American songwriter and record producer
Adonis Shropshire
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Undated headshot of Shropshire
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Birth name
| Taurian Adonis Shropshire
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Also known as
| Adonis
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Born
| Atlanta
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Georgia
, U.S.
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Origin
| Chattanooga, Tennessee
, U.S.
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Genres
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Occupations
| - Record producer
- songwriter
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Years active
| 2001?present
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Musical artist
Taurian Adonis Shropshire
[1]
is an American songwriter and record producer.
Beginning his career in 2001, Shropshire has written or produced numerous hit records for various artists, including
Mariah Carey
's "
I Stay In Love
",
Usher
's "
My Boo
",
P. Diddy
's "
I Need a Girl (Part One)
", "
I Need a Girl (Part Two)
",
Chris Brown
's "
Say Goodbye
",
Ciara
's "
And I
",
Marques Houston
's "
Circle
",
Day26
's "
Since You've Been Gone
",
Enrique Iglesias
's "
Push
",
Ginuwine
's "
Last Chance
",
Beyonce
's "
Summertime
", and
Lee Taemin
's "
Play Me
". He received his first formal credit on "Walking On Sunshine" for
Jennifer Lopez
in 2001. He is affiliated with
Sean Combs
'
Bad Boy Records
and has won three
Grammy Awards
among seventeen nominations.
[2]
History
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Adonis was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
, where he attended the Chattanooga Phoenix III High School for the Performing Arts.
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While in middle school, he met
Usher Raymond
IV (the two would later form a group before Raymond's move to Atlanta). While frequenting a local studio he learned the art of creating songs, music production, using audio equipment, recording, as well as structuring and writing lyric melody. Currently Adonis is the CEO, and Founder of Beatstreet, Inc.
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While having a friendship with
R&B
trio
Blaque
, he would travel to various recording sessions with them. Natina Reed and her former
Blaque
group member Shamari Fears, noticed a particular talent he had for producing vocals and allowed him to contribute in the studio. These sessions were his first "real" recording sessions, which consisted of helping vocal produce three songs for the group's debut album.
In 1997, he moved back to Atlanta to pursue his dream of breaking into the music industry. While in a local singing group he was introduced to
Rowdy Records
exec Kirk Woods (The Woodland Entertainment Group) who would later become his manager.
[5]
When the group disbanded in 2000, he started writing songs for other recording artists. This prompted his manager to set up a meeting with famed producer and CEO of Bad Boy Worldwide Sean "Diddy" Combs. While in New York Adonis worked on the album of pop icon Jennifer Lopez's "J.LO". This was Adonis' first songwriting credit. Soon after Diddy signed Adonis to his publishing venture with
EMI
as part of his "Hit Men Squad." Immediately Adonis began to craft songs for
Faith Evans
,
Carl Thomas
,
112
,
Cheri Dennis
,
Beyonce
,
Usher
,
B2K
, and
Ciara
His affiliation with Bad Boy led to him working with Noontime (which had a co-management deal with Bad Boy). That work resulted in him meeting
Bryan-Michael Cox
. Adonis's relationship with Cox soon had him producing and writing for
Chris Brown
,
Nicole Scherzinger
,
Mariah Carey
and
Gwen Stefani
. Although prior to working with Cox, Adonis had written and produced an extensive body of work (including Hot 100 #1 hits such as Usher's "
My Boo
") in addition to P. Diddy's "
I Need a Girl (Part One)
" and "
I Need a Girl (Part Two)
" and two
Grammy Awards
(for work on albums by Carey and Usher),
Chris Brown
's "Say Goodbye" marked his first Hot R&B Chart #1 hit with Cox.
In 2014 Adonis began working with
Kristinia DeBarge
on her third studio album.
[6]
On January 5, 2015, he and DeBarge started releasing new music exclusively through YouTube. She entitled the project "New Music Mondays".
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Selected production and writing credits
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Grammy Awards and nominations
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The
Grammy Awards
are awarded annually by the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
of the United States. Adonis has received 3 awards from 17 nominations.
References
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- ^
How To Make A Hit
. Allhiphop.com, Accessed January 21, 2008.
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"Adonis Shropshire | Artist"
.
Grammy.com
.
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"Chattanooga Phoenix III High School - Find Alumni, Yearbooks and Reunion Plans"
.
Classmates.com
.
- ^
AllMusic Discography
, AllMusic, Accessed January 21, 2008
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GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER ADONIS SHROPSHIRE JOINS FORCES WITH ASCAP AND AMERICA SCORES ATLANTA
Archived
February 27, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine
Accessed January 21, 2008
- ^
"Twitter / kristinia: In the studio with my boy"
. Twitter.com
. Retrieved
April 26,
2014
.
- ^
Vazquez, Michelle (September 24, 2009).
"Kristinia DeBarge"
. YouTube
. Retrieved
July 11,
2015
.
External links
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