Music From So You Think You Can Dance

Ricky Jaime and Ryan Ramirez are among the Top 16 contestants in the hit FOX TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". Both are trained in many areas but specialize in contemporary. This made a great match for choreographer Sonya Tayeh and the music from So You Think You Can Dance.

(Season 8, Episode 10, Airdate 6/29/2011) in which Sonya, Ricky and Ryan are in rehearsal. Sonya gives a description for the emotion of the dance while Ricky and Ryan explain what their focus will be. The show's producers needed a song that would capture the ears of the audience and the raw emotions that where not only coming out of Sonya's explanation but from Ricky and Ryan as well.

Music supervisor for "So You Think You Can Dance" Wendy Marmo is an expert when it comes to finding "new music". She has worked with the likes of Interscope Music Publishing and MCA Music Publishing pitching songs to artists, film and television. She has also held management positions at Priority Records and Universal Music Group and currently owns and operates her personal business, "Super Music Services".

The challenge for Wendy to find the right music to put in the show for the rehearsal scene with Sonya, Ricky and Ryan must have been an easy one when she found the song "Needle & Spoon" by Singer/Songwriter Brett Ryan Stewart. Throughout the song Stewart takes us through a journey of happiness, pain, love and loss. The haunting melody reflects on the questions that occur when accepting the results of our actions and/or decisions we have made, not only for ourselves but with each other.

Sonya Tayeh explains "The dance is about a couple who are in love, but know that it's ending". To implement her idea for the dance Sonya asks Ryan and Ricky to draw from their own life experiences of love and loss and their struggles to let go.

Ryan Ramirez, Age 19, from Morgan Hill, California "has never been in love and because of that I have a lot of pain and frustration which is what the dance is about".

Ricky Jaime, age 19, from Miami "for me personally I'm going to be thinking about my father. My father left my mom when I was born".

Amidst the emotionally charged interview plays Brett Ryan Stewart's angelic song "Needle & Spoon" The Song provides the perfect backdrop and clearly fit's the context of what the shows producers where looking for. Big kudos to Wendy Marmo for a fantastic new artist placement.