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Biography
BLP sources|date=May 2010 Lauren Christy is an English people|English singer-songwriter and music producer .
Early life and education
Christy was born in London , England . She studied at the Bush Davies Ballet School as a child, before she decided to become a musician|musical artist .cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p23457/biography|pure_url=yes|title=Biography: Lauren Christy|last=Seida|first=Linda|publisher= Allmusic |accessdate=21 May 2010
Career
Music career
Christy was a member of several bands. Her first band, Pink Ash, consisted of six male members and herself. Her stage name was Susie Reptile . After frantically writing and looking for artistic inspiration|inspiration from her Keyboard instrument|keyboards , Christy achieved both a publishing deal with EMI and a major label record contract with PolyGram|Polygram Records .
She released her self-titled debut album on February 19, 1993, including the singles "You Read Me Wrong" and "Steep," which targeted the Adult contemporary music|adult contemporary market. Her second, Breed , was released on July 22, 1997 and featured a substantially different style than Lauren Christy , being more of a pop rock album.
In 1994, Christy had a minor Adult contemporary music|AC hit with "The Color of the Night", the theme song to the Bruce Willis film Color of Night . After the song gained airplay, her eponymous debut album was re-released with "The Color of the Night" included as a bonus track.
Three years later, she contributed the song "Breed" to the Batman & Robin (film)|Batman and Robin soundtrack, which was also released as the first single for the Breed album. Though the song's video received heavy rotation on MTV , the single and album failed to chart. The second single, "Magazine" also failed to make an impression.
Though Breed is Christy's most recent full length album as of|2007|lc=on (reportedly plans for a third album were shelved with the demise of Mercury Records Citation needed|date=June 2007), she has continued to contribute to film and television soundtracks, particularly the song "Walk This Earth Alone" on the Great Expectations (1998 film)|Great Expectations soundtrack. The track "Anywhere the Wind Blows" appears in the film Seven Girlfriends (as does Christy herself, in a bit part) and "Satellite" can be found on the closing credits to William Shatner 's Free Enterprise (film)|Free Enterprise , though neither song has seen a commercial release outside of the movie appearances. "I Want What I Want" from the Breed album made it into the movie Wild Things , but failed to make it onto the movie's soundtrack.
The Matrix: Writing and producing career
Since the late 1990s, Christy has primarily worked with her husband; songwriter and music producer Graham Edwards and musician , composer and remixer Scott Spock in pop music Songwriter|writing and Record producer|production team called The Matrix (record production team)|The Matrix . In this capacity, she has written or co-written and produced songs for Tokio Hotel , Christina Aguilera , Backstreet Boys , Hilary Duff , Ronan Keating , Korn , Avril Lavigne , Lillix , Ricky Martin , AshleyParker Angel , Kelly Clarkson , Mcfly , Jason Mraz , Liz Phair , Britney Spears , Skye Sweetnam , Shakira , Miranda Cosgrove , Enrique Iglesias , Katy Perry and Adam Longlands.
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