Buddy Ross

Buddy Ross is an American producer, keyboardist, songwriter and audio engineer from Washington state, active since 1999. He was a member of the band Motopony and produced and mixed their debut album in 2009. From 2012 to 2017 he played keyboards in Frank Ocean's touring band, and in 2017 he was music director for Ocean's festival headline shows. He worked on Blonde and Endless (2016), and his track "Running Around" is sampled on two Blonde songs. His other credits include Vampire Weekend's Father of the Bride (2019), Bon Iver's i,i (2019), HAIM, Travis Scott's Utopia (2023), and work in 2025 for Lorde, Justin Bieber, Dijon and Aminé.

In October 2020 PLZ Make It Ruins released "Bored Again!", with "Green Light", a collaboration with the Los Angeles and Melbourne songwriter Gabriel Delicious. His ambient album K We're Here came out on 24 October 2025 on his own label, Bored Again!, distributed by Stem.