Johnny McDaid

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Johnny McDaid
McDaid performing with Snow Patrol at Rock am Ring 2018
McDaid performing with Snow Patrol at Rock am Ring 2018
Background information
Birth nameJohn McDaid
Born (1976-07-24) 24 July 1976 (age 47)
Derry, Northern Ireland
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • record producer
Instrument(s)
  • Guitar
  • piano
  • vocals
Years active1994–present
Labels

John McDaid (born 24 July 1976)[1] is a singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Northern Ireland.[2] He is a member of the bands Snow Patrol and Vega4, and has written songs with other artists including Ed Sheeran, P!nk, and Robbie Williams.

Early life

One of six children of John and Pauline McDaid,[1] McDaid attended St Brigid's Primary School,[3] Carnhill,[1] and St Columb's College.[1]

Career

McDaid was the singer and songwriter of the band Vega4, whose second album You and Others was produced by Jacknife Lee. Its first single, "Life Is Beautiful", was featured on the US Contemporary Radio Charts Top 40 for 12 weeks in 2007,[citation needed] and was the song used for the theatrical trailer of My Sister's Keeper.[citation needed] In 2009, McDaid was the first person to sign to Snow Patrol's publishing company, Polar Patrol Publishing.[4]

McDaid went on to play guitar and piano and sing backing vocals in the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. While on the road with Snow Patrol, McDaid was developing his unique style of writing and working with artists in a variety of genres, scoring a hit with Example's “Say Nothing” which went to number 2 in the UK singles chart in 2012.[5] Collaborations with artists as diverse as Robbie Williams' “Love My Life”,[6] Biffy Clyro “Howl”,[7] Rudimental “Never Let You Go”,[8] “Bloodstream”,[9] Birdy “Wild Horses”,[9] and Kodaline “Love Will Set You Free”.[10]

McDaid's songs have been featured on many television shows, including One Tree Hill, The Hills, Pushing Daisies, and Defying Gravity,[citation needed] and have been used for many HBO network season campaigns,[citation needed] among others. His songs have also been used on various advertising campaigns including: Land Rover, Jeep, and RTÉ,[citation needed] and in feature films, including Into the Blue, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Sex Drive.[citation needed] McDaid produced the "Snow Patrol Remix" of U2's "Unknown Caller" in January 2010.

McDaid also has a studio, Fieldwork Music, in North London where he writes, produces, and mixes with and for various artists and songwriters. He has used Fieldwork as a project name for song releases, including the single "This Is Not The End", which featured in a trailer for the film Edge of Tomorrow.[11]

In 2012, Example released his album The Evolution of Man. The debut single "Say Nothing", co-written with McDaid was released in September 2012, debuting at number two on the UK Official Charts.[12] The song was received positively overall and became the best selling song from the album. Digital Spy rated it four stars, calling it "an electronic anthem that's ready to take over the airwaves" and commenting that it "maintains a sense of depth, proving that despite his questionable celebrity jibes his talent still comes out on top."[13]

Collaborations

Known to work with styles of music from dance and pop to acoustic singer songwriters, McDaid has written and produced tracks for Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Carina Round, Ingrid Michaelson, Gary Go, Example, Birdy, Kodaline, Rudimental, Biffy Clyro and Rosi Golan. He has also worked with Iain Archer, Declan O'Rourke, Tonio K, and Freelance Hellraiser. He wrote and produced the title track for the movie House of Fools, which was directed by Academy Award-nominated director Eva Isaksen, and has written and produced records for Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, EMI, PIAS Recordings, Mushroom Records, and Capitol Records.

McDaid worked with Paul Van Dyk, resulting in "Time of Our Lives", the number one club chart single from the Grammy Award-nominated album Reflections. He also wrote and performed the number one club chart hit "Home" for Paul van Dyk. The single was awarded Best Track at the 2009 Trance Awards. McDaid has performed with Paul van Dyk at selected shows.

In January 2013, McDaid and Gary Lightbody performed at the "Sons & Daughters" concert in Derry, McDaid's hometown, to mark the opening of the city's UK City of Culture year.[14] In early 2013, McDaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran to work with him on his second album. Sheeran and McDaid are close friends and later moved to Los Angeles together to continue working on Sheeran's second record.[15] In November 2013, Sheeran posted a picture of himself and McDaid on Instagram stating that they had been making the record together for two years and that it was now complete.[16] Sheeran's X album was released in June 2014 with McDaid having co-written seven of the songs, including "Photograph", which went on to go platinum and win a BMI Pop Award, and hit song "Bloodstream", which was nominated for Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 2016 Ivor Novello Awards. For his work on the album, McDaid was nominated for a Grammy Award and a BRIT Award, with the record going on to win the 2015 BRIT Award for Album of the Year. In 2016 he co-wrote "Love My Life" with Robbie Williams & Gary Go from Robbie Williams "The Heavy Entertainment Show" album.

