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Grades | |
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| Birth name | Daniel Traynor |
| Origin | London, England |
| Years active | 2013–present |
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| Website | soundcloud |
Grades (born Daniel Traynor) is an English producer, songwriter and DJ based in London. His music encompasses elements of R&B, Hip Hop, 2step, House and Electronic.
As an artist/DJ, Grades’ first original track "Freedom" was released in April 2014 and was featured by Annie Mac in her Free Music Mondays download series. He followed the release of "Freedom" with a remix of Lana Del Rey’s "West Coast" which reached number 3 at Hype Machine. Grades’ second single "Owe It To Yourself" was premiered in June by Mixmag who compared him to artists such as Bondax and Kaytranada. Grades went on to remix Hot Natured, Ellie Goulding, Labrinth, Becky Hill, Lianne La Havas & many more.
Later in the year, Grades co-wrote & produced Bastille’s single "Torn Apart" which featured on the "Vs. (Other People’s Heartache pt. III)" project. His third single "Crocodile Tears", featuring vocals from songwriter Caroline Ailin, was premiered by Vice’s music channel Noisey.
Grades has received radio play from Zane Lowe, Pete Tong, MistaJam, Nick Grimshaw, Huw Stephens and Annie Mac at BBC Radio 1, and had his own KISS FM radio show from 2016-17.
Within 2016, he began working with NAO on her debut studio album For All We Know (including "Bad Blood", "Fool To Love" & "Girlfriend") produced and featured on Sinead Harnett's "If You Let Me", and co-wrote a song ft. Mr Hudson on DJ Snake's number 1 Billboard album Encore. He produced Julian Peretta's "I Cry" which was #3 most played song on French radio during 2016.
Grades went on to work on tracks for H.E.R, Tinie Tempah, Tinashe, Aanysa, Snakehips as well as Dua Lipa & Khalid on their multi-platinum albums.
Grades was nominated for a Grammy in 2017 for his work on the Khalid album American Teen, alongside producer Scribz Riley.
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album | Credits | Written with | Produced with |
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| "Screw You" (featuring Wretch 32) | 2012 | Cheryl | A Million Lights | Co-writer | Meghan Thomaston, Kingsley Brown, Jermaine Scott | - |
| "Good Together" | 2014 | Tom Aspaul | Revelation | Co-writer/Producer | Tom Aspaul | - |
| "Wolves (Intro)" | - | |||||
| "Revelation" | - | |||||
| "Those Girls" | 2015 | Karen Harding | Non-album single | Karen Harding, Tom Aspaul | - | |
| "Do It Well" (featuring Tom Aspaul) | XYConstant | Non-album single | Alfie Coleman, Tom Aspaul | XYConstant, Mark Ralph | ||
| "Working Girl" | Little Boots | Working Girl | Victoria Hesketh, Tom Aspaul | - | ||
| "Inhale Exhale" | NAO | For All We Know | Neo Jessica Joshua | NAO | ||
| "Bad Blood" | ||||||
| "Fool to Love" | 2016 | |||||
| "Talk" | Tiffany | I Just Wanna Dance EP | Caroline Ailin, Nicola Roberts | - | ||
| "Girlfriend" | NAO | For All We Know | Producer | - | NAO, ST!NT | |
| "Adore You" (featuring Abhi//Dijon) | Additional producer | - | NAO, LOXE | |||
| "Happy" | Producer | - | NAO, Christian Gregory, Miles James | |||
| "DYWM" | - | NAO | ||||
| "We Don't Give A" | Co-writer/Producer | Neo Jessica Joshua, John Calvert | John Calvert | |||
| "Give Me A Little" | Producer | - | NAO, LOXE | |||
| "If You Let Me" (featuring GRADES) | Sinéad Harnett | Sinéad Harnett EP | Featured artist/Co-writer/Producer | Sinéad Harnett | - | |
| "I Cry" | Julian Perretta | Karma | Co-writer/Producer | Julian Perretta | - | |
