Thomas Hull, who is better known by his stage name, Kid Harpoon, has been responsible for some of the most popular songs of this century. He has written and produced hit songs for stars such as Harry Styles, Lizzo, Florence + the Machine and David Byrne. Hull was named Abbey Road Studios’ first producer in residence. He’s also won two Grammys and a BRIT Award, and he produced Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” — the first song to break one billionMilliarde(n)billion streams on Spotify, in 2023. He also co-wrote and co-produced the song “As It Was”, by Harry Styles, Spotify’s most-streamed song of 2022.
His work with Styles come aboutzustande kommencame about coincidentallyzufälligcoincidentally. “Harry lives round the corner from me in LA and, one day, he wanted a lifthier: Mitfahrgelegenheitlift somewhere, so I pop up (ifml.)auftauchenpopped up there, and he was getting out of the shower,” Hull says. “I started playing piano while I was waiting for him, he was singing and, in an hour, we had written ‘Falling’.”
Shortly after the releaseVeröffentlichungrelease of Style’s album Harry’s House, in 2022, Hull began going to therapy. “I live in a town where everyone has a therapist, but I’d never really thought about it,” he told The New York Times. Hull explained that, despite his success, he had “a lot of existential questions, like, ‘Why am I doing it?’” He has also had struggles with the music industry itself. “There’s so much ego needed to make music,” he told Music Week. “I’d like to [prove] that if you just work hard, be good to people, then you can achieve all those things that anyone else could. What’s been a bit of a battle for me is, I’m kind of a mellowgelassen, umgänglichmellow, chilled (ifml.)entspanntchilled guy, not necessarily the big alpha, ‘Do this, do that!’ — and a lot of the big music people are.”
I’m not the big alpha, 'Do this, do that!’
From the UK to the US
Born in Chatham, Kent, in the south-east of England, Hull started playing the guitar when he was ten years old. In his 20s, he moved to London and performed as a guitarist with a number of bands, establishing himself as a musician for for hirezur Verfügung stehend; hier: als Auftragsmusiker( in)hire. “As part of the music scene in the UK, I toured with Dizzee Rascal, Adele, Florence [Welch] and others,” he told Sound on Sound magazine. His experience with Welch launch sb.jmdn. lancieren, jmdm. einen Start ermöglichenlaunched him into the world of music production.
He began using the name Kid Harpoon, which he took from a short story he’d written. Soon, he moved from playing other people’s music to writing his own songs — a change that has led to great success. He moved to Los Angeles, and there, he became a star, working with the big gun (ifml.)hier: hohes Tier, einflussreiche Personbig guns.
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