Chris Braide

Chris Braide
Birth name	Christopher Braide
Origin	Cheshire, United Kingdom
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Vocals, guitars, piano, synths, strings
Years active	1990s – present
Labels	Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records, East West Records, Polydor
Associated acts	Sia, Lana Del Rey, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Yuna, Christina Aguilera, Paloma Faith, David Guetta, Theophilus London, Cathy Dennis
Website	chrisbraide.com

Christopher "Chris" Braide^[1] is an English singer-songwriter and record producer^[2][3] based in Los Angeles.

Braide has worked as a songwriter and producer in the UK and the US and was co-founder and co-producer of Producers^[4] with Trevor Horn.^[5]

Braide produced and wrote songs for The Great Gatsby soundtrack,^[6][7] Britney Spears,^[8] Beyoncé,^[9] Lea Michele, Jennifer Hudson,^[10] Christina Aguilera,^[11] David Guetta,^[12] Sia Furler,^[13] Paloma Faith,^[14] Lana Del Rey, Marc Almond^[15] and, along with Pharrell Williams^[16] produced the US debut full-length by Yuna^[17][18]

Braide co-wrote and produced the single "Perfume" for Britney Spears with Sia Furler, He also wrote and co-produced "God Made You Beautiful" with Sia Furler and Beyoncé.

