Lauren Christy

Lauren Christy’s journey into music began at the age of five when she found a piano buried in the garden at her parents’ house in South London. As a child at the Bush Davies Theatrical School in East Grinstead, Sussex, she first dreamed of a career as a ballet dancer. But the piano drew Lauren’s attention in every dance studio.

“I was driven by the motion of sound, rather than the movement to sound,” she recalls. During that pivotal period, Lauren made her first attempts at songwriting with her close friend at the school, who happened to be the daughter of songwriter Tony Hatch (“Downtown”). It was then she slowly realized songwriting was what she really wanted to do.

By the age of 19, she was recording her own songs, soon signing her first publishing deal with EMI, followed by a record deal at Mercury Records at age 21.  Relocating to Los Angeles, she started work on her first album with producer and Carpenters guitarist Tony Peluso. That debut album, Lauren Christy, garnered her a nomination for Best New Artist at the 1994 American Music Awards. Lauren’s single, “The Color of the Night,” was a Top 10 AC hit and landed her a nomination for Best Song in a Motion Picture at the Golden Globes.

As Lauren started a family, she reinvented herself again as the co-creator of hit production team The Matrix. Alongside creative partners Graham Edwards and Scott Spock, the trio wrote and produced the worldwide phenomenon Avril Lavigne’s debut album “Let Go,” which included three international number-one hits- “Complicated,” “Sk8er Boi” and “I’m With You” – selling 25 million copies. For “Complicated,” the Matrix trio won the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for International Hit of The Year as well as receiving seven GRAMMY nominations: Song of the Year in 2003 for “Complicated” and again in 2004 for “I’m With You” along with Producer of the Year. (Lauren is one of only seven women ever to be nominated.) Christy is also a two-time Juno award winner and a BMI Songwriter of the Year Award recipient.

The Matrix has sold more than 30 million records and has worked with artists including Avril Lavigne, Jason Mraz (“The Remedy”), Shakira (“Don’t Bother”), Liz Phair (“Why Can’t I”), Korn (“Coming Undone” “Twisted Transister”), David Bowie (“New Killer Star”), Christina Aguilera (“This Year”), Ricky Martin (“This Is Good”), Britney Spears (“Shadow”), Hillary Duff (“So Yesterday”), Ferras (“Hollywood’s Not America”), Busted (“Three AM”), Tokio Hotel (“Human Connect to Human”), Rihanna (“Cheers”), Grayson Chance (“Hold On To The Night”) among many others.

Entering her fourth decade as a music professional, this one-time dancer can be found six days a week raising kids and making music. Working closely with Donna Caseine and Golnar Khosrowshahi at Reservoir, Lauren’s recent independent work includes Enrique Iglesias’s worldwide number one hit “Tonight I’m Loving You,” as well as 

songs recorded by a dazzling and diverse list of artists including Chris Medina, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Derulo, Headley, Bebe Rexha, Me Myself and I, Dua Lipa, Iggy Azalea, Avril Lavigne, The Struts, KORN and Jenn Bostic. 

Lauren recently started her own record label, Youth Be Served Records (YBS Records). The first signing was artist Jenn Bostic, whose Take My Hand EP entered the iTunes Christian chart at #11. The label’s second signing, Australian artist Tassia Zappia, saw the debut single “You Don’t Want Me” earn more than half a million streams shortly after release. And the latest signing, Rosse, just signed a publishing deal with Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis Songs and is about to drop her first release.

Lauren is currently enjoying working with her daughters Georgia Christy Edwards and Sophie Skye Edwards on their band SkyeChrist, and they have recently released their first two singles, “Sending Light (for Lucas)” and “Black Lake.”

“It’s such a blessing to get to make records for a living and help people achieve their vision,” she says.  “I want to keep doing this until I die. Just bury me with my piano!”