[2][3][4] Walk said he first wanted to work in the music industry when he was eight years old, when he listened to Boston's WRKO on his portable radio.

[8] Walk worked at Columbia Records in 1990 as a marketing and promotion manager covering the Northeast Region.

[18] Walk also broke new artists at Epic including The Script, Sean Kingston, The Fray, Sara Bareilles and Natasha Bedingfield.

[20] In February 2009, Walk started his own entertainment company CWE Media to create content for Endemol, with a talent management and strategic branding divisions.

The song has a blend of English and Spanish lyrics, and became the highest charting bilingual single since "The Macarena" in 1996.

[33] In 2016 Walk co-founded Guess Music, after approaching Paul Marciano to discuss his expanding their partnership into a full-fledged label.

In a statement, he said: "Out of respect for the contestants, my fellow judges and everyone involved with the show, I have made the decision not to attend the finale of The Four.

"[37][38] In March 2018, following an internal review, Universal and Walk agreed to "mutually part ways.

"[39][40][41][38][42] In March 2021, Walk filed a lawsuit seeking $60 million in damages from Marc Kasowitz, the attorney who negotiated his Universal exit deal.

The suit stated that rather than defending Walk against "facially incredible claims," Kasowitz and his law firm "passively cooperated with UMG, leaving Mr.