Songwriting and Producer discography

Year	Artist	Album	Label	Song	Writer/Producer
2016	Sia	This Is Acting	Columbia	"Confetti"	Writer/ Producer
				"Midnight Decisions"	Writer/ Producer
	Sia	This Is Acting	Columbia	"Unstoppable"
				"Space Between"	Writer/ Producer
2015	Selena Gomez	Revival	Interscope	Camouflage
	Halsey	Room 93	Astralwerks/Capitol	"Trouble"
	Marc Almond	The Velvet Trail	Cherry Red Records	All songs	Co-Writer/Producer
	Kate Pierson	Guitars and Microphones	Kobalt	"4 songs"	Writer/Producer
	Katharine McPhee	Hysteria
2014	Sia	1000 Forms of Fear	Columbia	"Eye Of The Needle"	Writer
				"Big Girls Cry"	Writer/ Producer
	Colbie Caillat	Gypsy Heart	Universal	"Break Free"
	Paloma Faith	A Perfect Contradiction	EPIC/RCA	"Impossible Heart"
	Afrojack	Forget the World	Universal / Def Jam	"Ten Feet Tall"
2013	Lea Michele	Louder	Columbia	"If You Say So"
				"You're Mine"
	Britney Spears	Britney Jean	RCA	"Perfume"
				"Brightest Morning Star"	Vocal Producer
	Beyoncé	Life Is But a Dream	Columbia	"God Made You Beautiful"	Writer/ Producer
	Sia	The Great Gatsby soundtrack[6]	Interscope Records	"Kill and Run"[19]
	David Guetta featuring Sia	Nothing But the Beat 2.0	Virgin Records/ EMI	"She Wolf"[20]
	Stooshe	London with the Lights On	Warner Bros	"Your Own Kind of Beautiful"[21]
				"Perfectly Wrong"
	Yuna	Nocturnal	Verve/ Universal	"Rescue"[22]
				"Colors"
				"Escape"
				"Come Back"	Producer
		Sixth Street (EP)		"Let Love Come Through Ft Kyle"[23]	Writer/ Producer
	Sarah Brightman	Dreamchaser	Decca	"Closer"[24]
2012	Lana Del Rey	Born To Die[25]	Interscope	"Million Dollar Man"[26]
			Leak	"Damn You"
				"Queen of Disaster"
				"Hollywood's Dead"
	Christina Aguilera	Lotus	RCA	"Blank Page"[27]
	Paloma Faith	Fall to Grace	Epic	"30 Minute Love Affair"[28]	Writer
	Yuna	Yuna[29]	Fader	"Lullabies"	Writer/ Producer
				"Favorite Things"
				"Loud Noises"
				" Islands "
				" Decorate "
	Delta Goodrem	Child of the Universe[30]	Sony Music	"Hunter and the Wolves"[31]	Producer
				"Speed of Life"
				"Control"
2011	JLS	Jukebox[32]	Epic	"Killed By Love"	Writer/ Producer
	Theophilus London	N/A	Warner Bros	"Century Girl ft Dev Hynes"[33]
	Pixie Lott	"Turn It Up Louder "[34]	Mercury	"Doin' Fine (Without You) "[35]
2010	Diana Vickers	Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree	RCA	"The Boy Who Murdered Love"
				"N.U.M.B"
				"Four Leaf Clover"
				"Me and You"
	JLS	Outta This World[36]	Epic	"That's Where I'm Coming From"
	Olly Murs	Olly Murs	Epic	"Ask Me To Stay"	Writer
	The Saturdays	Wordshaker	Fascination/ Polydor	"Denial"	Writer/ Producer
2009	Cheryl Cole	3 Words	Fascination/ Polydor	"Don't Talk About This Love"	Writer
	Lolene	The Electrick Hotel	Island Def Jam	"Beautiful Disaster"	Writer/Producer
	The Saturdays	Chasing Lights	Fascination/ Polydor	"Chasing Lights"
	Westlife	Where We Are	Syco Music	"Reach Out"
	Natalie Bassingthwaighte	1000 Stars		"1000 Stars"
				"Turn The Lights On"
	Glenn Tilbrook	Pandemonium Ensues	Quixotic Records	"Little Ships"	Writer
				"Melancholy Emotion"
2008	Will Young	Let It Go (album)	RCA	"If Love Equals Nothing"	Writer/ Producer
	Leon Jackson	Right Now	Syco	"Don't Call This Love"
	James Morrison	Songs For You, Truths For Me	Polydor	"Save Yourself "	Writer
	JLS	JLS	Epic	"Heal This Heartbreak"
2007	David Jordan	Set The Mood	ZTT	" Fight The World "
				" Only Living Soul "
	The Click Five	Modern Minds And Pastimes	Atlantic Records	"Jenny"
				" Happy Birthday"
				"I'm Getting Over You",
2006	Duncan James	Future Past	Innocent Records	"Sooner or Later"
				" Somebody Still Loves You"
				"I Come Alive"
				"Frequency"
				"Letter to God"
	Beverley Knight	Voice – The Best of Beverley Knight	Parlophone Records	"Not Too Late for Love"	Writer/ Producer
				" Who's Gonna Save Your Soul "
	The Webb Sisters	Daylight Crossing	Universal Records	"Please	Writer
2004	Jesse McCartney	Beautiful Soul	Hollywood Records	Because You Live	Writer/ Producer
	Diana DeGarmo	Blue Skies"	Sony Music	Dreams	Writer
				Emotional
	Lara Fabian	A Wonderful Life		I Am
	Beverley Knight	Affirmation	Parlophone	"Not Too Late for Love"	Writer/ Producer
				"Tea and Sympathy"
	Glenn Tilbrook	Transatlantic Ping Pong	Quixotic Records	Untouchable
				" Ray and Me	Writer
	Lisa Stansfield	"The Moment"	ZTT	If I hadn't Got You
2003	Kylie Minogue	Body Language	Parlophone Records	"After Dark"	Writer/ Producer
	Play	Replay	Columbia Records	"Let's Get to the Love Part"	Writer
	Clay Aiken	Measure of a Man	RCA	"This Is the Night"
				"Run To Me"
				"Invisible"
	S Club 7	Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7	Polydor	"Say Goodbye"
				"Have You Ever"
2002		Sunshine (album)	Parlophone Records	"Have You Ever"
	Will Young	From Now On	Syco Music	"Anything Is Possible"
2001	Victoria Beckham	Victoria Beckham	Virgin Records	"I O U "
	Emma Bunton	A Girl Like Me	Virgin Records	"Spell It O.U.T "
				" Been There, Done That "
	Glenn Tilbrook	Incomplete, Glenn Tilbrook "	Quixotic Records	"Parallel World"
				"Morning"
	Brian Kennedy	Get on With Your Short Life	Sony Music	"Get on With Your Short Life"
1999	Brian Kennedy	Now that I know what I want	19 recordings	"Now that I know what I want "
1996	Cathy Dennis	"Am I the Kinda Girl?"	Polydor	"Run Like A River"

