Christopher Braide is an English songwriter, record producer and singer, based in Malibu, Los Angeles.
First signed as a solo artist by David A. Stewart in the UK and Craig Kallman at Atlantic Records in the US, Braide relocated to Los Angeles to produce and write for artists including Sia, Lana Del Rey, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, David Guetta, Halsey, Wrabel, Marc Almond, Beth Ditto, Yuna and Beyoncé.
Braide is a frequent collaborator of Sia; together they have written for her own projects, movie soundtracks and for several other artists. Notable songs they have written over the years include "Kill and Run" for The Great Gatsby film and soundtrack, "Helium" for the 2017 Fifty Shades Darker film and soundtrack, "Pretty Isn't Perfect" and "Unstoppable" for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, "God Made You Beautiful" for the Beyoncé film Life Is But a Dream, "Perfume" for Britney Spears, "Blank Page" for Christina Aguilera, and "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)" for David Guetta featuring Sia. Most recently, their song "Helium" was remixed for MAC cosmetics a collaboration for the cosmetic company's AIDS Fund by David Guetta and Afrojack, and a new single, "Flames", was released by David Guetta.
In 2022, the song "Unstoppable" was released to radio as an official single in the United States after gaining popularity through commercials and video-sharing app TikTok. It became No.1 on the Adult Pop Airplay Chart 6 years after its release and is the first record in a quarter of a century to be in the charts for over 100 weeks.
He has a duo group with Geoff Downes (Yes, Buggles, Asia and others), called Downes Braide Association (DBA), since 2012.
Braide has won an Ivor Novello award and been nominated for a Grammy. He is published by BMG Rights Management worldwide and Magical Thinking BMI.
Select songwriting and production discography YearArtistAlbumLabelSongWriter/Producer2022SiaUnstoppableMonkey Puzzle/RCA"Unstoppable"Writer/Producer2021SiaMusic – Songs from and Inspired by the Motion PictureMonkey Puzzle/Atlantic"Music"Writer/Producer2020Toni BraxtonSpell My NameIsland Records"Saturday Night"Writer/ProducerHalseyAstralwerks"Honesty"Writer/ProducerMarc AlmondChaos and a Dancing StarBMGAll SongsWriter/ProducerMayer HawthorneRare ChangesBig Bucks"M.O."Writer 2019Freya RidingsFreya RidingsGood Soldier"Still Have You"Writer/ProducerSia ft Hans ZimmerSeven Worlds, One PlanetBBCOut ThereWriter/ProducerEvie Irie5 weeks in LARepublic"Vulnerable"Writer/ProducerNatalie Portman / CelesteVox Lux (soundtrack) Columbia"Wrapped Up", "Your Body Talk"Writer/Producer 2018Nicki MinajQueen Young Money/Cash Money/Republic"Come See About Me"Writer/ProducerSia & David Guetta7What A Music/Warner "Flames"Writer/ProducerSia vs. David Guetta & AfrojackMAC Monkey Puzzle"Helium"Writer/ProducerLPHeart to MouthVagrant/BMG"Recovery"Writer/ProducerRobin Schulz ft Erika SirolaIIIIAtlantic"Speechless"Writer 2017SiaBallerina (titled Leap! in the United States)Gaumont"Suitcase"Writer/ProducerRobin SchulzUncoveredWarner"I Believe I'm Fine"Writer/ProducerMarc AlmondShadows and ReflectionsBMG"Embers"Writer/ProducerElle KingEstee Lauder Ft Kendall JennerRCA/ Magical Thinker Records"Wild Love"Writer/ProducerAllie XCollXtion IITwin Music"True Love Is Violent"Writer/ProducerWrabelEstee Lauder Ft Magical Thinker & WrabelEpic/ Magical Thinker Records"It's You"Writer/ProducerMeg MacLow BlowsLittle Big Man"Don't Need Permission"ProducerHalseyHopeless Fountain KingdomAstralwerks"The Prologue"WriterLea MichelePlacesColumbia"Heavy Love"WriterSia Fifty Shades