Greg Wells

Greg Wells
Greg Wells
Background information
Origin	Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Rock, pop, classical, jazz
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter, musician, mix engineer
Instruments	Piano, synthesizer, drums, guitar, bass, Hammond B3
Website	GregWells.net

Greg Wells is a Canadian musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has songs on over 85 million units sold. He has produced and written with Katy Perry, Grace VanderWaal, Keith Urban, Adele, Mayer Hawthorne, Dua Lipa, Holychild, Ella Eyre, Rufus Wainwright, Twenty One Pilots, OneRepublic, Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Pharrell Williams, Theophilus London, Weezer, Kid Cudi, The All American Rejects, Otep, Deftones, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach, Celine Dion, Crash Test Dummies, Elton John, Jars of Clay, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Wells grew up in the rural town of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. At age 11, he developed Perthes' disease and was unable to walk for two years. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, the multi-instrumentalist joined many musical ensembles in his hometown from the local orchestra to club bands to being a church organist/choir director, as well as DJ-ing dances and running a weekly radio show on Trent University Radio CFFF-FM. He studied classical piano, drums, pipe organ, orchestral percussion and music theory at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and attended the Humber College Jazz Music Program in Toronto on drums, piano, and guitar. After moving to Toronto at age 17, he soon became engrossed in the city's music scene as a live and studio musician working with some of Canada's top jazz, classical, and pop musical talent like Rob McConnell and Kim Mitchell. He joined the Kim Mitchell Band at age 19. He recorded keyboards and backing vocals on Mitchell's double platinum album Rockland, toured Canada several times with the band, and won the award for best keyboardist at the Toronto Music Awards as a result of his work with Mitchell.

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