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CJ Tuttle sang in his old band — and is the first to admit that's most likely why it never went anywhere. He spent 25 years writing songs hoping the stars would sing them for him. In 2025, using AI, he built his own voices: CodiKrome, Krome Theory, Riffy Waters, Bubba Moh, Kairo Miles.

CJ Tuttle is a Rochester, NY songwriter who sang in his old band — and is the first to admit that's most likely why it never went anywhere. After winning recognition in the Billboard Songwriting Contest and the Great American Songwriting Contest with that band's demo, he stepped away from music for two decades. In 2025, CJ found Suno, dropped in his old lyrics, and quietly built CodiKrome — a country voice for songs that had been waiting twenty years for a singer. The debut LP Mama Didn't Raise No Quitter arrived August 2025 alongside a companion novel of the same name. The album hit 20,000+ streams and earned second place at a music video contest for "Matt's Song." Today CJ Tuttle Records spans five AI-built artists across country, rock, blues, soul, and pop. New single "Heavy Questions" — Bubba Moh's debut, with CodiKrome and Riffy Waters versions on day one — drops May 29, 2026.

CJ Tuttle can't sing. He's the first to admit it. He sang in his old band twenty-five years ago, and is the first to say that's most likely why it never went anywhere. The band did do one thing, though: recorded a single one-take demo — a one-shot session because they couldn't afford a second — and CJ used that demo to enter the Billboard Songwriting Contest and the Great American Songwriting Contest. Both contests recognized his work. Nothing else came of it. Life moved on. CJ stepped away from music entirely for two decades. In late 2024, after twenty years away, CJ walked into House of Guitars in Rochester to try a Taylor. He didn't want to put it down — afraid someone else would come take it if he did. He bought it that day. A month later, he joined a course on AI video tools. The instructor demoed Suno in one of the lessons, and CJ immediately thought of his old lyrics. He fed in "Halfway" — the same song he'd entered in those contests two decades earlier — and left the style field blank. What came back is essentially the "Halfway There (CodiKrome Version)" streaming on Spotify today. He kept going. "Some Ghosts Never Die" arrived — the first brand-new song he wrote after the revival. That was the moment he decided this was an album. Fifteen tracks released under the name CodiKrome. Alongside it, a companion novel CJ wrote about the experience — started as a blog post, became fiction by the time it was done — with QR codes embedded throughout the book linking to the soundtrack. Mama Didn't Raise No Quitter (the album and the novel both) arrived August 2025. 20,000+ streams. A second-place finish at a music video contest for "Matt's Song," written for CJ's best friend Matt who passed in 2001. CodiKrome was the first voice. CJ kept building. The roster now spans five artists — CodiKrome, Krome Theory, Riffy Waters, Bubba Moh, Kairo Miles — across country, rock, pop/reggae, soul/blues, and modern soul. New single "Heavy Questions" — Bubba Moh's debut, with CodiKrome and Riffy Waters versions on day one — drops May 29. The lyrics are all his. The voices are imagined. The songwriter remains a songwriter — still writing every day, still looking for the right voice to sing what he can't.