Recording artist

In 1993, Braide recorded his first solo album "Chapter One - Chris Braide" for Polydor Records. The album was produced by Thomas Dolby and Simply Red's Mick Hucknall. In 2014 this album was remastered and released in the UK on Plane Groovy Records^[37]

In 1996, Dave Stewart signed Braide to his Warner Brothers backed label Anxious Records who released a single co-written with Chris Difford "If I Hadn't Got You", and second single "Heavenly Rain", followed a year later by the album, Life in a Minor Key,^[38] which was co-produced by Braide and David A. Stewart at Electric Lady Studios in New York. The record was released in the US on Atlantic Records and in 2013 a vinyl version was released on Plane Groovy Records.^[39][40]

Side projects

Starting in 1993, Braide began a long-running association with Squeeze, singing backing vocals on their album Some Fantastic Place. Braide would continue to work with Squeeze as a session musician on several of their albums, and officially joined the band as their keyboardist for a few months in 1999. He has co-written several tunes with Squeeze lead singer Glenn Tilbrook that have featured on Tilbrook's solo albums; Braide has also collaborated with Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford on other projects.

The band Producers was co-founded by Braide and fellow record producers Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson in 2006. Braide officially left the group in 2008 after relocating to Los Angeles, though he occasionally returned to perform live with them and continued to contribute to their debut album, Made in Basing Street, released in June 2012.

In 2012, Braide completed work with musician Geoff Downes on a project called "Downes Braide Association" (DBA). A full-length album, Pictures of You, was released in November 2012 on Cherry Red Records and a vinyl version on Plane Groovy Records.^[41] Classic Rock magazine gave the album rave reviews describing it as "An absolutely stunning piece of work". Their second release "Suburban Ghosts" is due out November 6, 2015.

Human Feel is an album of electro pop produced and performed by Chris Braide and featuring Theophilus London, and Cathy Dennis under the name of Hello Leo. It was released on limited edition yellow vinyl and download in November 2012 on Plane Groovy Records.

References

1. 2004 PRS Awards ASCAP
2. "Music Week BMG signs songwriter Chris Braide". 19 April 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
3. "Billboard BMG signings". 26 June 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
4. "The Producers co-founder Chris Braide".
5. "Trevor Horn biog".
6. "IMBD Chris Braide".
7. "The Great Gatsby soundtrack credits Chris Braide".
8. "Britney enlists Sia Furler and Chris Braide for new single Perfume".
9. "Beyonce enlists Drake for fifth studio album".
10. "Jennifer Hudson unleashes new song".
11. "Lotus and the glorious return of Christina Aguilera".
12. "Chris Braide has David Guetta's new hit single".
13. "Sia pushes back release date for new studio album".
14. "Chris Braide writes Paloma Faith's new single 30 Minute Love Affair".
15. "Marc Almond announces only British show of 2013".
16. "Yuna debut produced by Pharrell and Chris Braide".
17. "Official site for Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna, signed to Fader Label | YUNA". Yuna Music. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
18. "Yuna Let Love Come Through".
19. "Sia's Great Gatsby contribution".
20. "She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) ft Sia written by Sia Furler, Chris Braide, David Guetta and Giorgio Tuinfort".
21. "Stooshe Credits London with the light on".
22. "yuna believes we can save ourselves in light bright single rescue".
23. "Let Love Come Through produced by Chris Braide".
24. "Dreamchaser credits Chris Braide composer".
25. "Born To Die credits".
26. "Born To Die credits".
27. "Blank Page Produced by Chris Braide".
28. "Fall to Grace Credits".
29. "Yuna debut credits".
30. "child of the universe credits".
31. "child of the universe credits".
32. "jukebox credits".
33. "Theophilus London Century Girl ft. Chris Braide & Dev Hynes".
34. "Pixie Lott Turn it up Louder credits".
35. "Cathy Dennis and Chris Braide write Doin'Fine Without You".
36. "Outta This World Credits".
37. "Chris Braide on perfectsongs.com". Perfectsongs.com. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
38. "iTunes – Music – Life in a Minor Key by Chris Braide". Itunes.apple.com. 4 December 1998. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
39. "Interview with Chris Braide". HitQuarters. 30 August 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
40. "Chapter One by Chris Braide". theorchard. 4 December 1998. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
41. http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=3895

External links

• Official website
• Downes Braide
• Interview, MuuMuse 2010