GREG WELLS

'Greg Wells' (born September 21, 1968) is a Canadian musician, record producer and songwriter.

Contents

Selected discography

Biography

Career overview

Early years

Today

External links

Selected discography

★ '' by Timbaland

★ ''Life in Cartoon Motion'' by Mika

★ ''Team Sleep'' by Team Sleep

★ ''House of Secrets'' by Otep

★ ''Beautiful Soul'' by Jesse McCartney

★ ''Deftones'' by Deftones

★ ''Sometimes a Circle'' by Louise Goffin

★ ''Poses'' by Rufus Wainwright

Biography

Career overview

Stewart Copeland of The Police dubbed Wells the "studio Swiss Army knife", a reference to his variety of talents as a record producer, musician, mix engineer, and songwriter as heard in Mika's #1 worldwide hit "Grace Kelly", Timbaland's latest release '', Otep's death metal "House of Secrets", and Rufus Wainwright's rendition of "Across the Universe".
Greg has songs on over fifty million album sales and has produced Louise Goffin, Mika, Otep, The Deftones, Pink, Timbaland featuring OneRepublic, Rufus Wainwright, Natasha Bedingfield, Pussycat Dolls, Team Sleep, Jewel, Belinda Peregrin, Michelle Branch, Jesse McCartney, Sarah Bettens, The Veronicas, Hilary Duff, Alex Parks, and Paris Hilton.

Early years

The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Greg hails from Peterborough, Ontario. A child prodigy on several instruments, he played piano, drums, guitar and bass with local rock groups, jazz big bands and choral ensembles. His mentors were his first piano teacher, Marjorie Engels, and Fredrick Pritchard[1] (advanced piano studies). He attended two years at the Humber College Jazz Studies Program outside of Toronto. In his teens, Greg joined Juno Award winner Kim Mitchell's band and contributed to Mitchell's multi-platinum "Rockland" record.
Wells traveled to Los Angeles for studies with Prince's string arranger and renowned jazz composer Claire Fischer, . Early work in the mid 1990's includes being k.d. lang's multi-instrumentalist, Hammond B3 for Elton John's "Duets" CD, drums for Ozzy Osbourne, jazz piano for producer/Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegün, and bass guitar and drums for Jars of Clay on their platinum record "Much Afraid" as well as co-penning some of its songs.
Manager Miles Copeland began hiring Wells to produce acts for IRS Records and invited Greg to a songwriting event at Copeland's castle in France. At the castle, Wells wrote with John Parish (PJ Harvey), Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks, Irish singer/songwriter Paul Brady, The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, and Carole King. King, Mark Hudson, and Wells penned "The Reason", recorded by Celine Dion on one of the best selling albums of all time, Let's Talk About Love, selling in excess of 31 million copies. Later that same year, Wells met and fell in love with King's daughter Louise Goffin. They subsequently married and have two children. The partnership is also a musical one. Greg and Louise often collaborate, as on Louise's "Sometimes A Circle" CD for Dreamworks and the theme song for the hit TV show The Gilmore Girls.

Today

As of March 2007, Wells is producing, mixing, and writing for artists as diverse as new Universal Music pop sensation Mika, the band OneRepublic, singer Natasha Bedingfield, and death metal outfit Otep. Greg produced a song on Timbaland's solo release '', and the track "No Work, All Play" for Hilary Duff's album ''Dignity''.
He works out of his private studio Rocket Carousel Studio in Los Angeles, often collaborating with Matt Chamberlain on drums, A-list songwriter Kara DioGuardi, and string arranger Paul Buckmaster. He is managed by Steve Moir and Alissa Razansky at Moir Entertainment in Santa Monica.

External links

★ Greg Wells Website

★ Greg Wells Myspace