Eg White - Biography

Biography

White started his career in the bands Yip Yip Coyote and, with his brother David, Brother Beyond in the late 1980s, leaving the latter when they became involved with the songwriting team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and just prior to their chart successes.

In 1990 White collaborated with London model and BMX champion Alice Temple to record the critically acclaimed pop album 24 Years of Hunger, which was released in 1991 under the name Eg and Alice and failed to chart. It was described by Allmusic as "one of the finest, most refined and fully realized recordings of the era, employing a much more sophisticated and romantic style than anything else out of England at the time".

In 1992 White produced the debut, self titled album by Kinky Machine, then disappeared from the music industry until 1996 when he released his debut solo album Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man, which was unsuccessful.

He turned to songwriting in 1997, providing instrumentation for the sessions of Suggs' solo album The Three Pyramids Club, but in 1999 his career really started to take off as he became an in-demand songwriter, musician and producer. He collaborated with Alice Temple again for her solo debut album Hang Over, Icelandic/Italian singer Emiliana Torrini on her debut album Love in the Time of Science and produced British singer/songwriter Mark Abis' album Changing Inside.

White's song "Leave Right Now" was recorded by Will Young in 2003, and reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart. In recognition, White was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2004. He has since enjoyed continued chart success - with acts such as Duffy, Adele, James Morrison, Joss Stone and Will Young - and had cuts with numerous other artists including Pink, Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Florence + the Machine. In 2009 White was awarded his second Ivor Novello Award for 'Songwriter of the Year', and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "Once", a song he wrote with Cathy Dennis.

White started his own record label imprint, Spilt Milk Records, in 2009 - making Lauren Pritchard its first signing, and then signing an exclusive license deal with Island Records to release the album Wasted In Jackson in 2010. The album features collaborations with White, Ed Harcourt and Marcus Mumford (of the band Mumford & Sons).

Though White is first and foremost a songwriter/producer, he has signed a recording contract with Parlophone Records and released a second album entitled Adventure Man on 18 May 2009. The instrumental version of the lead single, "Broken", was used as the incidental music to the BMW PGA Championship 2009 and played during the closing credits of BBC's coverage of England's final game in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He is an accomplished player of many instruments, playing all instruments on his album and also on many of his productions of other people's work.