Mr Hudson, the British songwriter, showed up to a recording studio owned by Spotify in the basement of the Sunset Marquis hotel in Los Angeles. "I got there super-early, putting flowers in a vase and making sure the right kind of mineral water was on the table and burning incense," he recalls.
Soon producer Greg Wells was at the grand piano and Mr Hudson and producer Nasri were pacing, coffee in hand, searching for a big idea.
John Legend showed up and within hours the quartet sketched out "Never Break," the closing track on his just-released album, Bigger Love.Spotify, Mr Hudson says, "created that beautiful space for us to work" as one of the several songwriting initiatives the streaming giant has been pushing over the past few years..
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