Fred Ball (producer)

Fredrik William Ball
Background information
Birth name	Fredrik William Ball
Born	Fredrikstad, Norway
Genres	Pop, Soul, Hip hop, Electro
Occupation(s)	Record producer, Songwriter
Instruments	Keyboards, Piano, Drum machine, Bass, Guitar
Associated acts	Rihanna, Zara Larsson, Bernhoft, Astrid S, Jessie Ware, Brett Anderson
Website	rocnation.com/fred-ball/

Fred Ball is a record producer and songwriter living in London. He is originally from Fredrikstad in Norway. Fred moved to the UK when he formed his solo project Pleasure. The debut album was hailed as The Sunday Times’ favourite debut of the year.^[1] It featured artists such as Justine Frischmann, Ed Harcourt and Dr. Fink. "Pleasure" launched the start of Fred¹s songwriting and production career.^[2]

His production and writing credits include Rihanna, Zara Larsson, Little Mix, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, KT Tunstall, Brett Anderson, JLS, Petite Meller, Arrow Benjamin, Jessie Ware, JP Cooper and Bernhoft. Fred co-wrote and produced the single "Love on the Brain" for Rihanna’s latest album ANTI.^[3] Love on the Brain peaked at #5 on Billboard hot 100 and has become one of Rihanna’s most played US radio hits to date. On March 2017 Billboard put Fred in the Billboard Hot 100, Top 10 Producers.^[4]

He is published by Sony/ATV and managed by Roc Nation.^[5]

Production Discography

Rihanna

• Love On The Brain

Zara Larsson

• One Mississippi

Petite Meller

• America

Astrid S

• Does She Know

All Saints

• Summer Rain- Puppet On A String

Betsy

• Time

Toby Randall

• Misfits

Samuel Larsen

• You Should Know

Leo Stannard

• In My Blood

Pleasure

• Don’t Look The Other Way
• From The Country To The City
• All I Want- Stories- Memory
• Sensitivity
• You Got To Love Someone
• Disco Doctor
• The Visionary

Pleasure II

• Alright All Nite
• Out Of Love
• Throw it All Away
• Back to You
• UpTown
• Bite The Beat
• Silk Dream
• Eskimo Kiss
• Finest Thing
• NYCSC
• Nightvision

Little Boots

• Click
• Ghost

Bernhoft

• Choices
• Control
• C’mon Talk
• Space In My Heart
• Buzz Aldrin
• Wind You Up
• Freedom- One Way Track
• I Believe In All The Things You Don’t
• We Have A Dream

Cerys Matthews

• Caught In The Middle

KT Tunstall

• Universe & U

Little Mix

• Nowhere To Go
• Boy- See Me Now
• They Just Don’t Know You

Daley

• Smoking Gun

Sophie Ellis Bextor

• Synchronised

JLS

• Last Song
• Innocence
• Shy Of The Cool

Pixie Lott

• Catching Snowflakes

Samsaya

• Stereotype
• Bombay Calling
• Beginning at The End
• Love Maze
• Breaking Bad
• Superhero
• My Mind

Kylie Minogue

• Uncut Stone

Brett Anderson

• Love is Dead
• To The Winter
• Scorpio Rising
• Colour Of The Night
• Song For My Father
• The More We Possess the less we own Ourselves
• Chinese Whispers
• Back To You

Bertine Zetlitz

• Ah Ah
• Fake Your Beauty
• Want You
• If YouBuy The Blue One
• Kiss me Harder
• Candy
• Rollerskating
• Broken

Emmanuelle Seigner

• Les Mots Simples

Awards/Honors

Sunday Times - Favourite Album of the Year ^[1]

Grammy Nomination: Best R&B Album for Bernhoft’s Islander ^[6][5]

Grammy Nomination: Best Urban Contemporary Album for Rihanna's "Anti"

Articles

• http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-rihanna-top-ten-chart-20170222-story.html on LA Times
• http://www.vg.no/rampelys/musikk/rihanna/rihanna-danker-ut-michael-jackson-paa-billboard-med-norsk-laat/a/23931577/ on VG
• http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7720948/rihanna-22nd-top-five-hot-100-hit on Billboard

References