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Louis John Biancaniello is an American songwriter and record producer. [1]
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Louis John Biancaniello is an American songwriter and record producer. [1]
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Biancaniello's skills were developed while working alongside producer Narada Michael Walden with whom he produced hits for Shanice I Love Your Smile , Whitney Houston I'm Every Woman from the Grammy winning album The Bodyguard and All the Man That I Need , Tevin Campbell Tell Me What You Want Me to Do , Elton John "True Love", Lisa Fischer "How Can I Ease The Pain", Al Jarreau the Grammy winning "Heaven and Earth", and various other tracks from artist such as Mariah Carey, Edyta Górniak, The O'Jay's, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Taylor Dayne, and Al Green.[ citation needed ]
On 6 December 2007, Biancaniello was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song for his songwriting credits on "When I See U" and Best Contemporary R&B Album of the year for his production credits on "Fantasia".[ citation needed ] In April 2008 "Take a Bow" and "Yesterday" were released on Leona Lewis's debut album titled "Spirit".[ citation needed ]
Biancaniello collaborates frequently with Sam Watters.[ citation needed ] The pair have written and produced hits for Jessica Simpson "I Wanna Love You Forever", for Alexia "You need love", "I Believe", performed by Fantasia Barrino, "I'm Outta Love" and "One Day in Your Life" performed by Anastacia.[ citation needed ] Recently[ when? ] the two have had chart success with Fantasia's No. 1 Billboard R&B hit "When I See You", Natasha Bedingfield's "Love Like This", Jordin Sparks "Battlefield" and Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted".[ citation needed ] Recent[ when? ] releases also include tracks on new Leona Lewis and Westlife's "Back Home".[ citation needed ] They are also known for their work with Keri Hilson, Celine Dion, Marc Anthony, Lara Fabian, Edyta Górniak, 98 Degrees, Color Me Badd, Elliott Yamin and Tamyra Gray.[ citation needed ] In 2010, Biancaniello and Watters met the artist Matthew Koma.[ citation needed ] Biancaniello and Watters began working with Matthew Koma, and eventually signed him to their production company, London Police.[ citation needed ] Matthew Koma has enjoyed early success with guest vocals on "Spectrum" by Zedd featuring Matthew Koma, and "Years" by Alesso featuring Matthew Koma, both of which reached No. 1 on Beatport.[ citation needed ] Koma opened for LMFAO on their international tour.[ citation needed ]
In 2011, Biancaniello and Watters signed their 2nd artist, Marley Munroe.[ citation needed ] In January 2012, they signed her to Epic Records through their London Police imprint.[ citation needed ] As of 2016, her only release has been a promotional single. [2]
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In addition to his solo projects, Biancaniello has joined forces with producers/songwriters Sam Watters, Rico Love, and Wayne Wilkins to form the writing and production team The Runaways. Together they wrote and produced "Love Like This" by Natasha Bedingfield featuring Sean Kingston on Natasha Bedingfield's Pockets Full of Sunshine .[ citation needed ] In 2008, they released Keri Hilson's first single, "Energy" off of her debut album In A Perfect World... .[ citation needed ] The Runaways produced and wrote the 2009 hit "Battlefield" for Jordin Sparks.[ citation needed ] Biancaniello co-produced Lemar's second single, "Weight of the World", from his fourth album The Reason with Jim Jonsin.[ citation needed ] Biancaniello and Watters produced four and wrote and produced three songs including the title track on Kelly Clarkson's 2009 All I Ever Wanted album.[ citation needed ]
In 2009 Biancaniello and Watters wrote and produced the first single "Forever Is Over" for UK girl group The Saturdays, with James Bourne.[ citation needed ] They also wrote and produced two songs on Alexandra Burke's debut album Overcome , including the title track, and "Rain on Me" on Cheryl Cole's debut, and wrote and produced two songs and produced a third on Westlife's "Where We Are" album.[ citation needed ] The year also saw the pair co-write and produce nine songs for Universal Republic's new artist Kate Earl.
