Rob Wells (born 1971/1972) is a Canadian producer/

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

, and is one half of music production team "The Fourth Floor" with award winning singer/songwriter/recording artist Shobha. Artists that Wells has worked with includes

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, Kai,

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, Corey Hart,

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, Shiloh,

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, Tyler Shaw,

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and Ry X. His work has been featured on ''

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'', ''One for the Money'', ''

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''. In 2005, Wells and fellow Canadian

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placed first in the

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's Top40/

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Category with their song "There's Us", which was later recorded by

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, Backstreet Boys and Jennifer Ewbank. Wells, along with Fred St-Gelais and

Marie-Mai Marie-Mai (born Marie-Mai Bouchard on July 7, 1984, in Varennes, Quebec) is a Canadian singer from Quebec. She was initially known as one of the finalists of the first season of the Quebec reality show ''Star Académie''. Background Marie-Mai ...

, received a

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#1 award for Marie-Mai's "Comme Avant", which remained at #1 for 11 weeks in a row in 2011. He also received a SOCAN #1 award for

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's "All About Me", having reached the top of the Canadian AC Radio Charts in August 2006, and a SOCAN #1 award for

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's "Un coup sur mon cœur". Wells appeared on an episode of ''House of Carters'' as a music producer. He has also appeared on 4 seasons of YTV's ''

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'' as a music producer. In 2013, Wells was named by a ''

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'' online poll as the 8th most influential person living in Mississauga,

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, and received a star on the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame in 2015.

References

External links

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Rob Wells on SoundcloudRob Wells on Songwriters Association of CanadaRob Wells on Myspace
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wells, Rob Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian songwriters Canadian record producers