Philip Lawrence

ABOUT PHILIP LAWRENCE

Famous as one third of the multi-Grammy-nominated Smeezingtons music production team, this songwriter and lyricist, along with his collaborators Ari Levine and Bruno Mars , has produced tracks for B.o.B. , Travie McCoy , and CeeLo Green .

He began performing when he was just four years old and started writing songs during his teen years.

In 2013, he released a solo album titled Letters I Never Sent.

The son of a gospel choir director and a DJ, he grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and later settled in Los Angeles, California, where he raised children named Zaima, Zadeh, and Zahlia with his wife Urbana.

He co-wrote the Matisyahu hit "One Day," which rose to #1 on Israeli music charts and also secured a spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.