Rhett Lawrence is a record producer and songwriter, who has been described as a visionary who has the ability to create career-defining hits for artists. Throughout his career, Lawrence’s creative contributions helped generate sales of over 225 million records and he received over 725 gold, platinum and diamond awards worldwide. He has produced, mentored, and helped launch the career of 5 of the top 200 artists of all time who have sold over 350,000,000 records worldwide. He has worked with 30 of the top 500 artists of all time who have sold over 2.2 billion records worldwide. He is originally famous for producing the
Grammy Award–winning, Billboard No. 1 Hot 100 and No. 1 R&B single "
Vision of Love" for
Mariah Carey. He produced and co-wrote
Kelly Clarkson's first single following her
American Idol victory... The pop rock hit, "
Miss Independent," was No. 1 for 6 weeks at Top 40 Radio and received a Grammy Award nomination for
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Lawrence's second collaboration with Clarkson led to the creation of a new anthem for
Ford Motor Company titled "Go." The song was introduced first during
American Idol and was inspired by Lawrence's love for Ford's anniversary re-issue of the
GT40 Lemans race car (
Ford GT). "Go" became Ford's theme song for the Americas, and led to Ford sponsoring Clarkson's tour for two years. Ford and Clarkson gave away a
Ford Mustang or
Ford Fusion to a lucky audience member at each concert. He produced and co-wrote the Billboard No. 2 Rap single “
Request + Line” for
The Black Eyed Peas featuring
Macy Gray, which gave them their first top 40 hit in many countries worldwide. Lawrence's belief in
will.i.am's talent and potential led to a mentoring friendship which lasted many years and led to great success. He produced and co-wrote the No. 1 UK hit single "
Never Be The Same Again" with
Melanie C. of
The Spice Girls and
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of
TLC, which was No. 1 in 35 countries. He wrote the No. 1 single "
Angel of Mine" recorded by
Monica and
Eternal and co-wrote the No. 1 UK song “
I Wanna Be the Only One” for
Eternal featuring
BeBe Winans. He also programmed the distinctive drum loop (with Maurice Gibb & Scott Glasel) for the
Bee Gees 1987 No.1 hit "You Win Again" which sold over 3 million copies worldwide. In addition, he has produced and written songs for and with the likes of
Whitney Houston,
June Pointer of the legendary pop/R&B group
The Pointer Sisters,
Crystal Lewis,
Enrique Iglesias,
Victoria Beckham,
Paula Abdul with
Ofra Haza,
Selena,
Earth Wind and Fire (singles and albums),
Little Richard,
Philip Bailey,
Gladys Knight,
Hilary Duff,
Jessica Simpson,
98 Degrees,
Crystal Bernard,
Jon Anderson (
Yes), Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe,
Carola Häggkvist, gospel greats
BeBe & CeCe Winans, and
Kirk Franklin.