Darker: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackRepublic"Helium"Writer/ProducerMarc Almond Hits and Pieces: The Best of Marc Almond and Soft CellUMC"A Kind of Love"Writer/Producer2016Sia This Is Acting (Deluxe Version) Columbia"Confetti"Writer/Producer"Midnight Decisions"Writer/Producer Sia This Is Acting Columbia"Unstoppable""Space Between"Writer/Producer Rozes/ Elizabeth MencelUnder The Grave 2015 Selena Gomez Revival Interscope CamouflageHalsey Room 93Astralwerks/Capitol"Trouble"Marc Almond The Velvet TrailCherry Red RecordsAll songsCo-Writer/ProducerKate Pierson Guitars and MicrophonesKobalt"4 songs"Writer/ProducerKatharine McPhee HysteriaeOneRound Your Little Finger2014Sia1000 Forms of Fear Columbia"Eye of the Needle" Writer"Big Girls Cry"Writer/Producer Colbie Caillat Gypsy HeartUniversal"Break Free"Paloma Faith A Perfect ContradictionEpic/RCA"Impossible Heart"Afrojack Forget the WorldUniversal / Def Jam"Ten Feet Tall"2013Lea Michele Louder Columbia"If You Say So""You're Mine"Britney Spears Britney Jean RCA"Perfume""Brightest Morning Star" Vocal ProducerBeyoncé Life Is But a Dream Columbia"God Made You Beautiful" Writer/ProducerSia The Great Gatsby soundtrack Interscope Records"Kill and Run"David Guetta featuring SiaNothing But the Beat 2.0 Virgin Records/ EMI"She Wolf"StoosheLondon with the Lights On Warner Bros"Your Own Kind of Beautiful""Perfectly Wrong"YunaNocturnal Verve/ Universal"Rescue""Colors""Escape""Come Back" ProducerSixth Street"Let Love Come Through Ft Kyle" Writer/ ProducerSarah BrightmanDreamchaser Decca"Closer"2012Lana Del ReyBorn to Die Interscope "Million Dollar Man"Leak"Damn You""Queen of Disaster""Hollywood's Dead" Christina AguileraLotus RCA"Blank Page"Paloma FaithFall to Grace Epic"30 Minute Love Affair" Writer YunaYuna Fader"Lullabies"Writer/Producer "Favorite Things" "Loud Noises" " Islands " " Decorate " Delta GoodremChild of the Universe Sony Music"Hunter and the Wolves" Producer "Speed of Life" "Control" 2011 JLS Jukebox Epic"Killed By Love" Writer/Producer Theophilus London Warner Bros"Century Girl" featuring Dev Hynes Pixie Lott "Turn It Up Louder" Mercury"Doin' Fine (Without You)"2010Diana VickersSongs from the Tainted Cherry Tree RCA "The Boy Who Murdered Love" "N.U.M.B""Four Leaf Clover""Me and You"JLSOutta This World Epic"That's Where I'm Coming From" Olly Murs Olly Murs Epic"Ask Me to Stay" Writer The Saturdays Wordshaker Fascination/ Polydor"Denial" Writer/Producer2009 Cheryl Cole 3 Words Fascination/ Polydor"Don't Talk About This Love" Writer Lolene The Electrick Hotel Island Def Jam"Beautiful Disaster" Writer/ProducerThe SaturdaysChasing Lights Fascination/ Polydor"Chasing Lights" Westlife Where We Are Syco Music "Reach Out"Natalie Bassingthwaighte1000 Stars"1000 Stars""Turn The Lights On" Glenn TilbrookPandemonium Ensues Quixotic Records"Little Ships" Writer"Melancholy Emotion" 2008 Will Young Let It Go RCA"If Love Equals Nothing" Writer/Producer Leon Jackson Right Now Syco"Don't Call This Love" James MorrisonSongs for You, Truths for Me Polydor "Save Yourself" WriterJLSJLS Epic "Heal This Heartbreak"2007David JordanSet the Mood ZTT"Fight the World" "Only Living Soul" The Click FiveModern Minds and Pastimes Atlantic Records"Jenny""Happy Birthday""I'm Getting Over You"2006Duncan JamesFuture Past Innocent Records"Sooner or Later""Somebody Still Loves You" "I Come Alive""Frequency""Letter to God" Beverley KnightVoice – The Best of Beverley Knight Parlophone Records"Not Too Late for Love" Writer/ Producer"Who's Gonna Save Your Soul" The Webb SistersDaylight Crossing Universal Records"Please" Writer2004Jesse McCartneyBeautiful