| "Wait For You" | Fantasia | The Definition Of... | Sasha Keable, Scott Hoffman, Vanya Taylor | - | ||
| "Here Comes the Night" (featuring Mr Hudson) | DJ Snake | Encore | William Grigachine, Benjamin Hudson McIldowie | DJ Snake | ||
| "It Was My Party Last Night" | GIRLI | Non-album single | Milly Toomey | - | ||
| "Never Complaining" | Tom Aspaul | Left EP | Co-writer | Tom Aspaul | - | |
| "Burn Break Crash" (with Snakehips) | Aanysa | Non-album single | Co-writer/Producer | Caroline Ailin, Tom Aspaul | Snakehips | |
| "Text from Your Ex" (featuring Tinashe) | 2017 | Tinie Tempah | Youth | Patrick Okugwu, Ina Wroldsen, Timucin Aluo | Jax Jones | |
| "Lies In The Dark" | Tove Lo | Fifty Shades Darker OST | Tove Nilsson, Mike "Scribz" Riley | Jason Gill, Scribz Riley | ||
| "Cover Up" | Taeyeon | My Voice | Caroline Ailin, Realmeee | - | ||
| "No Goodbyes" | Dua Lipa | Dua Lipa | Co-writer/Co-producer | Dua Lipa, Lindy Robbins, Ilsey Juber | KOZ | |
| "Still Miss You" | Sinead Harnett | Chapter One | Producer | - | - | |
| "Lights On" | H.E.R. | H.E.R. | Co-writer/Producer | Gabriella Wilson, Mike "Scribz" Riley, Talay Riley | H.E.R., Scribz Riley | |
| "Winter" | Khalid | American Teen | Producer | - | Scribz Riley | |
| "Landslide" (featuring DJ Khaled) | Toby Randall | One EP | Co-writer/Producer | Helen Culver, John Mitchell | Carmen Reece, Anais Aida | |
| "One Shot Two Shot" | BoA | One Shot Two shot Mini album | Caroline Ailin | |||
| "New Religion" | 2018 | Maad | TBA | Maad Moiselle, Kate Stewart, Chiara Hunter, Ashley Milton, Daniel Goudie | - | |
| "Bad Vibe" | M.O Ft. Lotto Boyz & Mr Eazi | Scott Hoffman, Oladayo Olatunji, Oluwatosin Ajibade | Lorna Blackwood | |||
| "Body" | Sinead Harnett | Sinead Harnett | - | |||
| "Brake Lights" (featuring Nao) | Cosha | R.I.P. Bonzai | Co-writer | Cassia "Cosha" O'Reilly, Alexander Crossan, Francis White, Neo Jessica Joshua | - | |
| "U Better" | Co-writer/Producer | Cassia "Cosha" O'Reilly | Mura Masa | |||
| "This Life" | ||||||
| "Another Lifetime" | NAO | Saturn | Neo Jessica Joshua, Ajay Bhattacharya | NAO, ST!NT | ||
| "Name On It" (featuring Burna Boy) | Four of Diamonds | TBA | Tre Jean-Marie, Oladay Olatunji, Damini Ogulu | Tre Jean-Marie, Dyo | ||
| "Karma" | Years & Years | Palo Santo | Olly Alexander, Sarah Hudson, Clarence Coffee Jr. | Clarence Coffee Jr. | ||
| "Time in a Tree" | Raleigh Ritchie | Andy | Producer | - | - | |
| "Make It Out Alive" (featuring SiR) | NAO | Saturn | Co-writer/Producer | Neo Jessica Joshua, Clarence Coffee Jr., Sir Darryl Farris | NAO | |
| "Drive and Disconnect" | Neo Jessica Joshua, Ajay Battacharya, Jeff Gitelman, Sarah Aarons | NAO, ST!NT | ||||
| "Curiosity" | Neo Jessica Joshua, Alexandra Yatchenko, Henry Allen, Yvette "Naala" Riby-Williams | NAO, LOXE, King Henry | ||||
| "Wondering" | M.O Ft. Chip | Non-album single | Ali Ahmed, Jahmaal Fyfe, Oladayo Olatunji | - | ||
| "If You Ever" | NAO | Saturn | Vocal producer | - | NAO, Mura Masa | |
| "When Saturn Returns (Interlude)" | Producer | - | NAO | |||
| "Saturn" (featuring Kwabs) | Co-writer/Producer | Neo Jessica Joshua, Rowan Perkins, Daniel Caesar | NAO, LOXE | |||
| "Gabriel" | Neo Jessica Joshua, Joseph Price, James Luke Wood | NAO, Royce Wood Junior | ||||
| "Orbit" | Neo Jessica Joshua, James Ryan Ho | NAO | ||||
| "Love Supreme" | Neo Jessica Joshua, James Luke Wood, Rowan Perkins | NAO, LOXE | ||||
| "Don't Change" | Neo Jessica Joshua, Ajay Battacharya | NAO, ST!NT | ||||
| "Yellow of the Sun" | Neo Jessica Joshua, Joel Little | NAO, Joel Little | ||||
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