Roots and Rhythm: A Life in Music - Charlie Peacock

Peacock, Charlie: - Charlie Peacock is a Billboard chart-topping musical creator, a six-time Grammy Award-winning music producer (Folk, Country, Rock Gospel), and three-time recipient of the Gospel Music Association's Producer of the Year award (his recordings and productions exceed 25 million albums). Named by Billboard's Encyclopedia of Record Producers as one of the 500 most important producers in popular music history, Charlie has produced music for film and television and held executive and A&R positions at EMI/Universal and Sony/ATV. Charlie is the founder of the Universal Music Group imprint re: think; founder and director emeritus of the Commercial Music Program at Lipscomb University; and a longtime advocate for social justice, working directly with International Justice Mission, and the ONE Campaign beginning in 2002 when Charlie and wife Andi hosted co-founder Bono in their home, putting the rock-star activist in front of Nashville's artist community. Charlie is the creator/host of the Apple Top 100 music podcast Music & Meaning, and continues to create his own jazz/improvisational and singer-songwriter recordings, including Every Kind of Uh-Oh, a full-length vocal album produced by Charlie and his son, Grammy and Oscar-nominated songwriter and producer Sam Ashworth (H.E.R., Andy Grammer, Leslie Odom Jr.).