Joel Little
Music Producer & Co-founder at Big Fan
Joel Little is a Grammy-winning New Zealand music producer and songwriter best known for co-writing and producing Lorde's breakout single Royals, for which he won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year. He has since worked with Taylor Swift, Khalid, Imagine Dragons and Tove Lo, among others. With his wife Gemma, Little co-founded Big Fan, a not-for-profit music hub in Auckland's Kingsland with four studios and a 200-capacity venue, built to give emerging New Zealand artists affordable access to recording and performing. On Diaspora NZ, he compared making hit songs to building a startup.
In their own words
From S3 | E3 - Joel Little (Grammy-winning producer) on making Royals with Lorde, creative collaboration, and why startups are like hit songs · Diaspora NZYou can't fake something actually being good. As soon as you play a song to anybody else, they're going to know straight away.
Career
- Now Music Producer & Co-founder · Big Fan
- Until 2010 Singer/guitarist · Goodnight Nurse
- From 2013 Producer & co-writer · Lorde (production/songwriting)
- From 2014 Producer · Broods (production)
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, billboard.com
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