Born To Do IT - Background and Recording

Background and Recording

After being enlisted for Artful Dodger's, "Rewind" by producers/songwriters Mark Hill and Pete Deveraux, Craig David began recording his debut album, in which began in 1999 until 2000 before Craig had even been offered a recording contract. Mark Hill believes that "the absence of label executives and such provided the two with greater freedom when producing the album. When we started writing Born To Do It, there were no labels involved or managers or anything. We’d written the majority of the album before any of us was signed, so it was very much an organic process and it was just the two of us working on it without anyone. I remember when we were taking demos around the industry trying to get a deal, we had ’7 Days,’ ‘Walking Away,’ ‘Time to Party’ and others and those ended up being the final versions of the album."