Scott Harris is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for writing songs for several Shawn Mendes albums, one of which was Enlighten , released September 23, 2016. He wrote 10 songs for it, including its lead single, Treat Yourself Better , which peaked at #3 on US Mainstream Top 40 chart. He was also behind the hit Nothing Holds Me Back which reached number 1 on the same chart. Scott has also worked on 2 other Shawn Mendes albums – Handwritten (2015), his debut album which reached #1 on Billboard 200chart, as well as 13 songs on his 3rd self-titled Shawn Mendes (2018) album , which also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Scott was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2019 in the Song of the Year category for Shawn Mendes In My Blood and won a Grammy Award for takedown Don’t Let Me Down performed by The Chainsmokers, which peaked at #1 on US Mainstream -Top 40 Graphic in 2016. In addition, he has worked as a songwriter for well-known singers and artists such as X Ambassadors, Quinn XCII, Bebe Rexha, Jessie J., DJ Tiesto, Jon Bellion and others. One of his most notable credits as a songwriter was Noah Kahan’s single entitled Hurt Someone which achieved 2x Platinum status in Australia.

Born name

Scott Harris Friedman

nickname

Scott

Alter

He was born on September 15th.

Sun sign

Virgo

Place of birth

New York, United States

Residence

Brooklyn, New York, United States

nationality

training

Its educational history is unknown.

occupation

Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, singer

family

• Father – Unknown (Jazz Piano Player)
• mother – unknown
• Siblings – Diane Hollender (Older Sister)

Manager

He has been represented by Rebel One’s management in the past.

Genre

Pop Rock, Pop, Alternativer Pop, Progressiver House, Electro House, Trap

instruments

vocals, guitar, piano

labels

He has not yet been signed by a record label.

To build

Slim

Height

185,5 cm

weight

75 kg or 165.5 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Scott Harris dated –

1. Rachel Brown (2014-Present) – Their relationship traceable to early 2014 judging by Scott and her social media. The couple enjoys traveling around the United States and got married in late 2015 or early 2016.

race/ethnicity

White

He is of American descent.

hair colour

dark brown

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Slim physique
• Facial hair with stubble
• Tattoo on biceps
• Often wears sunglasses

brand promotion

Scott hasn’t done any endorsement work for any brand yet.

Known for

• As a songwriter for Shawn Mendes throughout since his debut albums, Handwritten (2015) Illuminating (2016) , and Shawn Mendes (2018)
• A. Won a 2016 Grammy Award for co-writing The Chainsmokers song Don’t Let Me Down
• Nominated for a Grammy Award in 2019 for co-writing Shawn Mendes’ song In My Blood
• Writing songs by popular artists such as Bebe Rehxa, Jessie J, Quinn XCII, DJ Tiesto and others

As a singer

He formed a band called the Scott Haris Project with friend Teddy Geiger, with whom he later collaborated to write songs for Shawn Mendes. Scott later gave up his singing career because he preferred the freedom of songwriting.

As a songwriter

He wrote the song Party Like You Are Single in the Miles and Miles album for Stephen Jerzak in 2011. He also worked on the songs like Pass the Love On , I’m Not Done Yet , Villa , Do It Right , etc.

Scott Harris favorite things

• Activity – travelling, writing music, playing guitar
• Sport – Basketball
• Sports Team – The Knicks
• Basketball Player – Shaquille O’Neal

Scott Harris Facts

1. He started playing the piano when he was 4 years old.
2. Scott picked up a guitar and began practicing when he was about 14 years old. At first he only knew three chords and started writing pop-style songs without lyrics.
3. He studied the Place for Places album by John Mayer when he was a beginner, which gave him the courage and skill to write his own songs.
4. His first cut by a record label was a song he wrote with The Beats and Stephen Jerzak, named Miles and Miles for Stephen’s debut single on Universal Records in 2011 .
5. After writing the 1st song for Shawn Mendes called Life of the Party that went number 1 on iTunes overnight they just clicked and wrote songs together and became such good friends.
6. Scott said that he has great chemistry with Shawn and that he is the most sincere and sincere human being, but also very talented. He was still learning guitar when they met and after 3 months Shawn got really good at it.
7. Scott and Shawn misspelled a song The Weight from the Handwritten (2015) album entirely over a Skype call session.
8. His father died on June 23, 2016 as a result of an illness. Scott said it inspired him to even think about writing a song since his father had been writing jazz music his entire life.
9. After his father’s death, he tattooed a hand glider that flew through the air on his biceps, inspired by the song his father was playing.
10. He and Shawn wrote a song called Hold On , which was inspired by Shawn’s father, but occurred at the time, Scott’s father was ill. Shawn performed the song at a show after his father passed away and it made Scott realize just how important that particular songwriting session was to him.
11. One of his greatest achievements was winning the 2016 Grammy Award for The Chainsmokers hit song Don’t Let Me Down. He co-wrote it with the band’s Emily Warren and AndrewTaggart. Scott said he loves texting with Emily as they are great friends and spend a lot of time together. The song had a beginning in Andrew’s idea of ​​a melody. He played the beginning of it in his apartment, whereupon the trio developed a hit from it, which became it.
12. He hadn’t grown up around pop music.
13. In 2014, he collaborated with Jessie J on her I’m Not Done Yet song from her album titled Sweet Talker as well as singer Niykee Heaton on her Villa song from the Bad Intentions album.
14. 2015 was marked by his songwriting for Shawn’s debut album, Handwritten as well as the Sabrina Carpenter song White Flag along with Melanie Martinez ‘s Tag It’s You hit song.
15. In 2016, Scott collaborated with rapper Skizzy Mars on his song Girl on a Train , as well as Naughty Boy, Kyla and Popcaan on their Should Have Been song, among others. The next year, he worked with Alessia Cara on her version of the song The Other Side .
16. 2018 was one of the busiest and most productive for Scott Harris – writing songs for Jason Mraz, Era Istrefi, Chromeo, Anne-Marie as well as the song Cool for a collaboration between Felix Jaehn, Marc E. Bassy and Gucci Mane. He has also worked with Max Frost, Michael Buble, Gnash and Jonas Blue.
17. The first CDs Scott bought were The Score from the Refugees, Under the Table by Dave Matthews Band and Dookie to Green Day.
18. His 1st volume was named Ebbe and he made it with his 3 best friends from high school. They were 15 at the time, ate McDonald’s food, smoked weed and covered 182 of the band’s songs to Blink . They produced an album in Scott’s basement and burned it on CD-R burners to sell locally.
19. Scott said he doesn’t have a definite time to write a song. He also claimed some took as little as 2 hours, while others were made in a week’s time with an artist, in both a professional and home-built recording studio.
20. In early 2019, Scott was credited as songwriter for Matt Simons’ single Tough Julia Michaels’ duet with Selena Gomez named Fear and Ally Brooke’s song Low Key with rapper Tyga.
21. On February 20, 2019, the song he wrote for Pink titled Go Home Me was released to praise from audiences.
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