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Dallas Austin (born December 29 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, guitarist, and keyboardist.

Career

He is a member of Highland Place Mobsters for Laface Records in the early nineties before embarking in as a full time producer. He has crafted songs for a number of R&B and pop chart artists, including Leona Lewis, Texas, Boyz II Men, Pink, JC Chasez, Monica, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, For Real, Aretha Franklin, Stacie Orrico, Another Bad Creation, Troop, and Brand New Heavies. Austin's most notable works are his many hits for LaFace act TLC (with which he won two Grammies for co-producing CrazySexyCool and FanMail), including "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "What about Your Friends", "Creep", "Silly Ho" and "Unpretty." He has a son, Tron, with TLC member Chilli.

Austin has tried his hand at remixing for other artists, most notably "They Don't Care About Us" for Michael Jackson and "The Power of Good-Bye" for Madonna. In more recent times, Austin's work has returned him to the charts, writing and producing the successful "Trick Me" for Kelis as well as "Left Outside Alone" and "Sick and Tired" for Anastacia.

In addition to American artists, Austin has produced songs for overseas artists. In 1999 Austin and Japanese pop singer Amuro Namie began a professional relationship in which he produced many of her songs until 2003.

Austin is also known for socially conscious productions such as TLC's "Unpretty" and "Damaged", and more recently "Ugly" for UK act Sugababes. For the Sugababes, Austin produced several other tracks on their number-one album Taller in More Ways, including the single "Push the Button", which spent three weeks at the top of the UK charts. He also produced the Girls Aloud' Comic Relief collaboration with Sugababes on "Walk This Way". He is also responsible for producing Gwen Stefani's single "Cool" from her "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." album.

Other credits of Austin's include the number-two single "Hit 'Em Up Style" recorded by Blu Cantrell, "Don't Let Me Get Me" and "Just like a Pill" by P!nk, and the hit "Secret" by Madonna.

Austin also formed Rowdy Records in 1992 and was the executive producer of the film Drumline (2002) for 20th Century Fox. He also served as the film's musical director. Austin is currently working with Warner Bros. studios on another music-driven film, and he also contributed to the re-release of Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi.

On August 5, 2007, his home appeared on the newest season of MTV Cribs.

Austin is to be reunited with Chilli of TLC, who is the mother of his son Tron. They will work on her new solo album.

Selected production credits

Selected Remixes

See also

External links

  •  • [ e] TLC
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas
Discography
Studio albums: Ooooooohhh.... On the TLC Tip (1992) CrazySexyCool (1994) FanMail (1999) 3D (2002)
Other albums: (2003) (2007)
Singles: "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" "Baby-Baby-Baby" "What About Your Friends" "Hat 2 Da Back" "Get It Up" "Creep" "Red Light Special" "Waterfalls" "Diggin' on You" "Creep '96" "Silly Ho" "No Scrubs"
"I'm Good At Being Bad" "Unpretty" "My Life" "Dear Lie" "Girl Talk" "Hands Up" "Damaged" "Turntable" "Come Get Some" "I Bet"
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