In 2017, McDaid had his first hit with his co-write of Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You' (co-written with Ed Sheeran and Steve Mac). The song went to number 1 in the UK and US and remained number 1 in the UK for four weeks.[17] The song had 240,000 downloads in the first week of its release,[18] with 12.71 million streams on Spotify in the first 48 hours [19] He also developed a lot of Ed's third album.

In 2017, McDaid co-wrote the single "What About Us" by Pink. [20] On October 6, 2017, country music duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill released the single “Rest Of Our Life”, written by McDaid, Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, and Steve Mac.[21]

Personal life

McDaid began dating actress Courteney Cox in late 2013.[22] The couple announced their engagement on 26 June 2014.[23] In 2019, Cox announced that the couple broke off their engagement but are still in a relationship.

McDaid lives in London and divides his time between the UK and the US, where Cox lives.[24]

McDaid has a tattoo on his left arm reading Nuair is gá dom filleadh abhaile, is tú mo réalt eolais ("When I need to get home you're my guiding light"), an Irish translation of the song "Guiding Light" by fellow Northern Irish musician Foy Vance. Ed Sheeran and Vance both have the same tattoo, as does McDaid's younger sister Maev. The song was written for McDaid's late father, John McDaid, Sr., who died in July 2011. "Guiding Light" was recorded with Sheeran featured on vocals, and Vance on vocals and piano.[25][26]

