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in the US, Braide relocated to Los Angeles to produce and write for artists including Sia,

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, Halsey, Wrabel,

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, Yuna and

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. Braide is a frequent collaborator of Sia; together they have written for her own projects, movie soundtracks and for several other artists. Notable songs they have written over the years include "Kill and Run" for ''

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'' film and soundtrack, "Helium" for the 2017 '' Fifty Shades Darker'' film and soundtrack, "Pretty Isn't Perfect" and "

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" for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, "God Made You Beautiful" for the Beyoncé film ''

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" for Britney Spears, "Blank Page" for Christina Aguilera, and " She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)" for

featuring Sia. Most recently, their song "Helium" was remixed for MAC cosmetics a collaboration for the cosmetic company's AIDS Fund by David Guetta and Afrojack, and a new single, " Flames", was released by David Guetta. In 2022, the song "

" was released to radio as an official single in the United States after gaining popularity through commercials and video-sharing app

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. It became No.1 on the Adult Pop Airplay Chart 6 years after its release and is the first record in a quarter of a century to be in the charts for over 100 weeks. He has a duo group with

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and others), called Downes Braide Association (DBA), since 2012. Braide has won an

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and been nominated for a

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. He is published by

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worldwide and Magical Thinking BMI.

Select songwriting and production discography

Recording artist

In 1993, Braide recorded his first solo album '' Chapter One - Chris Braide'' for

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. The album was produced by

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and Simply Red's

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. In 2014, the album was remastered and released in the UK on Plane Groovy Records In 1996, Dave Stewart signed Braide to his Warner Bros.-backed label Anxious Records, who released a single co-written with Chris Difford, "If I Hadn't Got You", and second single "Heavenly Rain", followed a year later by the album, '' Life in a Minor Key'', which was co-produced by Braide and David A. Stewart at

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in New York. The record was released in the US on

and in 2013 a vinyl version was released on Plane Groovy Records. In 2012, Braide teamed up with

under the name "DBA" ("Downes Braide Association"). The result was an album, ''Pictures of You'', released in Summer 2012 on Plane Groovy Records. Since then, they have released three more studio recordings (''Suburban Ghosts'' in 2015, ''Skyscraper Souls'' in 2017 and ''Halcyon Hymns'' in 2021), and a live album (''Live in England'' in 2019). ''Celestial Songs'' was released in September 2023.

Filmography

Braide wrote, performed or produced songs on the following film soundtracks: * '' The Princess Diaries'' (2002) * '' Without a Paddle'' (2004) * '' St Trinian's'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2011) * ''The Great Gatsby'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2015) * '' Leap'' (2016) * '' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children'' (2016) * '' Fifty Shades Darker'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2018) * ''

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'' (2018) * '' Duck Duck Goose'' (2018) * '' Trouble'' (2021)

Advertising campaigns

He wrote, performed or produced songs in the following advertising campaigns: * Bud Light – Aluminium Super Bowl – 10 ft Tall ft Wrabel (2014) * Gillette – Unstoppable/Pretty Isn't Perfect/ Rio Olympic Games (2016) * Pocky Sticks – Rescue – Yuna (2016) * Estee Lauder ft Kendall Jenner and Elle King / Wild Love (2017) * Estee Lauder – See the world with wide-open eyes – It's You ft Magical Thinker and Wrabel (2017) * MAC – Helium / Guetta Re-mix (2018) * Lancome Paris/ Zendaya ft Sia "Unstoppable" (2019) * Samsung Galaxy Sia "Unstoppable" (2022)

References

External links

Official websiteDownes Braide Association (DBA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Braide, Chris 1973 births Living people English male singer-songwriters English singer-songwriters English record producers Musicians from Cheshire 21st-century English singers 21st-century British male singers The Trevor Horn Band members