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</gallery>Chris Braide (born 6 February 1973 in Cheshire) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and music publisher. He has written songs for a variety of artists including Will Young's biggest selling single, Glenn Tilbrook (of Squeeze), Beverley Knight , Gareth Gates, Lisa Stansfield, Kylie Minogue, Simon Webbe, Jesse McCartney. He wrote S Club 7's hit singles "Have You Ever" and "Say Goodbye" plus Clay Aiken's American number one single "This Is The Night" and follow up smash hit "Invisible". He is currently lead singer in new band signed to stiff records called The Producers.

At 17, he signed his first publishing deal with Zomba Music and was also signed to Polydor Records aged 18. It was during this period that Braide worked with producer Thomas Dolby on the single "Funny Five Minutes".

In 1993, Braide spent six weeks in Italy recording tracks with Mick Hucknall and Gota Yashiki, who were then looking for new artists to produce. Hucknall was played several demo tapes by Polydor A&R man Paul Morgan, but it was Braide's that attracted his attention. Although the resultant album was never released, tracks were re-recorded for a later album produced by Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics).

Braide has achieved considerable success as a songwriter at home and in the US. He co-wrote "This Is the Night" recorded by Clay Aiken (from American Idol), which entered the Billboard Top 100 in June 2003. The single was RIAA certified platinum on July 15, 2003. Debuting at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot 100 Single Sales Chart, it was the fastest-selling single since Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and the best-selling single of 2003. It was the first CD single to go platinum since 2002, selling over a million copies.

Braide also wrote "Anything Is Possible", a number one single for Pop Idol winner Will Young in the UK. In March 2002, this became the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history, selling 403,027 copies on its day of release (1,108,659 copies in its first week). It went on to sell over 1.7 million copies, and in the official list of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK issued later that year, it was 11th. The song was also featured as a B-side on the debut single by Gareth Gates, which itself went on to sell over 1.4 million singles in the UK, making "Anything is Possible" one of the most successful pop songs of recent times.

Braide co-wrote the debut single for Arista recording artist Diana DeGarmo. "Dreams" debuted at #2 in record sales and went #1 on the Billboard US Singles Sales Chart on September 17, 2005.

In the same year, Disney artist Jesse McCartney released his debut album Beautiful Soul. It featured a Chris Braide/Desmond Child/Andreas Carlsson song "Because You Live", which was also the title song of the Disney film The Princess Diaries. Jesse McCartney's album has since gone on to sell over 1.5 million copies and has achieved platinum status. The song also featured on The Princess Diaries soundtrack album, which has sold over 1 million copies.

Recent writing collaborations include Take That's Gary Barlow, The click five, the title song of US reality TV show Nemesis Rising and the title music for T4's "Mobile Act Unsigned" UK TV show. Braide has also been working on the debut album by Mercury Records artist David Jordan.

In May 2007, Australian idol star Dean Geyer released the Braide penned debut single 'If You Don't Mean It'. The song was #1 Most Played track in the country in its very first week to radio and peaked at #1 in the official charts.

In 2003 the song "Anything is possible" earned Braide an Ivor Novello Award. In 2004 Chris received an ASCAP award for the song "Invisible" which was among the most performed singles in the US. In 2005 Chris was awarded another ASCAP for the same song "Invisible" for most performed work on American radio. He is one of few British songwriters of late to reach multi million record sales in the United States. In a 2005 article for GQ magazine , Chris was among the most successful and influential men in the music business under 40 years of age.

In 1996 Braide signed a solo deal with Dave Stewart's label Anxious Records. The label released the hit single "If I Hadn't Got You" followed a year later by the album, Life in a Minor Key. The single was released in the US by Atlantic Records and a performance video was shot in Times Square.

The album was recorded in New York at the lengendary Electric Lady Studios and co-produced by Braide and Stewart. The second single taken from Life was "Heavenly Rain" featuring a member of Alisha's Attic on backing vocals. The single was accompanied by a video which was shot in New Orleans.

In 2006/7, Braide joined Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson, Lol Créme and ex-Del Amitri/Faithless drummer Ash Soan in Sarm West Studios to record a new album as The Producers.

The Producers played their first show at Camden Barfly in November 2006 to a sold-out audience and were joined on stage by Will Young for two songs and by David Jordan, then recently signed by Mercury.

Braide recently set up Untouchable Songs Ltd., a publishing company with Andy Graham (ex-EMI, Zomba). He is also the owner of a west London recording studio.

* Official website * Chris Braide on Myspace