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Nick Southwood is a British songwriter, musician and producer best known for his contribution to "Lost Stars", which is featured in the 2014 film Begin Again soundtrack. [1] He is also known for his songwriting and production work with The Overtones. [2]
"Lost Stars" is an original song performed by Maroon 5 singer-songwriter Adam Levine [3] for the musical romantic comedy-drama film Begin Again . It was released on 30 June 2014 through ALXNDR (a rising musical group), 222 Records, Polydor, and Interscope in the United States. "Lost Stars" was written by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood. [4] [5] The song was recorded at the Electric Lady Studios in New York City during the summer of 2012. The Adam Levine main version is produced by Gregg Alexander, Nick Lashley and Nick Southwood with vocals produced and arranged by Danielle Brisebois.
Southwood arranged and produced The Overtones' first album Good Ol' Fashioned Love . He co-wrote the single "Gambling Man" with the band. [6] Southwood also has production and engineering credits on The Overtone's third album Saturday Night at the Movies . [7]
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi-instrumentalist Sam Farrar. Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.
New Radicals were an American alternative rock band active from 1997 to 1999, and 2021. The band is centered on frontman Gregg Alexander, who wrote and produced all of their songs. The band's only other permanent member was keyboardist and percussionist Danielle Brisebois.
Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has since recorded fifteen albums. He was the subject of a 2010 documentary called Love Shines.
Adam Noah Levine is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara's Flowers, of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist. After the commercial failure of their only album, The Fourth World, the group was reformed in 2001 as Maroon 5 – with James Valentine replacing Levine as guitarist. In 2002, they released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US; since then, they have released five more albums: It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012), V (2014), and Red Pill Blues (2017). As part of Maroon 5, Levine has received three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and a World Music Award.
Gregg Alexander is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known as the frontman of the New Radicals, who had an international hit with "You Get What You Give" in late 1998. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he recorded two solo albums, Michigan Rain and Intoxifornication. He dissolved the New Radicals in 1999 to focus on production and songwriting work, winning a Grammy Award for the song "The Game of Love" in 2003. He later co-penned songs for the film Begin Again, including "Lost Stars", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Portable Life is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Danielle Brisebois. Originally scheduled for October 26, 1999, the album's release was delayed until September 2008, when RCA Records released the album as a digital download on iTunes and Amazon MP3. Promotional CD copies of Portable Life and the single "I've Had It" were pressed in 1999 and are now difficult to obtain.
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.
Arrive All Over You is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Danielle Brisebois, released on May 10, 1994, by Epic Records. It includes the singles "What If God Fell from the Sky", "Gimme Little Sign" and "I Don't Wanna Talk About Love". It was co-written and produced by Gregg Alexander, who also sang co-lead on "Promise Tomorrow Tonight". Brisebois and Alexander would later become the nucleus of the short-lived rock group New Radicals, which formed three years after the release of the album.
Ultimate High is the debut album of Irish-born singer Carly Smithson, released under her maiden name Carly Hennessy in 2001 by MCA Records. It failed to find an audience despite getting good reviews and MCA Records spending over $2 million on the production and promotion of the album, and became a textbook example for the economics of today's music industry.
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.
Samantha Stollenwerck is an American singer-songwriter. She has released four full-length albums and a four-track EP.
Tanner Patrick Howe is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas. In August 2011, Patrick began uploading videos to his YouTube channel, "TannerPatrick", which now has over 1,000,000 subscribers and over 110,000,000 views. In 2012, he was selected by Nigel Lythgoe Productions to star in E!'s "Opening Act", where he shared the stage with country music super star, Brad Paisley. On April 22, 2014, he released the music video for his single, "Satellites" and his debut album, "The Waiting Home". He describes the album as "intentionally diverse with a rock/pop influence". In the summer of 2014, he began uploading his music to Vine, where he now has over 700,000 followers and 150,000,000 loops. Patrick plays acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, and other instruments.
Begin Again is a 2013 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by John Carney and starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. Knightley plays a singer-songwriter who is discovered by a struggling record label executive (Ruffalo) and collaborates with him to produce an album recorded in public locations all over New York City.
Matthew Bair, known professionally by his stage name 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.
V is the fifth studio album by American band Maroon 5. The album was released on August 29, 2014, through 222 and Interscope Records. V was Maroon 5's first album to be released through Interscope after the band's previous label, A&M Octone Records, transferred them along with most of its artists to Interscope. The album also saw the return of keyboardist/rhythm guitarist/backing vocalist Jesse Carmichael, after his absence from recording, touring and promoting, Overexposed in 2012. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and produced with three hit singles, "Maps", "Animals", and "Sugar", peaking at numbers 6, 3 and 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, respectively. It was reissued on May 18, 2015, to include the single "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a MotherFucker".
222 Records is an American record label founded in 2012 by artist Adam Levine, frontman of American band Maroon 5. In 2014, Maroon 5 was signed to the label. 222 Records is distributed by Interscope Records.
"Lost Stars" is an original song performed by Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine for the romantic comedy-drama film Begin Again. It was released on June 23, 2014, through ALXNDR, 222 Records, Polydor, and Interscope in the United States.
"It Was Always You" is a song by American band Maroon 5. It was released through 222 and Interscope Records on July 29, 2014, as the first and only promotional single from their fifth studio album V (2014).
Stevie McCrorie is a Scottish singer-songwriter. He is best known as a firefighter who won the fourth series of the BBC television singing competition The Voice UK in 2015, where he auditioned with Kodaline's "All I Want", with all four coaches turning their chairs for him. His debut single, "Lost Stars", was released the day following his win, peaking at number one on the Scottish Singles Chart and number six on the UK Singles Chart. After winning The Voice, he performed at T in The Park in 2015.
Come Fly With Me is the tenth studio album released by British-Australian singer Peter Andre. The album was released on 16 October 2015, via East West Records. The album is Andre's second swing album following the release of Big Night in 2014, however, unlike Big Night, the album consists mostly of covers of Rat Pack classics, as well as three original songs and a swing version of his former hit "Mysterious Girl".
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