Америкалық ән жазушы және продюсер Брайан Майкл Пол Кокс

American songwriter

Bryan Michael Paul Cox (born December 1, 1977) is an American record producer and songwriter, known for his work with artists such as Usher, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, and Toni Braxton. His most notable productions are "Be Without You" for Mary J. Blige, "Burn", "Confessions Part II" and "U Got It Bad" for Usher, and "Shake It Off", "I Stay In Love" and "You Don't Know What To Do" for Mariah Carey. While attending High School in Texas, Cox was acquainted with singer Beyoncé. He produced records for the members of Destiny's Child, prior to their signing with Columbia Records. Cox relocated to Atlanta to pursue his professional music career. He then established a close affiliation with Jermaine Dupri 2000, who would become his production partner in the following years. Cox attained a Guinness World Records for the longest consecutive period of chart success by spending over 5 consecutive years there, breaking the record that was previously held by The Beatles. In 2009, Cox was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame for his contribution to music.

Cox has said that his mother played the flute: "My mom would buy music instead of food when I was little. We would spend her entire pay check at the record store." He expressed his musical ambitions to her when he was seven years old, having written his first song when he was just six years old. Later, he enrolled in Houston's Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In high school, Cox met Beyoncé when he was a senior and she was a freshman. He recorded his first ever demo tape with her. Although the two wouldn't reconnect until nearly seven years later when Bryan produced a track on Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled, it was the early confirmation from Mathew Knowles that prompted Bryan to go into the music industry. "Back then there was three choices if you wanted to be in the music industry, live in New York, LA, or Atlanta. I enrolled in Clark Atlanta University because although my Mom supported my dreams one hundred percent I had to go to college, so I chose Clark because I was just trying to get to Atlanta."

Cox began his career as an intern at Noontime Records in Atlanta, Georgia. He was discovered by his manager Chris Hicks, who was a partner in Noontime. Cox's first two hit singles as a producer were "Get Gone" & "Creep Inn" for the short lived R&B group Ideal.

Cox contributed to Lil Bow Wow's debut album, Beware of Dog, writing the single "Puppy Love" and the Big Momma's House soundtrack. He worked with Jagged Edge's second studio album J. E. Heartbreak, contributing to songs "He Can't Love U" and "Let's Get Married". He contributed to Tamar Braxton's debut album, Tamar co writing and producing "Get None" with musical partner Jermaine Dupri. He wrote and co produced the second single "Just Be a Man About It" from Toni Braxton's third studio album, The Heat. and, as of 2012, has sold 10.3 million copies in the United States. It has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. He worked with Mariah Carey again on 2005's The Emancipation of Mimi with hits "Shake It Off" and "Don't Forget About Us". "Don't Forget About Us" was nominated for two Grammy Awards. He wrote the fourth single from Chris Brown's self titled debut album "Say Goodbye". He co wrote "Be Without You" the lead single from Mary J. Blige seventh studio album The Breakthrough. The single was certified double platinum in the United States, was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and won the Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance categories at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

Cox co wrote "Shortie Like Mine" the first single for Bow Wow's fifth studio album, The Price of Fame, in 2006. Again working with Austin together the duo co wrote "Stay Down" for Mary J. Blige's eighth studio album, Growing Pains in 2007. Cox co wrote "Last Time" for Trey Songz's second studio album Trey Day. Cox produced and co wrote "Circles", the third single from Marques Houston's Veteran album. In 2008, he wrote five songs for the group Day26's self tiled debut album, including the second single, "Since You've Been Gone".

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Heartbreak 2"Future""Getting Over You""Hope""It's Been You"Producer"Love Come Down"Writer & producer"Make It Clear""Ready""Things I Do For You""Wanna Be (Romeo)"ProducerJoe2007"Feel for You"Writer & producerAin't Nothin' Like Me"Go Hard""My Love""Run It Back""You Should Know Me"Producer2008"By Any Means"Writer & producerJoe Thomas, New Man"Man In Your Life""I Won't Let Him Hurt You""We Need to Roll"Justin Bieber2010"Never Let You Go"Writer & producerMy World 2.0Kehlani2017"Personal" (sample "Come Over")WriterSweetSexySavage2020"Can I" (sample "Come Over")WriterIt Was Good Until It Wasn'tKeyshia Cole2007"Was It Worth It? "Writer & producerJust like YouLil' Mo2003"4Ever"Writer & producerMeet the Girl Next Door2007"Heartbeat"Pain & PaperMariah Carey1999"How Much"Writer & producerRainbow2002"Miss You"Writer & producerCharmbracelet"The One""You Had Your Chance"2005"Get Your Number"Writer & producerThe Emancipation of Mimi"Shake It Off"Writer"Don't Forget About Us"Writer & producerThe Emancipation of Mimi (Deluxe Edition)"Makin' It Last All Night (What It Do)"Writer2008"For the Record"Writer & producerE=MC²"I Stay In Love""4real4real" (featuring Da Brat)2010"Oh Santa! "Writer & producerMerry Christmas II You2014"Heavenly (No Ways Tired / Can't Give Up Now)"ProducerMe. I Am Mariah The Elusive Chanteuse"Make It Look Good"Writer & producer"One More Try"Producer"Supernatural"Writer & producer"You Don't Know What To Do"Writer & producerMarques Houston2007"Circle"Writer & producerVeteran"Exclusively"Mary J. Blige2005"Ain't Really Love"Writer & producerThe Breakthrough"Be Without You"2006"Reflections (I Remember)"Reflections (A Retrospective)"We Ride (I See the Future)"2007"If You Love Me? "Growing Pains"Stay Down"2009"We Got Hood Love"Stronger with Each TearMonica2002"I'm Back"Writer & producerAll Eyez on Me"If U Were the Girl"Writer & producer"Searchin"Producer"Too Hood"Writer & producer"U Should've Known Better"Writer & producer2006"Hell No (Leave Home)"Writer & producerThe Makings of Me2010"Lesson Learned"Writer & producerStill Standing"Love All Over Me""Still Standing""Superman"2012"Amazing"New LifeNivea2001"Don't Mess with My Man"Writer & producerNivea2005"Parking Lot"ComplicatedOmarion2006"Just Can't Let You Go"Writer & producer21"Made For TV"Tamar Braxton2000"Get None"Writer & producerTamar2013"Pieces"Love and War"Where It Hurts"Tamia2004"Still"Writer & producerMoreToni Braxton2000"Just Be a Man About It"Writer & producerThe Heat2005"Trippin' (That's the Way Love Works)"Libra"What's Good"Trey Songz2007"Last Time"Writer & producerTrey Day2009"One Love"ReadyTyrese2001"Off the Heezy"Writer & producer2000 Watts2002"Somebody Special"I Wanna Go There2006"Gotta Get You"Alter EgoUsher2001"Good Ol' Ghetto"Writer & producer8701"If I Want To""I Can't Let U Go""T. T. P.""U Got It Bad""U Turn"2004"Burn"Writer & producerConfessions"Confessions Part I""Confessions Part II""Do It to Me"2008"Before I Met You"Writer & producerHere I Stand2010"Foolin' Around"Writer & producerRaymond v. Raymond2019"Don't Waste My Time"Writer & producerConfession 2