Songwriting and production credits

Year Artist Song Written with Produced with Album
2008 Schiller "Everything" with Helen Boulding Christopher von Deylen, Helen Boulding N/A Sehnsucht
2009 Paul van Dyk "Home" feat. Johnny McDaid Paul van Dyk Paul van Dyk Volume
2010 "We Are One" feat. Johnny McDaid Paul van Dyk Paul van Dyk Non-album single
2011 Lena "I Like You" Rosi Golan N/A Good News
Firefox AK "Running on My Own" Andrea Kellerman, Rasmus Kellerman, Harmony Boucher N/A Colour the Trees
2012 Paul van Dyk "Everywhere" feat. Johnny McDaid Paul van Dyk N/A Evolution
Karin Park "Bending Albert's Law" Karin Park Highwire Poetry
Example "Say Nothing" Elliot Gleave, Dragan Roganovic N/A The Evolution of Man
Lena "Don't Panic" Lena Meyer-Landrut, James Flannigan N/A Stardust
2013 Bo Bruce "Speed the Fire" Catherine B.-Bruce, Thomas Ashby, Gita Langley, James Glannigan N/A Before I Sleep
"Lightkeeper" Catherine B.-Bruce N/A
"The Fall" Catherine B.-Bruce, Ingrid Michaelson N/A
"How We're Made" Catherine B.-Bruce
Ciaran Gribbin "My Killer My King" Ciaran Gribbin Non-album single
2014 Ed Sheeran "All of the Stars" Ed Sheeran The Fault in Our Stars OST
"Nina" Ed Sheeran N/A X
"Photograph" Ed Sheeran, Martin Harrington, Thomas Leonard N/A
"Bloodstream" solo or with Rudimental Ed Sheeran, Gary Lightbody, Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Leon Rolle N/A
"Tenerife Sea" Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance N/A
"Afire Love" Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance
"Take It Back" Ed Sheeran N/A
"English Rose" Ed Sheeran
2015 Kodaline "Love Will Set You Free" Stephen Garrigan, Mark Prendergast, Vincent May N/A Coming Up for Air
Rudimental "Never Let You Go" feat. Foy Vance Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Leon Rolle, Foy Vance N/A We the Generation
2016 Birdy "Wild Horses" Jasmine van den Bogaerde N/A Beautiful Lies
Biffy Clyro "Howl" Simon Neil, Gary Lightbody N/A Ellipsis
Robbie Williams "Love My Life" Robbie Williams, Gary Go Gary Go, Jonny Coffer The Heavy Entertainment Show
Aquilo "Sorry" Thomas Higham, Benjamin Fletcher Aquilo Silhouettes
2017 Ed Sheeran "Shape of You" Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, Kandi Burruss, Tameka Cottle, Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs N/A ÷ (Divide)
Rag'n'Bone Man "The Fire" Rory Graham, Jonny Coffer, Mark Crew, Daniel Priddy Jonny Coffer Human
Ed Sheeran "Eraser" Ed Sheeran ÷ (Divide)
"Galway Girl" Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Foy Vance, Damian McKee, Eamon Murray, Liam Bradley, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham N/A
"Hearts Don't Break Around Here" Ed Sheeran N/A
"What Do I Know?" Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance Ed Sheeran
"Supermarket Flowers" Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco Benny Blanco
"Barcelona" Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Foy Vance, Benny Blanco N/A
"Nancy Mulligan" Ed Sheeran]], Murray Cummings, Amy Wadge, Foy Vance, Benny Blanco N/A
Zara Larsson "Don't Let Me Be Yours" Zara Larsson, Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac N/A So Good
James Blunt "Make Me Better" James Blunt, Ed Sheeran}} N/A The Afterlove
Pink "What About Us" Alecia Moore, Steve Mac N/A Beautiful Trauma
Anderson East "All on My Mind" Anderson East, Aaron Raitiere, Ed Sheeran N/A Encore
DJ Snake "A Different Way" feat. Lauv William Grigahcine, Ilsey Juber, Lindy Robbins, Ed Sheeran, Ryan Tedder, Steve Mac N/A Non-album single
Jamie Lawson "Can't See Straight" Jamie Lawson, Ed Sheeran N/A Happy Accidents
"The Last Spark" Jamie Lawson, Gary Go N/A
Tim McGraw "The Rest of Our Life" with Faith Hill Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Steve Mac N/A The Rest of Our Life
Weezer "Get Right" Rivers Cuomo, Josh Alexander, Jonny Coffer N/A Pacific Daydream
Robbie Williams "Speaking Tongues" Robbie Williams, Ellis Taylor Show N Prove Under the Radar Volume 2
2018 Keith Urban "Parallel Line" Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Julia Michaels, Benny Blanco, Christopher Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, William Champion, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen Keith Urban, Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco Graffiti U
Kodaline "Follow Your Fire" Stephen Garrigan, Steve Mac N/A Politics of Living
The Shires "Stay the Night" John Newman, James Newman, Ed Sheeran N/A Accidentally on Purpose
Shawn Mendes "Fallin' All in You" Shawn Mendes, Scott Friedman, Teddy Geiger, Ed Sheeran, Frederik Gibson N/A Shawn Mendes
Gareth Emery "Call to Arms" feat. Evan Henzi Gareth Emery, Gary Lightbody, Evan Henzi N/A Non-album single
Kodaline "Head Held High" Stephen Garrigan, Liam O'Donnell, Jonny Coffer N/A Politics of Living
Paul van Dyk "Music Rescues Me" feat. Plumb Paul van Dyk N/A Music Rescues Me
Kodaline "Hide and Seek" Stephen Garrigan, Corey Sanders, William Reynolds Will Reynolds, Max Marlow, Graham Archer Politics of Living
"Born Again" Stephen Garrigan, Wayne Hector, Steve Mac N/A
"Hell Froze Over" Stephen Garrigan, Max Marlow Will Reynolds, Max Marlow, Graham Archer
Paul van Dyk "Reprise" Paul van Dyk N/A Music Rescues Me
2019 Beoga "Matthew's Daughter" Damian McKee, Eamon Murray, Liam Bradley, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham, Ed Sheeran N/A Carousel
Kelly Clarkson "Broken & Beautiful" Alecia Moore, Steve Mac, Christopher Comstock N/A UglyDolls OST
John Newman "Forever's Not Long Enough" John Newman, Foy Vance, Jonny Coffer N/A Out of the Blue EP
Illenium "Blood" with Foy Vance Nicholas Miller, Damian McKee, Eamon Murray, Liam Bradley, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham, Amy Wadge, Foy Vance, Jonny Coffer N/A Ascend
John Newman "Mama" John Newman, James Newman, Foy Vance, Jonny Coffer N/A Out of the Blue EP
2020 Alicia Keys "Underdog" Alicia Keys, Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Foy Vance, Jonny Coffer Alicia Keys Alicia
Beoga "Aurora II" Damian McKee, Eamon Murray, Liam Bradley, Niamh Dunne, Sean Og Graham, Jonny Coffer N/A Carousel
Example "Erin" N/A Example Some Nights Last for Days
Alicia Keys "Authors of Forever" Alicia Keys, Jonny Coffer Alicia Keys, Jonny Coffer, Mark Ronson Alicia
2021 Ross Copperman "Electricity" Ross Copperman, , Ed Sheeran N/A Somewhere There's a Light On EP
"Therapy" Ross Copperman, Ed Sheeran N/A
Ed Sheeran "Bad Habits" Ed Sheeran, Frederik Gibson Ed Sheeran, Fred again, Parisi = (Equals)
BTS "Permission to Dance" Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac N/A Non-album single
Ed Sheeran "Visiting Hours" Ed Sheeran, Amy Wadge, Michael Pollack, Anthony Clemons Jr., Kim Lang Smith, Scott Carter Ed Sheeran, Parisi = (Equals)
Maisie Peters "Hollow" Maisie Peters, , Ed Sheeran, Joseph Rubel N/A You Signed Up for This
Ed Sheeran "Shivers" Ed Sheeran, Kai Lavelle, Steve Mac N/A = (Equals)
"Tides" Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance Ed Sheeran, Foy Vance, Joe Rubel
"Overpass Graffiti" Ed Sheeran, Frederik Gibson Ed Sheeran, Fred again
"The Joker and the Queen" Ed Sheeran, Frederik Gibson, Samuel Romans Ed Sheeran, Fred again, Romans
"Collide" Ed Sheeran, Ben Kweller, Frederik Gibson Ed Sheeran, Fred again, Benji Gibson
"Love in Slow Motion" Ed Sheeran, Natalie Hemby Ed Sheeran, Fred again, Joe Rubel
"Sandman" Ed Sheeran Ed Sheeran
"Be Right Now" Ed Sheeran, Frederik Gibson Ed Sheeran, Fred again, Parisi

