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Michael Lord | |
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Origin | Los Angeles, California, US |
Occupation(s) | composer, producer, songwriter, musician |
Instrument(s) | piano, guitar, bass, drums |
Labels | AO Recordings |
Website | http://michaellord.com/ |
Michael Lord is an American songwriter, composer, producer and Indie recording artist. His 2004 release Sway featured the song Smile which was chosen by the Apple iTunes Music Store as their Single of The Week. [1] Other songs from the album including "Bleed" and "Forgiven" were used in television shows such as Alias [2] and What About Brian [3] . He followed Sway with a mini EP called The String Sessions reinterpreting the songs from Sway acoustically with a string quartet. Lord wrote all string arrangements which were then performed by The Section Quartet.
In 2005 Lord worked with producer Desmond Child to arrange and record songs for American Idol's Season 4 Showstoppers Album [4] resulting in the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Certified Gold Record.
He has producied tracks for Honey County, Quincy Coleman, Graham Colton, Courtney Jaye, Dilana, Paulina Gretzky and Chelsea Williams and written songs for NBC's comedy My Name Is Earl .
Currently Lord is composing, producing and arranging music for television, film and media. He recently composed the themes and underscore for NBC's game show The Wall . He has been awarded multiple ASCAP Screen Awards for his music in The Wall. [5]
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