Steve Chrisanthou

Steve Chrisanthou is a British songwriter, music producer, and recording engineer. He is a Grammy Award, Ivor Novello Award and Brit Award nominee, and a MOBO Award winner for co-writing the song "Put Your Records On" with John Beck and Corinne Bailey Rae. In 2008, Chrisanthou won a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences award for his vocal engineering on River: The Joni Letters, a Grammy Award-winning album by Herbie Hancock.

Chrisanthou was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England on 21 January 1967 to a Greek Cypriot father George and English mother Rosemary, he had 3 siblings, Melinda, Danny and David & 5 maternal cousins, Karen, Allyson, Vanessa, Michael & Gillian. He started playing guitar at the age of nine. Chrisanthou played guitar in various local bands and did session work from the age of fourteen. Whilst at Pollard Park middle school, Chrisanthou became noted for his football skills.

Chrisanthou married award-winning wildlife artist Stella Mays in 2005. They have two children, one named Edward and another called Archie who both do bike riding for hobbies, also has a child to a previous partner. He is based in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire, England.

Chrisanthou began his production career around 1998 with a number of local artists and eventually signed a production/publishing agreement to Goodgroove Songs in 2004. Goodgroove is part-owned by ex-BBC Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies.

Fellow Bradfordian songwriter/producer John Beck introduced Chrisanthou to Corinne Bailey Rae, and they began to write and demo material for her debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae. It was released in February 2006 by EMI. The first single from the album, "Put Your Records On", released in 2006, was co-written with Beck and Bailey Rae and produced by Chrisanthou with additional production from Jimmy Hogarth. The single went on to sell over one million copies. The follow-up single Trouble Sleeping was also written by the same personnel and achieved Top 40 in the UK in 2006. The album eventually went on to sell over four million copies worldwide. It was nominated for many international awards, including a Grammy and won a MOBO. In 2007 "Put Your Records On" won an ASCAP Award for 'Song Of The Year'. Songs from the first album were also featured in the 2006 film Venus (film).

In 2005, John Beck (songwriter) and Chrisanthou, along with writer Charles Hutchinson, wrote "Show A Little Faith" which appeared on the Charlotte Church album, Tissues and Issues.

In 2007, Chrisanthou recorded "River" with Corinne Bailey Rae for Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters.

Chrisanthou produced four tracks on Bailey Rae's second album The Sea released in January 2010. The album was nominated for a Mercury Prize.