| Victoria Horn | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Kent, England |
| Genres | Pop, Urban, dance, Electronica, Standard, Rock, Classical |
| Occupations | Songwriter (lyric and melody) |
Victoria Horn is a contemporary songwriter who is active in London and Los Angeles. She has contributed numerous hit songs in many genres.
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Victoria Horn began studying the piano at age eight and later learned the guitar. At an early age she showed promise in the areas of both fashion design and music (winning a young designer award at age 16.) She is also an accomplished show jumper with a long familial tradition in the sport. She is often referred to by her nom de plum "Lady V."
Lady V began her professional music career as an artist featured on dance songs. Her first major songwriting release, a song from 2001 called "Days Go By" performed by Dirty Vegas, peaked at No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Play following its implementation in an advertisement for the Mitsubishi Eclipse. "Days Go By" continued to garner heavy radio play throughout 2002 and win a Grammy Award[1] for Best Dance Recording as well as an ASCAP Pop Music Award[2] for its author.
In 2003, a song she cowrote for Enrique Iglesius (and featured Kelis) entitled "Not in Love" won the Billboard Latin Dance song of the year and enjoyed top ten placement in many sales charts around the world.
In 2008, Lady V cowrote the song "This is Us" which appeared on the Keyshia Cole album "A Different Me." The album went on to sell 1 million copies. As well, during this year, Horn collaborated with songwriters David "DQ" Quiñones, Erika Nuri, Rodney Jerkins, and Evan Bogart to found The Writing Camp. The Writing Camp wrote Brandy's debut single "Right Here (Departed)" off her 2008 album Human. The song was picked as the album's leading single and Brandy's first release with Epic Records, following her split with Atlantic Records in 2005. Fellow cowriter Rodney Jerkins said about Ms. Horn, "'I've had the pleasure of writing with Victoria Horn on a lot of great music. Her great sense of melody and new fresh approach to concepts and lyrics is what I love about her writing. She is defintely one of my new favorite songwriters to work with."
In 2009, Demi Lovato's "Here We Go Again" album, on which Ms. Horn wrote the song "Got Dynamite," released straight to no. 1 on the Billboard chart.
Lady V. is currently involved with the co-creation of her own music company named "Boutique Music Company" alongside Craig Logan and Natalia Chalcraft (the daughter of Pete Chalcraft who owns Nottinghill Music in America.) Their offices will be located in West Hollywood above the iconic Katana restaurant, and their current client list includes DJ James Doman and Mark Portmann. Boutique Music Company is a sister company to Logan Media Entertainment.
Ms. Horn is also active within the songwriting community. She runs a private professional songwriters and producers rights group called the Songwriter Awareness Collective. She maintains a Facebook group that provides songwriters with a forum to discuss issues relevant to their field.
Victoria Horn is credited as a writer or cowriter of the following songs.
As of the summer of 2011, Ms. Horn is currently involved with projects with the following artists: Deadmau5, Mary J. Blige, Delta Goodrem, Cher, Kelly Clarkson, Avery, Charice, Natasha Bedingfield, Adam Lambert, Arianna Grande, Nick Jonas, Richard Vission, The Freemasons, Ferry Corsten, Doman and Gooding, Demi Lovato, David Archuleta, Big Time Rush, Leona Lewis, Westlife, Kelly Rowland, Kaskade, Kylie Minogue, Michael Bublé Cherie, Nikki Williams, Willow Smith, Jessica Jarrell, Mann, Laza Morgan, Clement Malfoy, Scorcher, Kayla Kai, Monarchy, Ignug, and Bette Midler.
She is also involved in writing music for television, film (songs for the film Spy Kids), and video games.
She works with the following producers: Bk, Dr Luke, Rodney Jerkins, Damon Sharpe, Ryan Tedder, Bryan-Michael Cox, Danja Handz, Young Yonny, Matt Squire, Nick Jonas, Oak, Jukebox, Kool Kojak, JR Rotem, Evan Bogart, Cristyle Ink, James Doman, Mario Winans, Little Eddie, Boy Reckless, Tom Shapiro, Armin van Buuren, Dirty Vegas, David Guetta, Frankie Storm and DJ Frank E, Sham and Mozart, The Freemasons, Lindy Robbins, and Kasia Livingston.