
Show overview
Now Hear This Entertainment has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 647 episodes. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Bruce Wawrzyniak.
From the publisher
Now Hear This Entertainment features interviews with guests who are having success in the entertainment business, with the content presented in a way that not only entertains fans of that guest and fans of good music interviews in general, but in a manner that educates musicians, singers, songwriters – entertainers who want to learn from those who are being interviewed each week by Bruce Wawrzyniak, Member of the Recording Academy and president of Now Hear This, Inc. The guests come from a wide array of genres and locales.
Latest Episodes
View all 647 episodesNHTE 645 Jeffrey Kunzel
NHTE 644 Rebecca Lynn Howard
NHTE 643 Scott Holderby
NHTE 642 Rob Hatch
NHTE 641 Daniel Keller
NHTE 640 Thaddeus Corea
NHTE 639 Zoe Thrall
NHTE 638 Justin Gray
NHTE 637 Matt Warren
NHTE 636 Chris Standring
NHTE 635 Melissa Joiner

NHTE 634 Gigi Zimmer
E<p>Southern California-based vocalist, songwriter, bass player, engineer, and producer who has worked out of some of L.A.’s most renowned studios. She has worked on projects with artists ranging from Brittany Broski to Elishéva Lilla to Moral to Still Motions and more. She is also an Ampeg artist and is also part of the alt-punk / hardcore / indie-rock band Cun.trol. She has even worked for Warner Music and Atlantic Records.</p>

NHTE 633 Alex Miller
<p>Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who just released a new single in mid-February and has a full album coming out on April 10th. Already in his young career he has opened for the likes of Hank Williams, Jr., Josh Turner, Lee Brice, Jamey Johnson, and Brooks &amp; Dunn, among others. Plus, two years ago he made his debut on the Grand Ole Opry. Five years ago, at the age of just 17 years old he was on Season 19 of “American Idol.” He has half-a-million followers on TikTok, over 22 million combined video views on his official YouTube channel, and more than 1.8 million streams on his top five songs alone on Spotify, where he has close to 72 thousand monthly listeners.</p>

NHTE 632 Andi Jane
<p>Singer, songwriter, keyboard, and washboard player who just released a nine-song album last month and did an album release event for it in Nashville. The new album has already hit #80 on the Americana charts, plus it has been getting airplay in Europe. Based in Music City, she even already has a five-song EP in the pipeline. Her music journey has seen her go from dance rock band to DJ to Americana to what she now calls Honky Tonk Cabaret, although it is said that her new album leans bluegrass in spirit. She even has a show coming up in May in Australia. Previously, she was in a band called Catfish Seminar.</p>

NHTE 631 Jerry Salley
<p>He has been referred to by Billboard Magazine as "One of Music Row's greatest veteran tunesmiths.” A multi-award-winning songwriter, he has had over 580 different songs recorded and his songs have sold in excess of 19 million records worldwide. He was a co-writer on a song that Chris Stapleton won a GRAMMY for last year for “Best Country Performance of the Year.” This past Friday he released a new album that is a gospel-bluegrass project, plus he has a GRAMMY nomination on his résumé as a producer in the Gospel Roots category. Internationally, he has written no less than nine Number 1 Country hits in Australia! He is even an eight-time Dove Award nominee in the country, bluegrass, and southern gospel categories. As an artist, he has performed worldwide and has had the honor of performing as a soloist many times on the world-famous Grand Ole Opry. Plus, he has sung as background vocalist for Linda Ronstadt on Late Night with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.</p>

NHTE 630 Lisa Hilton
<p>An award-winning composer and acclaimed jazz pianist, as well as a producer and bandleader. A voting member of the Recording Academy, she has 31 albums released in the United States as well as two in Asia. She has performed at venues of all sizes, including Carnegie Hall, The Smithsonian, and UCLA Royce Theater, among others. At the end of November, she released an album that the London Times called one of “The Best Jazz Albums of 2025.” Her albums regularly sit at the top of the Jazz Week and other radio/streaming charts, for the last two decades drawing millions of plays on streaming services and appearing regularly as an Amazon Number 1 New Jazz Release.</p>

NHTE 629 John Beasley
<p>Pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and music director whose work has earned two GRAMMY Awards, 14 nominations, two Latin GRAMMY nods, and an Edison Award. Plus, his musical direction for the Jazz at the White House broadcast earned an Emmy nomination. He performed with Miles Davis, has collaborated with Chaka Khan, Stanley Clarke, and more, plus he has been musical director with Steely Dan, Queen Latifah, and others. In addition, he spent a decade as Lead Arranger for American Idol and The Tonight Show. He currently tours with Dianne Reeves and various European orchestras, all while preparing three releases for this year, supported by global tours.</p>

NHTE 628 Kim Scott
<p>A number 1 Billboard charting flutist, a composer, recording and touring artist, educator, and radio show host who just released a new single early last month. She was named BEATS Magazine’s “Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2024 and has performed at notable venues and events from here in the U.S. to Portugal to London and even on the Dave Koz Cruise. She is also a member of the all-female jazz supergroup Jazz in Pink. She is the radio host of a nationally syndicated, two-hour jazz program. She has more than 69 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs alone have a combined total of nine-and-a-half million streams, plus, her official YouTube channel has had over 1.8 million combined video views. This interview was recorded on location in Anaheim, California, where she was performing at the NAMM Show.</p>

NHTE 627 Shantaia
<p>Recorded on-location at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California with a Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who put out four singles last year. In 2025, she opened the NAMM She Rocks Awards and performed at PRS Guitars’ 40th Anniversary Party alongside legends like John Mayer. In 2022 she scored her first Top 40 Canadian country single, which passed one million streams, and landed on multiple “Best Songs of the Year” lists. She has performed at notable events such as Americana Fest, Key West Songwriters Festival, and Whiskey Jam, and she has approximately 26 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs have a combined total of well over 1.9 million streams.</p>

NHTE 626 Sophie Pecora
<p>Singer, songwriter, guitar and piano player who released two singles last year and has a brand-new song coming out this Friday, February 13th. She was on season 14 of “America’s Got Talent” and won the golden buzzer, plus in 2021 she won the grand prize of the Unsigned Only Music Competition out of ten thousand entries from 120 countries. She has put up amazing numbers: two million followers on TikTok alone, more than 24 million combined video views on her official YouTube channel, and over 68 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs have combined for an astounding 28 million-plus streams.</p>