Justin Gray

Justin Gray

Bio

Justin Gray is a Canadian born, Los Angeles based songwriter and record producer, who over the past 10 years has sold more than 20 million records World-wide.

Justin's extraordinary credits include British soul sensation Joss Stone (Virgin), Spice Girl Emma Bunton (Universal), Disney Channel Superstar Mitchel Musso, Multi-Platinum UK artist Alex Parks (Polydor), and Tyler James (Island Def Jam), as well as artists Bret Ryan (GrayRose/Universal), Ali Slaight (Universal), Sugar Jones (Universal), Ashley MacIsaac (Universal), JD Fortune of INXS (SonyBMG), The Three Graces (Decca/Universal), Sara Paxton (Walt Disney), Elodie Frege (Mercury), Tiffany Evans (Columbia), Jacksoul (SonyBMG), Wide Mouth Mason (Warner Bros.), Econoline Crush (EMI), Snow (EMI), Wave (Warner Music), and Esthero (Sony/550) just to name a few. As a re-mixer, Justin has worked with artists Shakira (Columbia), Leahy (EMI), and Kinnie Star (Universal).

Justin co-owns GrayRose Records Canada (distributed through Universal), and GrayRose Entertainment U.S. with manager/partner Steven Rosen. Current artists signed to the GrayRose roster include Montreal's M.T.L., UK's Joey, and Cartana from Spain. Currently, GrayRose is in negotiations with several new artists for 2010 releases.

Gray has won a Genie Award (Canada's equivalent to the Oscar) for his song "One Thing To Say" which won Best Song. He also was nominated for a Juno Award (Canada's version of the Grammy's) alongside Daniel Lanois for 'Producer of the Year' for his work on Sugar Jones' single "Days Like That." "Days Like That" was the fastest rising debut song by a debut artist in the history of Canadian Radio. In 2000, Justin won the Canadian Radio Music Award for "Song of the Year" for his writing and production on 3Deep's "Into You", which was the most played song across Canada during the previous year, and became one of the fastest rising songs to receive the honor of "Canadian Radio Gold." Gray was selected by Global TV to be the Judge on their new competition show "Popstars" for the first two seasons, creating the hit groups Sugar Jones and Velvet Empire. Both projects records were written and produced by Gray.

Justin's songs have appeared in countless television shows including Beverly Hills 90210, Las Vegas, Burn Notice, Hannah Montana, America's Funniest Home Videos, MTV's The Real World: Hollywood, The Clubhouse, Degrassi "The Next Generation", Popstars and Canadian Idol. His music has also been featured in films such as Soul Plane, Bounce, and Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang. Additionally Gray has composed music for major corporate companies including Michelob, Budweiser, AT&T, LG, and KFC.

As a songwriter, Justin has worked with some of the industry's most sought after creative minds including; Phil Thornalley (Natalie Imbruglia/Bryan Adams), Blair Mackichan (Lily Allen, Wil Young), Curtis Richardson (J.Lo / Rihanna), Jamie Houston (Miley Cyrus/High School Musical), Victoria Horn (Brandy/Dirty Vegas), Klaus Derendorf (Santana/Josh Groban), and Andrew Fromm (Mark Anthony/ Backstreet Boys) to name a few.

Justin conceptualized and began the Creative Collective in Canada; a 5 day intense songwriting think-tank bringing songwriters and producers together from all over the world, in the spirit of the famous Brill Building. In it's 5 years, songs born at the Creative Collective have sold millions of copies world-wide, and have found homes on projects all over the world with artists including Joss Stone, Rihanna, Lenou Mouskouri, Alex Parks, Elodie Frege, and Nick Lachey.

2010 has started off with production/writing projects for artist Drew Seeley (High School Musical), several film and TV placements, and a newly signed publishing deal with Razor & Tie Music Publishing.