Lucas Secon

Lucas Secon
Lucas Secon by Topper Hill
Born	Lucas Secon Copenhagen, Denmark
Other names	Lucas (as singer/rapper)
Occupation	Musician DJ singer songwriter record producer recording/mixing engineer
Relatives	Paul Secon (father) Berta Moltke (mother)
Musical career
Genres	Electronic soul R&B pop hip hop
Instruments	keyboards vocals
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Big Beat Uptown WEA Mercury Polydor
Website	LucasSecon.com

Lucas Secon, also known by the stage name Lucas, is a Grammy Award^[1]^[2] and MTV Award nominated^[3] and a BMI Award winning^[4] record producer, songwriter, DJ, rapper, and singer who has written and produced for The Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kylie Minogue, Toni Braxton, Mos Def, The Wanted, The Saturdays, JLS, Alesso, Snoop Dogg, Olly Murs, Boyz 2 Men, Cheryl Cole, Steve Aoki, Sean Kingston, Sugababes, Rivers Cuomo and Travie McCoy.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Career

1990-1994: solo career

Signed to Uptown Records by Andre Harrell, Secon debuted in 1990 with the album To Rap My World Around You.^[11]

In 1993 he signed with Atlantic Records' East Coast hip hop and dance music record label, Big Beat, and released his 1994 album, the jazz-influenced Lucacentric which hit the Top 40 in at least 10 countries. It also spawned the single Lucas with the Lid Off, which peaked at #29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[12] and became his only Top 40 hit as a solo artist. The music video for the single, directed by Michel Gondry, received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards and a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video^[13] in 1995.

Song writing and producing career

Following the release of Lucacentric, Secon moved into music production and song writing, producing and writing for recording artists such as The Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, The Wanted, Kylie Minogue, Toni Braxton, Mos Def, The Saturdays and Keisha White.

He wrote and produced on three no.1 UK albums: Conor Maynard's Contrast, Olly Murs's Right Place Right Time and Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite, and two UK no.2 albums with The Wanted's debut album^[14] and Sugababes Angels with Dirty Faces;^[15] as well as a top 5 American album with The Pussycat Dolls's Doll Domination, a no.1 US R&B Billboard album with Toni Braxton's Pulse a Top 10 American albums with Aaron Carter's Platinum-certified Oh Aaron^[16] and a no.3 Billboard album with Big Time Rush's BTR^[17]

Awards and nominations

Secon has been nominated for Grammy and MTV awards, and in 2010 won a BMI London Award in Pop Music for The Pussycat Dolls I Hate This Part.

Grammy nomination in Best Music Video for Lucas With The Lid Off^[18]^[19]
MTV nomination for Best Male Video for Lucas With The Lid Off^[20]
BMI airplay award for The Pussycat Dolls I Hate This Part^[21]

History

Secon’s American father, Paul Secon, who worked as a music critic and a Billboard reporter, was also a musician and songwriter whose work was performed by Nat King Cole, The Ink Spots, Rosemary Clooney,^[22] and The Mills Brothers, who recorded Secon’s composition ‘’You Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry)’’.^[23] Paul Secon also wrote a musical, ’’Patrick X’’, based on the life of civil rights activist Malcolm X.^[24] His mother is that Danish artist Berta Moltke, former head of the Danish Academy of Arts.^[25] Secon’s son, Fabian, is also a recording artist ^[26]

Discography

^[27]^[28]^[29]

Albums

1990: To Rap My World Around You^[30]
1994: Lucacentric^[31]

Singles and EPs

1991: Show Me Your Moves - Uptown/RCA^[32]^[33]
1994: Wau Wau Wau - Big Beat^[34]
1994: Lucas with the Lid Off - Big Beat^[35]
1994: CityZen - WEA^[36]
1996: Comin’ Out To Play (feat Junior Danegrous) - Mercury^[37]
2001: My Feet Hurt (featuring Blue) - Open-Dor Records^[38]
2001: My Feet Work - Polydor^[39]

Selective discography as Songwriter and Producer

Pussycat Dolls - I Hate This Part - co-writer^[40]^[41]
Travie McCoy - Need You - co-writer/producer^[42]
Blonde - All Cried Out - co-writer/co-producer^[43]
Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way - co-writer/co-producer^[44]
Kylie Minogue - Go Hard Or Go Home - co-writer^[45]
The Wanted - Heart Vacancy - co-writer^[46]
Toni Braxton - Make My Heart and Watching You - producer/co-writer^[47]
Christina Aguilera - Red Hot Kinda Love (from Lotus))- co-writer/producer^[48]
Big Time Rush - Boyfriend (feat Snoop Dogg) (from album BTR)- producer/co-writer^[49]
Sugababes - Virgin Sexy (from Angels With Dirty Faces) - co-writer/producer^[50]
Sugababes - More Than A Million Miles - mixer/producer/co-writer^[51]
Pixie Lott - Gravity - co-writer^[52]^[53]
The Saturdays -The Way You Watch Me - producer/co-writer^[54]
Cheryl Cole - Goodbye Means Hello - co-writer/co-producer/co-mixer^[55]^[56]
Alesso - Cool - co-writer^[57]
Sean Kingston - Face Drop - producer/co-writer^[58]
Conor Maynard - Another One (from: Contrast) - co-writer/producer^[59]
Olly Murs - Cry Your Heart Out (Right Place Right Time) - producer/co-writer^[60]
Travie McCoy - Lazarus - writer/producer^[61]
Keisha White - Don’t Mistake Me - writer^[62]
Keisha White - I Don't Care Who Knows (feat Cassidy) and The Weakness In Me - producer/writer
Boyz II Men - Underwater (from: Collide) - writer/producer^[63]
JLS - Can't Sing About Love (from: Outta This World) - writer/producer^[64]
Steve Aoki - Earthquakey People (feat Rivers Cuomo) - writer^[65]
Chubb Rock (feat Pete Nice, Lady Of Rage, Tone, Lucas) - Bring ‘Em Home Safely - writer
Mohombi - In Your Head - co-writer/producer^[66]
Tohoshinki - Jumon Mirotic - writer/producer
Blak Twang Dettwork South-East - producer
Shinee - Love Like Oxygen - producer^[67]
Aaron Carter - Not Too Young, Not Too Old (from Oh Aaron), Another Earthquake and America A O - writer^[68]
Aaron Carter Leave It Up to Me (from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)
Jordin Sparks - Walking On Snow and It Takes More (from Battlefield) - writer/producer/mixer^[69]
Miranda Cosgrove – Face Of Love (from High Maintenance) - producer/writer^[70]
House of Pharaohs - Pull Up - producer ^[71]
Boom! - Falling - writer/producer^[72]
Shara Nelson – Poetry and Exit 1 (from Friendly Fire) - writer
Mos Def - Ms Fat Booty - producer
Richard Blackwood - Mama (Who Da Man) - writer/producer^[73]

Music used on soundtracks

Can't Hardly Wait (1998) Lucas With The Lid Off - as Lucas^[74]^[75]
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) Leave It Up to Me by Aaron Carter

External links

Interview, HitQuarters May 2010

References

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