References

  1. ^ a b c d Devlin, Patricia (4 August 2014). "Courteney Cox is a 'wee pet' - Johnny McDaid's mum gives seal of approval after engaged stars visit Derry". Belfast Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015. Devoted dad John, who passed away in 2011.... [M]um-of-six Pauline told how singer Ed Sheeran joined the family and Courteney for a party in their home last weekend to mark Johnny's 38th birthday ... [on] July 24
  2. ^ "Johnny's on Patrol after taking Berlin". Derry Journal. Northern Ireland. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  3. ^ Hutcheon, Erin (2 June 2015). "Picture Special: St Brigid's P.S. celebrate 40 years". Derry Journal. Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Who are we?". Polar Patrol Publishing. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Example - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  6. ^ "Robbie Williams - Love My Life". Discogs.
  7. ^ "Ellipsis - Biffy Clyro - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Rudimental - Never Let You Go Lyrics - Musixmatch". musiXmatch.
  9. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran & Rudimental - Bloodstream". Discogs.
  10. ^ "Love Will Set You Free - Kodaline - Song Info - AllMusic". AllMusic.
  11. ^ "Snow Patrol – Facebook". 14 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  12. ^ "Example UK Official Chart Entries". Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  13. ^ "Example: 'Say Nothing' – Single review". Digital Spy. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  14. ^ "Sons And Daughters". Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  15. ^ "Ed Sheeran Answers Questions". 1051 The Buzz. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  16. ^ "Ed Sheeran & Johnny McDaid". Instagram. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Ed Sheeran Debated Giving Rihanna His New Song 'Shape of You'". billboard.com. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
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  19. ^ "Ed Sheeran storms to global Spotify No.1 AND No.2 with 23m streams in 48 hours - Music Business Worldwide". musicbusinessworldwide.com. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  20. ^ "Pink's 'What About Us' Songwriter Explains the 'Alchemy' Behind Her Bold New Single".
  21. ^ "Faith Hill & Tim McGraw Announce First Duet Album 'The Rest of Our Life'".
  22. ^ "Courtney Cox dating Snow Patrol rocker Johnny McDaid as couple look loved-up on Christmas date". The Mirror. UK. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  23. ^ Cox, Courteney [@CourteneyCox] (27 June 2014). "I'm engaged to him!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2 July 2014 – via Twitter.
  24. ^ "Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid joins Institute of Irish Studies". The Irish World. 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017.
  25. ^ "Interview With Foy Vance". Groundsounds. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  26. ^ "Interview With Foy Vance & Ed Sheeran". The Independent. UK. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.

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External links

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