Grant studied piano and
composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the prestigious
Piano prize and ultimately achieved a B.A. with Hons. He has performed as
soloist with symphony orchestras in London and Glasgow.
Despite his experience in
the classical world, he was drawn to a career on the mainstream music
business. After a spell writing and
performing in various bands, he wrote commercials and station idents for Radio
Clyde, before going on to produce the debut album for singer-songwriter Julia
Fordham (Circa/Virgin), which gained an international profile and a Number 1
record in Japan, and an award for Mitchell in the Tokyo Music Festival for best
arrangement.
He went on to produce and
arrange a further 2 gold albums for Fordham, working with some of the worlds
most respected musicians and receiving critical acclaim.
He has performed
internationally on the Tonight Show
(U.S), The World Music
Awards (for HRH Queen Elizabeth),
TOTP, Good Morning America, and on countless
national TV and radio broadcasts.
Teaming up with award
winning songwriter/producer Simon
Climie, he played, arranged and programmed 5 Top 20 records for Louise and Eternal (1st Avenue/ EMI),
and tracks for Eric Clapton, Lamont Dozier, MN8, Jenifer Rush, and
Michelle
Gayle.
He was then approached by
legendary producer Trevor Horn to
collaborate on co-production projects and subsequently joined the Sarm organisation. During this time he
has worked with Seal, Lulu, Diane
Warren, Wet Wet Wet, Elton John, Caron Wheeler (Soul 2 Soul), Joan Armatrading,
Garly Barlow, Mark Owen (Take That), Beverly Knight, Sonique, Enrique Inglesias,
Richard Derbyshire, Nu Colours, Kavanagh, Peter Andre, Robin Gibb, Jack Raddics,
Curtis Steigers, John Secada, and also produced and arranged the gold debut
album Earthbound for outstanding UK singer-songwriter Conner Reeves, including the huge radio
hits My Fathers Son, and Earthbound.
Grant and long standing
writing/production partner Graham Dickson formed G2 Music in 1999, based at their state
of the art studio in West London. Signing to
EMI Music in 2001, they have since co- written songs for Sonique (million selling debut album),
Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) and Bob The Builder (five songs) amongst
others. Grant and Graham were responsible for the Bob The Builder album which was not
only a success worldwide, but also included the two UK
number one singles – Can We Fix it? (best selling single of 2001) and Mambo No. 5. They went on to produce and
arrange the Bob The Builder album,
(released worldwide) co-writing five of the songs.
Grant & Graham have
been working a wide range of projects, including writing and developing R&B
/Pop band Frixion and virtual pop
act The Glitter Moneys. He has also
worked in various TV/Film projects for Channel 5, The Disney Channel and BBC Worldwide (Dick n
Dom). They recently completed
recording and mixing a new Joan Armatrading album and have written the theme
music to the Little Princess for
Illuminated Films.
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Howard Price
