Chris DeStefano


Christopher Michael DeStefano is a Grammy Award-winning American singer/songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Nashville. As a songwriter, he has multiple #1 songs with artists Carrie Underwood, Billy Currington, Brett Eldredge, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts and Jason Aldean.
DeStefano was raised in Mount [Laurel, New Jersey] and graduated from Lenape High School in 1993. He was in the school's music program while playing with a progressive rock band in the area.
Underwood's "Good Girl", which DeStefano co-wrote, reached number 1 on Hot Country Songs in 2012. He also co-wrote and produced Brett Eldredge's number 1 single "Don't Ya". He co-wrote “Something in the Watersung by Carrie Underwood which was the #1 song for seven weeks, the 3rd longest running female #1 Hot Country song in chart history. DeStefano co-wrote "Kiss Somebody" with Australian singer, Morgan Evans, and fellow American songwriter, Josh Osborne. At the APRA [Music Awards of 2018] the song and its writers won Country Work of the Year.