Also known as Sonny King in the music industry, Tim (he/him) is an Emmy-award-winning TV composer, music producer, songwriter, and professional audio engineer with over fifteen years of experience. Early in his career he was a signed recording artist with NVS Music Group and Universal Music Group touring and performing across the country. He's worked with major recording artists and super producers like Young Scooter, Grammy winner Fanatic (Beyoncé, Diddy), and many more. While working in some of the top recording studios in Atlanta and North Carolina, Tim realized his love for music production and formed the company Music by King Inc. Perfecting his mixing/mastering skills, he became a sought after engineer and producer throughout the east coast. He's also an accomplished TV and film composer working with popular TV productions, like Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the NBA, and Lizzo's Amazon TV series, on major networks like Hulu and HBO Max. Tim has traveled internationally, co-producing, recording, and performing with famous Italian funk band Dirotta Su Cuba and appearing on the finale of Italy's reality TV show All Together Now in Rome. Tim is a five-time Global Music Award winner, four-time Intercontinental Music Award Winner, USA Songwriting Competition winner, a three-time Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee, and most recently became a voting member of the Recording Academy Grammys and an advocate for musicians rights. In July, Tim helped write the recently published book How to Write Better Songs: Songwriting Secrets from Award-Winning Songwriters along with several other award-winning songwriters including Scott Ashley.

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Also known as Sonny King in the music industry, Tim (he/him) is an Emmy-award-winning TV composer, music producer, songwriter, and professional audio engineer with over fifteen years of experience. Early in his career he was a signed recording artist with NVS Music Group and Universal Music Group touring and performing across the country. He's worked with major recording artists and super producers like Young Scooter, Grammy winner Fanatic (Beyoncé, Diddy), and many more. While working in some of the top recording studios in Atlanta and North Carolina, Tim realized his love for music production and formed the company Music by King Inc. Perfecting his mixing/mastering skills, he became a sought after engineer and producer throughout the east coast. He's also an accomplished TV and film composer working with popular TV productions, like Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the NBA, and Lizzo's Amazon TV series, on major networks like Hulu and HBO Max. Tim has traveled internationally, co-producing, recording, and performing with famous Italian funk band Dirotta Su Cuba and appearing on the finale of Italy's reality TV show All Together Now in Rome. Tim is a five-time Global Music Award winner, four-time Intercontinental Music Award Winner, USA Songwriting Competition winner, a three-time Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee, and most recently became a voting member of the Recording Academy Grammys and an advocate for musicians rights. In July, Tim helped write the recently published book How to Write Better Songs: Songwriting Secrets from Award-Winning Songwriters along with several other award-winning songwriters including Scott Ashley.

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Also known as Sonny King in the music industry, Tim (he/him) is an Emmy-award-winning TV composer, music producer, songwriter, and professional audio engineer with over fifteen years of experience. Early in his career he was a signed recording artist with NVS Music Group and Universal Music Group touring and performing across the country. He’s worked with major recording artists and super producers like Young Scooter, Grammy winner Fanatic (Beyoncé, Diddy), and many more. While working in some of the top recording studios in Atlanta and North Carolina, Tim realized his love for music production and formed the company Music by King Inc. Perfecting his mixing/mastering skills, he became a sought after engineer and producer throughout the east coast. He’s also an accomplished TV and film composer working with popular TV productions, like Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the NBA, and Lizzo’s Amazon TV series, on major networks like Hulu and HBO Max. Tim has traveled internationally, co-producing, recording, and performing with famous Italian funk band Dirotta Su Cuba and appearing on the finale of Italy’s reality TV show All Together Now in Rome. Tim is a five-time Global Music Award winner, four-time Intercontinental Music Award Winner, USA Songwriting Competition winner, a three-time Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee, and most recently became a voting member of the Recording Academy Grammys and an advocate for musicians rights. In July, Tim helped write the recently published book How to Write Better Songs: Songwriting Secrets from Award-Winning Songwriters along with several other award-winning songwriters including Scott Ashley.

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Skills

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Master
Mi
Mix
So
Soundtrack
Th
Theme Tune

Experience Level

Master
Expert
Mix
Expert
Soundtrack
Expert
Theme Tune
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Education

Audio Engineering at GTCC
June 10, 2008
Music Theory at Berkeley School of Music
May 17, 2011

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Gaming, Other
    uniE603 Never Come Down for Netflix original Perfect Match
    I composed and wrote this song and instrumental for the Netflix Original Series "Perfect Match". #instrumental #music #soundtrack
    uniE603 Stayed Down for Lizzo's TV Show (Composed by Timothy Word)
    Here is a mid tempo song and instrumental I composed for the 3x Emmy Award winning tv show "Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls". The music was featured in 3 episodes of the 8 part series.
    uniE603 Adams Audio Commercial (Scored by Timothy Word)
    This is high energy hip hop composed for the company Adams Audio.
    uniE608 The Art of Imagination (scored by Timothy Word)
    Here is a short film I scored titled The Art of Imagination. The film has no voice over only music. I was tasked with capturing the emotion of each scene with and expressing the feeling of the actors.
    uniE608 My Introduction
    Hi my name is Timothy Word. I'm known musically as Sonny King. This is an introduction to myself and my production company Music By King Inc. #video #TvFilmComposer #Composer #MusicProducer #AudioEngineer