Nina Woodford


Nina Woodford-Wells is a Swedish/American song writer.

Career

Nina Woodford Stockholm, is the daughter of the Swedish music producer Sten Sandahl, and the Afro-American social anthropologist Prudence Woodford-Berger. At the age of 16, she began her career singing backing vocals for Swedish artists Eric Gadd, Titiyo, and The Navigators. She also featured on the Britney Spears album Oops!... I Did It Again. By the age of 20 she had a publishing deal as a songwriter with Murlyn Music in Stockholm.
At age 25, Woodford moved to London. Nina wrote the European Hot 100 #1 smash hit, Broken Strings, by James Morrison from his album Songs for You, Truths for Me. The song is the biggest single of Morrison's career and is a duet with Canadian pop/R&B singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. Nina co-wrote the theme song for the 2019 Special Olympics held in Abu Dhabi, titled "Right Where I'm Supposed To Be". She has also written for Leona Lewis, Idina Menzel, Tom Jones, Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Christina Milian, The Saturdays, and Jay Sean. Woodford noted that Kate Bush "makes me feel free to dare to try different things. There are very few women who write that kind of direct poetry".

Personal life

Nina grew up in Stockholm's Södermalm borough. Today she lives in Los Angeles and is married to record producer Greg Wells.

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