Producer and composer
Tommee Profitt excels at rousing, symphonic, synth-based music created with screen placements in mind. Beginning with 2017's
Vol. 1, he has released a series of collections under the Cinematic Songs banner, garnering tens of millions of streams for tracks including "Only One King" and his 2018 version of
Linkin Park's "In the End." His 2020 album
The Birth of a King featured covers of 17 Christmas classics, and his take on "O Holy Night" featuring
Tauren Wells and
SVRCINA landed in the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot Christian Songs chart. He rejoined
SVRCINA for the 2021 single "There for You." In addition to film and television placements, his music has appeared in video games, live sports broadcasts, film trailers, and much more.
A self-taught piano player who began producing his own music at the age of 12, Grand Rapids, Michigan native
Thomas James Profitt emerged with versions of "Carol of the Bells" and a movement of
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the mid-2010s. His song "Hurts Like Hell" featuring vocalist/songwriter
Fleurie appeared on a 2015 episode of Scream: The TV Series. Soon, his recordings were heard on shows such as Bones (Fox) and Reign (CW). In January 2017,
Profitt released the collection
Cinematic Songs, Vol. 1.
Fleurie was among several other singers to appear on the album, which also included a handful of instrumental tracks. She turned up again on
Vol. 2, issued just three months later, and went on become a frequent collaborator of
Profitt's. That year,
Profitt also produced Christian rapper
NF's Top 20 single "Let You Down."
Working from his studio in Franklin, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, the year 2018 brought three more editions of
Profitt's Cinematic Songs series, with
Vol. 3 arriving in February. That March, he released the song "In the End" featuring
Fleurie and rapper
Jung Youth. Issued in July 2018,
Cinematic Songs, Vol. 4's guests included artists like
Colton Dixon,
Sarah Reeves, and Whissell as well as
Fleurie.
Vol. 5 followed that November. Boosted by an inclusion on the CW series Legacies at the end of the year, a popular remix by Mellen Gi in early 2019, and viral status on social media, "In the End" soon crossed the hundred-million-stream threshold.
Featuring
Fleurie on over half the tracks,
Profitt's album
Gloria Regali saw release in April 2019, with
Cinematic Songs, Vol. 6 following in August. The collection
Covers, Vol. 1 appeared the next May, and in October 2020, he released the Christmas album
The Birth of a King. It reached the Top 30 of Billboard's Top Holiday Albums and Top Christian Albums charts. That year,
Profitt's songs also appeared in the films The Binge (Hulu) and Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (Disney+). Another collaboration with
SVRCINA, "There for You," was included on her 2020 album Elysian Fields and released as a single in September 2021. ~ Marcy Donelson