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Greg Wells is a Grammy award winning Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer^[1] based in Los Angeles. Wells has songs on over 120 million albums sold and streaming numbers in the billions. He has produced and written with Adele, Dua Lipa, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Grace VanderWaal, Rufus Wainwright, Katy Perry, Keith Urban, Twenty One Pilots, Kid Cudi, Deftones, Creeper Lagoon, Mayer Hawthorne, Theophilus London, Weezer, OneRepublic, Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Pharrell Williams, The All-American Rejects, Otep, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach, Miley Cyrus, Celine Dion, Crash Test Dummies,^[2]^[3] Elton John, Jars of Clay, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

A renowned musician, there are feature articles about Wells' drumming in Modern Drummer,^[4] as a pianist in Keyboard, as a synth programmer in Electronic Musician, as a songwriter in American Songwriter and Billboard, and as a producer, mix engineer, and music maker is featured on the cover of Mix with Ryan Tedder in the May 2017 edition.

Early life

Wells grew up in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, the son of a United Church of Canada minister.^[5] At age 11, he developed Perthes' disease and was in a wheelchair unable to walk for two years. Wells attended Adam Scott CVI,^[6] learned to play several instruments,^[4] and joined many musical ensembles in his hometown from the local orchestra to club bands to being a church organist/choir director, as well as DJ-ing dances and running a weekly radio show on Trent University Radio CFFF-FM. He studied classical piano, drums, pipe organ, orchestral percussion and music theory at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and attended the Humber College Jazz Music Program in Toronto on drums, piano, and guitar.^[4]

Career

After moving from Peterborough to Toronto at age 17, Wells worked as a live and studio musician with Canadian music legends Rob McConnell and Kim Mitchell.^[7] He joined the Kim Mitchell Band at age 19. Wells recorded keyboards and backing vocals on Mitchell's, Rockland, toured Canada several times with the band, and won the award for Best Keyboardist at the 1990 Toronto Music Awards as a result of his work with Mitchell (and Wells performed with Mitchell at the awards show on drums).

Wells was awarded a Canada Council arts grant to study in Los Angeles^[4] with Clare Fischer, famed composer and string arranger for Prince. He traveled to Los Angeles at age 21 with the intention of returning to Canada, but Fischer began recommending Wells as a pianist. Wells joined k.d. lang's band soon afterward,^[3] performing with her on the 1993 Grammy Awards where she won Best Pop Female Vocal.

Working with the support of music manager Miles Copeland and music publisher Barbara Vander Linde at Rondor Music, Wells started producing records and writing songs. His first recorded song as a songwriter was with Aerosmith on Nine Lives, which was followed by "The Reason" on Celine Dion's album, Let's Talk About Love. Wells continued to branch out, producing Rufus Wainwright and Otep. Songwriter Kara DioGuardi started collaborating with Wells in 2003 and partnered with him in several pop projects. Wells then produced, mixed and played most of the instruments on Mika's debut album Life In Cartoon Motion.

In 2007, Wells produced both Timbaland's and OneRepublic's version of the song, "Apologize, one of the biggest hit songs in the history of commercial radio. Wells met and began working with Katy Perry and has written and produced on most of her albums.^[8] The two continue to collaborate in 2018 as Wells produced and co-wrote Cozy Little Christmas, which reached #1 on the AC chart in the US.

Wells has designed best selling music software, creating the "El Rey" compressor plugin with Acustica Audio and Studio DMI, and a signature series of plugins with Waves Audio.

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, produced and mixed by Wells, is the biggest selling worldwide album of 2018.

Philanthropy

Wells donates three annual music scholarships to the Humber College Music Program where he attended in Toronto.^[9] Wells also gives away a new drum kit from his Instagram and Twitter account every 3 months^[10] to people around the globe who want drums but don't own any, and partners with Roland Corporation to give away a keyboard every three months.^[11]

Awards

Wells has received three Grammy nominations for his work with Katy Perry, Mika, and won a Grammy for his third nomination in 2019 for The Greatest Showman Soundtrack. Wells received the Pensado Giant Award at the 2017 Pensado Awards for achievements in the field of record-making.^[12] In June 2015, Wells was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater music college, Humber College in Toronto. Wells was nominated as producer of the year at the 2000 Canadian Juno Awards, and is nominated for the same category in 2019.^[13]

Personal life

Wells is married to Swedish songwriter Nina Woodford. He has five children. He works out of his studio in Los Angeles that he built called Rocket Carousel Studio.

Songwriting and production credits

References

1. ^GRAMMY.com
2. ^{{cite book|author=James H. Marsh|title=The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wR_-aSFyvuYC&pg=PA583|year=1999|publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia|isbn=978-0-7710-2099-5|pages=583–}}
3. ^¹{{cite journal|author=Larry LeBlanc|title=Dummies Hand In their Latest Set|work=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21|date=27 February 1999|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=18–21|issn=0006-2510}}
4. ^¹²³⁴[https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/july-2016-greg-wells/ "Features: Greg Wells"]. Modern Drummer, Stephen Belans, July 2016.
5. ^"Musician returns to church that seeded career". Peterborough Examiner, By Jessica Nyznik, March 7, 2016
6. ^[https://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/5200191-peterborough-s-music-pedigree-a-secret-no-more/ "Peterborough’s music pedigree a secret no more"]. My Kawartha, Dec 12, 2014 by Paul Rellinger.
7. ^{{cite journal|author=Larry LeBlanc|title=Dummies Hand In their Latest Set|work=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21|date=27 February 1999|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=18–21la|issn=0006-2510}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Jo Berry|title=Katy Perry: California Gurl|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-MzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|date=31 March 2011|publisher=Orion Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-4091-3362-9|pages=29–}}
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10. ^[https://www.moderndrummer.com/2013/07/producersongwriter-greg-wells-creates-drum-giveaway-program]
11. ^[https://twitter.com/greg_wells/status/946166795810959361]
12. ^[https://www.mixonline.com/the-wire/fourth-annual-pensado-awards-honor-greg-wells-pensado-giant-award-430626]
13. ^{{cite journal|author=Larry LeBlanc|title=Morissette leads Canada's Juno nomination list|work=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45|date=February 12, 2000|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|pages=45–|issn=0006-2510}}
14. ^{{cite book|author=Belmont and Belcourt Biographies|title=Adele: An Unauthorized Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rzbx_Ws1TPAC&pg=PT16|date=March 2012|publisher=Price World Publishing|isbn=978-1-61984-065-2|pages=16–}}
15. ^Billboard.com delivers Music Chart Coverage- Find Digital Music Charts {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520053315/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus.jsp |date=May 20, 2009 }}