Musical, Avenue Q), Fab Morvan from Milli Vanilli and Australian record producer Paul Wiltshire (Backstreet Boys). Jey has also produced many remixesincluding remix of former member of glam rock band Poison, Richie Kotzen's top selling single "You Can't Save Me" in 2010.

Since 2010, Jey had contributed in creating music for Ark Music Factory and its artists. They also penned and produced the song "Friday", sung by one of Ark Music Factory's artists, Rebecca Black. The song has been panned by Time magazine's website, and has become a viral sensation due to its controversial reviews. Friday was cast in season two of Glee which resulted in the Glee version of the song re-charting on Billboard Top 100, peaking in at #33. Friday achieved additional notoriety when it became Kohl's Black Friday campaign theme song for 2011.

Since leaving Ark, Jey continues to produce music through his own entity Music Intersection and further created Los Angeles based entertainment label Pop-U-Lar, featuring artists such as Kenny James.