Nappi’s recent work includes songs with UPSAHL, Anne‑Marie, Little Mix, Madison Beer, 30 Seconds To Mars, Iann Dior and Mike Shinoda. A couple of year after that I formed a band called Ocean Park Standoff, together with singer Ethan Thompson and DJ Samantha Ronson, and we signed to Hollywood Records. I left the school, moved out to LA in 2013 and started writing and producing. I met Kara DioGuardi there, and she signed me to her company and arranged for a publishing deal with Universal. “After high school I went to the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and majored in film scoring and minored in conducting. It made no sense, but a high school buddy of mine, Johnny Simpson, now also has major success as a writer and producer. At high school we had a music theory teacher, Mr Kevin Dunne, who somehow had convinced the school to get computers with Pro Tools, and even a Control 24. Originally from Long Island, Nappi has played drums since he was eight years old, and started messing with GarageBand, he says, “when I was 10 or 11. The end result was still pretty close to my first demo, though.” Peter Nappi By Christmas 2020 I had finished up the arrangement, also changing the chords in the chorus sightly, adding some live drums, and making sure all the sounds were the best they can be. I now crank up the gang vocals for every song I do with her, because I know she will email me asking for that. And she wanted me to crank up the gang vocals. Photo: Luke Rogers“I got some notes from Gayle, who wanted electric guitars throughout, also in the verses, and for the song to be rock and yet also modern and cool. ![]() A few weeks later one of my buddies reminded me of it, and I reckoned it was a good idea to send over my demo, to see what they thought and whether they wanted me to finish it. ![]() ![]() But when Kara calls it’s different, so I agreed, and spent three hours or so working on the song before going to another session. I was very busy at the time, and might normally have declined to work on a song, by an unknown singer with no releases, which might not even come out. It had had several different productions, yet no‑one could nail it. There were several songs in development, and ‘ABCDEFU’ was one of them. She has worked with Gayle off and on since she was 14, and signed her to her company, and then also got her a deal with Atlantic. “I am signed to Arthouse Entertainment, which is a company owned by songwriter Kara DioGuardi. Nappi’s encounter with the song started on December 8th, 2020. It’s also a really cool song, but you cannot foresee or plan this kind of success.” Alphabet Soup ![]() Gayle is extremely talented, and when you meet her you know she’s going to be successful. I don’t think anyone saw the enormous success of the song coming. “I try to stay off my phone as much as possible, and don’t have TikTok, so when the song started blowing up on there, I had no idea, until people were texting me about it,” laughs Nappi. By the middle of January, it had reached the top ten in more than 30 countries, including the US, and number one in a dozen places, including the UK. However, just like Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ and Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’, ‘ABCFEFU’ blew up on TikTok and then took the world by storm. Produced by Peter Nappi.Gayle’s song was finally released on August 13th, 2021, as her first major label single, and no‑one expected it to be a huge hit. ‘ABCDEFU’ - Written by Taylor Rutherford, Sara Davis & David Pittenger. No big‑name mixer was involved in the end product, and the track was mastered automatically on LANDR. He considered it a routine assignment, as did the people who had sent him the files. Late in 2020, producer Peter Nappi received some vocal and acoustic guitar files by an unknown 16‑year old singer called Gayle, with the request to create a production around the song. It was just another session for producer Peter Nappi, but Gayle’s ‘ABCDEFU’ would become one of the most listened‑to tracks of 2022. This photo was taken in the studio of singer and producer Jon Bellion.
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