Lucas Secon

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Lucas Secon (known musically as Lucas) is a Danish-American musician best known for his 1994 song "Lucas With The Lid Off" from his album Lucacentric.

[edit] History

Signed to Uptown Records by Andre Harrell, Lucas debuted in 1990 with the album To Rap My World Around You. In 1992 he signed with Atlantic Records and moved into the public eye with the release of his 1994 album Lucacentric, a much more jazz-influenced work than his previous effort. Lucacentric went top 10 in at least 10 countries and was top 30 on the US charts. The music video for his single "Lucas With The Lid Off", directed by Michel Gondry, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Music Video, Short Form^[1] and a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video^[2] in 1995. The video features a very distinctive and memorable style, being shot in one take among a variety of different sets. It was voted #4 best video of all time by MTV US.^{[citation needed]}

Lucas won Spin Magazine's Golden Poets Award for his poem "The Ice Age"^{[citation needed]}, which became a song on To Rap My World Around You.

After Lucacentric, Lucas has primarily worked as a writer and producer. With Aaron Carter, he produced and cowrote "Leave it Up to Me", the lead single from the animated movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Other artists Lucas has worked with include Lene Nystrom (former lead singer of Aqua), Sugababes, Nick Carter, Mic Little, Outlandish, Keisha White, Cassidy, Sly n Robbie, Mos Def, Mark Morrison and Daz Dillinger, Liberty X, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, ABS, Fu-el, Omero Mumba, Chubb Rock, Tweet, Wayne Hector, Andrea Martin, Michelle Bell, Joleyon Skinner, Nina Woodford, Josh Thompson, Boom, Don E, Blazin Squad, Tyler James, Lewis Taylor, IAM, Richard Blackwood, and Safri Duo.

Lucas is currently producing a single called "My Song", co-written with Andrea Martin, for new Def Jam artist Mic Little. He is also writing and producing for the hip-hop animation project Freefonix, scheduled to air on the BBC in 2007.

[edit] Family

Lucas' father, Paul Secon, is perhaps best known as the founder of Pottery Barn. He also worked as a lyricist for Nat King Cole, The Ink Spots, and The Mills Brothers. His mother, Danish artist Berta Moltke, was the head of the Danish Academy of Arts for several years. Lucas' son, Fabian, debuted as a MC at age 3 on the Lucas-produced record Blisterfunk (Atlantic Records UK, 2002).^{[citation needed]}