Stephan Moccio, Oscar and Grammy Nominated Writer and Producer Behind Multi-Platinum Hits for Miley Cyrus and The Weeknd, Offers Hope, Guidance, and Healing on “Fireflies”

Brand New Piano Album Lionheart Due Out October 15 on Decca Records

Ahead of the release of Stephan Moccio’s brand new solo piano record Lionheart (October 15, Decca Records), the Oscar-nominated and Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer behind multi-platinum hits for superstar artists like Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd and Celine Dion has shared his new single “Fireflies.” The song is a tender evocation of hope and awakening, which finds Moccio painting the familiar portrait of lightning bugs brightening up the dark. Throughout the stunning piece, he offers an aura of guidance that reminds listeners they can always find their way back home to the same porchlight.

"Elegant, simple and uncomplicated,” says Moccio. “We are left with the feeling that something is right in the world after experiencing this piece. Fireflies is hope, Fireflies is light, Fireflies is benevolence… I wanted to leave us with that feeling… the feeling of love."

Listen to “Fireflies” here: https://stephanmoccio.lnk.to/FirefliesSo

Pre-Order / Pre-Save Lionheart (out October 15th via Decca Records) here: https://stephanmoccio.lnk.to/LionheartPR

After Moccio’s enormous success in the pop world and as a solo artist with over 400 million streams, “Fireflies” and Lionheart find the classically-trained Canadian virtuoso returning to his music roots on the piano. A cathartic response to coping with painful life changes, Moccio spent weeks alone at the piano in his Laurel Canyon home studio and emerged with the purest manifestation of his musical vision and self-expression to date. The fourteen tracks on Lionheartpositively radiate with sophistication, and stand as the masterful pinnacle of his ultra-vivid imagination and musicianship.

In his expression of complex and nuanced emotions through melody alone, Stephan Moccio has proven to possess a “rare gift for delivering emotionally charged tales of love, loss and hope without words” (Billboard). Following seven hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, three Grammy nominations and an Oscar nod, Lionheart affirms Moccio as a handcrafting melodist and singular force who’s redefining the possibilities of piano music by adding an entirely new urgency to the time-honored genre.