Steve Booker (producer)

Steve Booker
Genres	Pop, rock, Breakbeat, Soul
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter
Years active	1980s-present
Associated acts	John Newman, Jessie J, Alex Clare, Duffy, Lisa Marie Presley, Rebecca Ferguson
Website	stevebooker.com

Steve Booker is an Ivor Novello award-winning British music producer and songwriter. His production & writing credits include: John Newman's "Love Me Again" for which Booker is nominated for the 2014 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically & Duffy's "Mercy" for which Booker won the Ivor Novello Award for most performed work. Prior to becoming a producer Booker was a singer-songwriter who released two solo albums – "Dreamworld" (1990) and the 1996 mini-album "A Far Cry From Here".

It was while Booker was in Nashville recording his second solo album "A Far Cry From Here" that he "fell in love with co-writing" and decided to stay and make a living from professional songwriting. He ended up spending around seven years in the USA where he, according to Booker, "[existed] by writing country music and working in Los Angeles, but more top-lining than actual proper songwriting." During this time his cuts included "Too Far From Texas" for Stevie Nicks' Trouble in Shangri-La album and "What R U Waiting 4", which was recorded by Tiffani Wood and Lindsay Lohan.

Booker collaborated with Duffy, producing and co-writing four songs on her debut album "Rockferry"; including producing and co-writing the international No.1 "Mercy", "Stepping Stone", "Rain on Your Parade" and "Breaking My Own Heart".

In 2009 Booker won the ASCAP Writers Award for Mercy and the 2009 Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.

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