Soul Hollywood Records"Because You Live" Writer/ ProducerDiana DeGarmoBlue Skies Sony MusicDreams WriterEmotional Lara FabianA Wonderful LifeI AmBeverley KnightAffirmation Parlophone"Not Too Late for Love" Writer/ Producer"Tea and Sympathy"Glenn TilbrookTransatlantic Ping Pong Quixotic Records "Untouchable""Ray and Me" WriterLisa Stansfield"The Moment" ZTT "If I Hadn't Got You"2003Kylie MinogueBody Language Parlophone Records"After Dark" Writer/ ProducerPlayReplay Columbia Records"Let's Get to the Love Part" WriterClay AikenMeasure of a Man RCA"This Is the Night""Run To Me""Invisible"S Club 7Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7Polydor"Say Goodbye"2002Will YoungFrom Now On Syco Music"Anything Is Possible"2001S Club 7Sunshine Parlophone Records"Have You Ever"Victoria BeckhamVictoria Beckham Virgin Records"I O U" Rick AstleyKeep It Turned OnPolydor"Sleeping" Writer/ProducerEmma BuntonA Girl Like Me Virgin Records"Spell It O.U.T" Writer"Been There, Done That" Glenn TilbrookThe Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook Quixotic Records"Parallel World""Morning" Brian KennedyGet on with Your Short Life Sony Music "Get on with Your Short Life"1999Brian KennedyNow That I Know What I Want 19 recordings"Now That I Know What I Want" 1996Cathy Dennis"Am I the Kinda Girl?" Polydor"Run Like a River"
Recording artist In 1993, Braide recorded his first solo album Chapter One - Chris Braide for Polydor Records. The album was produced by Thomas Dolby and Simply Red's Mick Hucknall. In 2014, the album was remastered and released in the UK on Plane Groovy Records
In 1996, Dave Stewart signed Braide to his Warner Bros.-backed label Anxious Records, who released a single co-written with Chris Difford, "If I Hadn't Got You", and second single "Heavenly Rain", followed a year later by the album, Life in a Minor Key, which was co-produced by Braide and David A. Stewart at Electric Lady Studios in New York. The record was released in the US on Atlantic Records and in 2013 a vinyl version was released on Plane Groovy Records.
In 2012, Braide teamed up with Geoff Downes under the name "DBA" ("Downes Braide Association"). The result was an album, Pictures of You, released in Summer 2012 on Plane Groovy Records. Since then, they have released five more studio recordings (Suburban Ghosts in 2015, Skyscraper Souls in 2017, Halcyon Hymns in 2021, Celestial Songs in September 2023 and Trauma appeared in September 2026). A live album (Live in England was released in 2019).
Filmography Braide wrote, performed or produced songs on the following film soundtracks:
The Princess Diaries (2002) Without a Paddle (2004) St Trinian's (2007) The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) The Great Gatsby (2013) Youth (2015) Leap (2016) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Fifty Shades Darker (2017) Wonder Woman (2017) Gnome Alone (2017) Charming (2018) Vox Lux (2018) Duck Duck Goose (2018) Trouble (2021) Sneaks (2025)
Advertising campaigns He wrote, performed or produced songs in the following advertising campaigns: Bud Light – Aluminium Super Bowl – 10 ft Tall ft Wrabel (2014) Gillette – Unstoppable/Pretty Isn't Perfect/ Rio Olympic Games (2016) Pocky Sticks – Rescue – Yuna (2016) Estee Lauder ft Kendall Jenner and Elle King / Wild Love (2017) Estee Lauder – See the world with wide-open eyes – It's You ft Magical Thinker and Wrabel (2017) MAC – Helium / Guetta Re-mix (2018) Lancome Paris/ Zendaya ft Sia "Unstoppable" (2019) Samsung Galaxy Sia "Unstoppable" (2022)
References
External links Official website Downes Braide Association (DBA) Interview, MuuMuse 2010