In 2010 Louis co-wrote and produced Jordin Sparks hit "Battlefield".[ citation needed ] In 2012–13 Louis put his energy into developing the artists Mathew Koma who got signed to Interscope and Marley Munroe who got signed to Epic.[ citation needed ] In 2014 Biancaniello co-wrote and produced the 5 Seconds of Summer hit "Amnesia".[ citation needed ] Other notable releases in 2014 include Jessie J's "Keep Us Together" and Anastacia's first 2 singles "Stupid Little Things" and "Staring at the Sun".[ citation needed ]
Danielle Anne Brisebois is an American producer, singer-songwriter and former child actress. She is best known for her role as Stephanie Mills on the Norman Lear-produced sitcoms All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place, as well as playing Molly in the original Broadway production of the musical Annie.
Edyta Anna Górniak is a Polish pop singer with a career spanning 3 decades. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range of approximately four octaves. Górniak started as a musical theatre actress in 1990. She performed in the most popular musical in Polish history, the Tony Award-nominated Metro. Some of its shows took place on Broadway. Górniak was Poland's first representative in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with the song "To nie ja". She placed second which still remains the country's best result at the contest. This started her decades-long career as a pop singer in her native country and internationally. She is the recipient of the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis for her contributions to the arts.
Samuel Joshua Watters is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and record executive. Watters was a member of the multi-platinum selling 1990s R&B group Color Me Badd and co-authored many of their hits including "I Adore Mi Amor", and "All 4 Love". Watters has also written and produced songs for Grammy-winning and nominated artists such as American Idol winners Fantasia, Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks, and other superstars such as Céline Dion, Whitney Houston, Leona Lewis, and Anastacia. Watters is a member of the production/songwriting team The Runaways including fellow hitmakers Rico Love, Wayne Wilkins, Ryan Tedder, and Louis Biancaniello.
Michael Rizzo, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer from New York City, active since the early 1990s. He is well known for working with various artists such as Jennifer Green and Sun, all of whom scored hits on both Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay charts.
Jordin Sparks-Thomas is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2007 after winning the sixth season of American Idol at age 17, becoming the youngest winner in the series' history. Her self-titled debut studio album, released later that year, was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over two million copies worldwide. The album spawned the Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles "Tattoo" and "No Air"; the latter, a collaboration with Chris Brown, is currently the third highest-selling single by any American Idol contestant, selling over three million digital copies in the United States. The song earned Sparks her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
VH1 debuted the first annual VH1 Divas concert in 1998. VH1 Divas Live was created to support the channel's Save The Music Foundation and subsequent concerts in the series have also benefited that foundation. The VH1 Divas concerts aired annually from 1998 to 2004. After a five-year hiatus, the series returned in 2009 with a younger-skewed revamp. In 2010 the concert saluted the troops and in 2011 it celebrated soul music, doubling the previous year's ratings. After a dance music-focused 2012 edition aired live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on December 16, 2012, the show took another hiatus before being revived on December 5, 2016, at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York with a holiday theme and achieved its highest ratings in over a decade.
"I'm Outta Love" is the debut single of American singer Anastacia. Written by Anastacia, Sam Watters, and Louis Biancaniello and produced by the latter two, it was released on February 29, 2000, as the lead single from her debut album, Not That Kind (2000). The song became a major hit in Europe and Australia, reaching number one in Wallonia, Australia and New Zealand; it was the most successful song of 2000 in the latter two regions. It additionally reached the top five in several others, including France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
N.B. is the second studio album released by British singer Natasha Bedingfield. It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2007 through Phonogenic Records. In the United Kingdom it produced two top ten hits, "I Wanna Have Your Babies" and "Soulmate". In January 2008, the album was released in the United States and Canada under the name Pocketful of Sunshine with new packaging and an alternative track listing featuring only six of the original songs. The US version's title song became a top-five hit whilst the lead single, "Love Like This" with Sean Kingston, became a top-twenty hit. US critics said that the album felt inorganic and awkwardly assembled.
"Lara Fabian" is the fourth studio album and the first English album by the Belgian recording artist Lara Fabian. It was first released on 29 November 1999 in France and later it was released worldwide in 2000. The album features the hit singles "I Will Love Again", "I Am Who I Am" and "Love by Grace".
