Pete Kirtley
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| Birth name | Peter Edward Kirtley |
| Born | 14 April 1972 |
| Origin | Cuckfield, Sussex, England |
| Genres | Pop, dance-pop, pop rock |
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Songwriter Producer |
Pete Kirtley (born 14 April 1972) is an English, Ivor Novello Award-winning and Brit Awards-nominatedsongwriter, and record producer. He has produced over 150 records worldwide with sales exceeding 12 million, including seven number-one hit singles worldwide, tracks on seven number-one albums, eight UK top-ten hits and thirty-five top-forty hits in Europe. His records have generated a total of more than 20 million hits on YouTube. He has written and/or produced for artists such as the Sugababes, Hear'Say, Armin Van Buuren, Tiësto, Kim Wilde, Mutya Buena and Stephen Gately. His production collaborations include Ryan Tedder, Guy Chambers and Stargate.
Peter Edward Kirtley was born in Cuckfield, Sussex, England, but moved to Surrey at a young age. The younger of two children, his father, Al Kirtley, was a semi-professional musician who had at one time been a member of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band and later of Trendsetters Limited, and under contract to Parlophone Records. At the age of 11 he joined a band with Matt Goss, Luke Goss and Craig Logan who later formed the British band Bros. Kirtley was a keen amateur actor while at school, but at the age of 16 chose music as a career and became a professional drummer. For four years he was a member of The Blue, a band managed by Bob Herbert and his son Chris, the original managers of the Spice Girls. The Blue's only single, "Don't Leave Me Standing in the Pouring Rain", was released in 1992, but failed to enter the chart.
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