Josh Ramsay is a well-known artist and entrepreneur from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a singer, songwriter, producer, recording engineer, actor and lead vocalist in Marianas Trench. Josh started Marianas trench in 2001 at the age of 20. Josh asked his high school friend Matt Webb, who is now the guitarist, to start a band with him. The two of them responded to a newspaper ad put out by Ian Casselman, lead drummer, looking to play in a band. Ian then introduced the duo to his roommate, Mike Ayley, who is the band’s bass guitarist. The four members are still the four members of the band today, who is currently on their Suspending Gravity Tour. The band has produced 5 full-length studio albums, been nominated for 65 music awards, and won 17 of them. While you might not recognize Josh for his own band, you might know him through some of his songs he has written. He has written 16 well known songs, including 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Story of Another Us”, Nickelback’s “Satellite” and “She keeps me up”, and the most well-known, Carly Ray Jepson’s “Call me Maybe” as well as “Guitar Strings/ Wedding Rings”. Josh Ramsay is an incredible entrepreneur who took his love of music to start an amazing career as a musician, songwriter, and producer.
I have never heard of this band before or of any of it’s members, but that seems like a pretty cool and interesting story on the band. It is interesting to me that a lot of musical artists do not always write all of their own music, and that they rely on others artists or song writers to write a portion of their music. What kind of music do they make? Anyways, that was a very good and very informative post.
This sounds really cool. I had not heard of the band before, however I am familiar with the songs listed! Interesting how the performers of works often get all of the credit rather than the original writers. Josh seems very successful in his entrepreneurial efforts towards the music industry.
Hey, it’s Jules, one of the Entrepreneurial Mind TAs!
I personally never heard of this group/person before, but it is the perfect illustration of how entrepreneurship is an extremely versatile career. SO many musicians are entrepreneurial and creative- that’s how they are so good at what they do!