"Love Like This" is a song performed by British singer Natasha Bedingfield. It was included as the lead single of Bedingfield's second North American album, Pocketful of Sunshine, and features vocals from Jamaican-American reggae singer Sean Kingston. The song was written by Bedingfield, Kingston, Louis Biancaniello, Rico Love, Ryan Tedder, Sam Watters, and Wayne Wilkins, while production was handled by Biancaniello, Love, Tedder, and Watters under their production group, The Runawayz. Its lyrics discuss finding love with a person who has "been there all your life and has always loved you, but you've never noticed it until now". The official remix features vocals from rapper Lil Wayne and a slightly different beat, produced by Jim Jonsin.
Espionage is a New York-based Norwegian songwriting and music production team consisting of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund. Their breakthrough came in 2006 as co-writers of Beyoncé's worldwide smash "Irreplaceable", which was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks and the best selling single in the US in 2007. They are probably best known as the producers and cowriters behind several of Train's major hits after 2009, including "Drive By" and their comeback single "Hey, Soul Sister", which is among the 20 highest selling singles of all time in the US. Espionage has received numerous BMI Awards.
Wayne Wilkins is a pianist, record producer, songwriter, record engineer, and record mixer. Wilkins has produced and written for artists such as Rick Astley, Natasha Bedingfield, Beyoncé, Cheryl Cole, and Jordin Sparks ("Battlefield").
"Battlefield" is a song by the American singer Jordin Sparks, taken from her sophomore studio album of the same name. It was written by Louis Biancaniello, Ryan Tedder, Sam Watters and Wayne Wilkins, while production of the song was helmed by Tedder and The Runaways. "Battlefield" was released digitally in the United States on May 8, 2009, as the album's lead single. "Battlefield" is a mid-tempo ballad which draws from the genres of pop, R&B, pop rock and soft rock. The song's lyrics revolve around "a tumultuous relationship where neither side wants to compromise." The song's lyrical theme received comparisons to Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" (1983), and its production was compared to Benatar's "We Belong" (1984).
Battlefield is the second studio album by American singer Jordin Sparks, first released on July 17, 2009 through Jive Records and 19 Recordings. The album debuted at number 7 in the United States, number 11 in the UK, number 34 in Australia and top 20 in many territories.
Days Difference was a pop/rock band that formed in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2004. The quartet consists of Jeremy Smith, Jonathan Smith (drums), Micah Ricks and Jeremiah Ricks. The group released their debut album Numbers in 2007. Their self-titled album Days Difference was released on October 6, 2009 and marks the group's first major release on the Universal Motown Records label. In 2011, the band was signed to Universal Republic Records for the release of their next album. The band officially announced in September 2013 that they had been broken up since 2012.
"Come tu mi vuoi" is the first single release from the seventh studio album of Italian singer Alexia, Gli occhi grandi della luna, released on 1 June 2004. The track was originally written in English, though the Italian version was released as the lead track on the physical CD release. Sam Watters, the man behind some of Anastacia's biggest hits wrote and produced it along with Louis Biancaniello. The duo stated that Alexia was the "Italian version of Anastacia.
Gli Occhi Grandi Della Luna is the seventh studio album by Alexia released in Italy on 5 July 2004. This would be the fourth album in which Alexia had a hand in production. The lead single from the album "Come tu mi vuoi" was written and produced by Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello who had written for Anastacia, with the original English version being a bonus track. The second song to be lifted as a Radio promotional release was "Una donna sola". Both tracks would feature on Alexia's Italian greatest hits CD Da grande along with "Funky al cuore" and "Quello che sento".
Matthew Bair, known professionally as Matthew Koma, is an American singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Matthew Koma wrote numerous songs, including "Spectrum" and Grammy Award-winner "Clarity", both performed by Zedd.
"Staring at the Sun" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Anastacia from her sixth studio album, Resurrection (2014). It was written by Louis Biancaniello, Marley Munroe and Sam Watters and produced by the Watters and Biancaniello. The song was digitally released by BMG Rights as the second single from the album on August 25, 2014.
"I Surrender" is a power ballad written by Louis Biancaniello and Sam Watters, and recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion from her seventh English-language studio album, A New Day Has Come (2002). A lushly orchestrated love song that has been covered numerously, it is about an enamoured individual who would surrender everything just to be with their lover.
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