Cody R Burns was born in Missoula, Montana. While growing up, he performed in many small theater productions through the Missoula Children's Theater until 2002 when his family relocated to Oregon. There he met childhood friend Chris Rex and by 2004, the two co-founded a volunteer media organization called Spike Industries Studios. The next years saw the start of a handful of projects, most notably Rex's Prank Calls series and Guadalajara: The Experience. Unfortunately, the company had to shut down in 2006 due to disputes among Guadalajara cast members and would not reopen until 2009 when Rex and Burns reignited the Prank Calls series. Since then, Burns has worked on many personal projects for the company, including but not limited to four full rounds of Prank Calls volumes, his popular music project Acoustics, a DVD release of Guadalajara: The Experience, and several novel releases in his King Of The Golden Sun adventure series. While moving forward in personal side-projects, Burns has also worked on film and TV shows in Portland, such as Wild (2014) and NBC's Grimm. He also continues to make and produce solo music albums, his fourth, "Another Day Another Beach", and fifth, "Take Me Back", co-releasing in summer 2016.