Bonnie McKee
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Bonnie Leigh McKee (born January 20, 1984 in Vacaville , California ) is an American singer and songwriter .
biography
McKee grew up in a musical family in California and learned to play the piano. She later moved to Seattle , where she sang in the Seattle Girl's Choir . At the age of twelve she made her first recordings and began writing her own songs. Difficult youth and expulsion from high school followed before she found her way to music successfully. She signed the Reprise label . Her song Somebody made it on the soundtrack for the film Total Crush on Tad Hamilton in 2004 and hit the adult pop charts. In the same year her debut album Trouble was released , which went to the flop.
After that it became quiet again for Bonnie McKee; it wasn't until 2010 that it came back into the spotlight. As a songwriter for Katy Perry , she was on the team with Dr. Luke and Max Martin were involved in three of the pop singer's number one hits: California Gurls , Teenage Dream and Last Friday Night (TGIF) . They also wrote Dynamite for Taio Cruz and Hold It Against Me for Britney Spears , which also topped the charts. The successes continued in the following years. She wrote many other chart hits for prominent musicians, also together with other songwriters. Roar , again for Katy Perry, was the eighth number one hit with her involvement in 2013.
In 2013 she recorded her own single again. With American Girl , a pop song in the style of Katy Perry and Kesha , she even made it into the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2013 .
Songwriting
Participation in:
- Taio Cruz : Dynamite
- Rita Ora : How We Do (Party)
- Katy Perry : Last Friday Night (TGIF), Part of Me, Roar, Teenage Dream, California Gurls, Wide Awake
- Britney Spears : Hold It Against Me, Ooh La La
- Kesha : C'mon
Discography
Albums
- 2004: Trouble
EPs
- 2003: Bonnie McKee
- 2015: Bombastic
Singles
- 2004: Trouble
- 2004: Somebody
- 2013: American Girl
- 2015: Bombastic
- 2016: Wasted Youth
- 2016: I Want It All
- 2016: Easy
- 2016: Stars in Your Heart
- 2017: Thorns
- 2018: Sleepwalker
- 2018: Mad Mad World
Guest Posts
- 2009: Boy Hangover (Lester Lewis feat. Bonnie McKee)
- 2012: Thunder ( Rusko feat. Bonnie McKee)
- 2014: Afroki ( Steve Aoki & Afrojack feat. Bonnie McKee)
- 2019: Lonely For You ( Armin van Buuren feat. Bonnie McKee)
swell
- ↑ Chart sources: DE US
- ↑ Watch Bonnie McKee's "American Girl," a Celeb-Filled Bonanza , Phoenix New Times, July 30, 2013
Web links
- Song credits (hitparade.ch)
- Bonnie McKee at Allmusic (English)
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SURNAME | McKee, Bonnie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McKee, Bonnie Leigh (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pop singer and songwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th January 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vacaville , California , USA |