Birth name Sandy Julien Wilhelm Name Sandy Vee | Years active 2001–present | |
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Born 22 April 1975 (age 49) ( 1975-04-22 ) Role Music Producer · twitter.com/sandyveenyc Awards Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording Similar People Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Ester Dean | ||
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Sandy Julien Wilhelm (born 22 April 1975) better known by his stage name Sandy Vee, is a French music producer and songwriter. He gained much commercial and critical recognition for co-producing Rihanna’s "Only Girl (In the World)", Katy Perry's “Firework”, and 8 songs on the David Guetta album One Love. He originally played bass in a variety of jazz, rock, and punk bands before gaining exposure to the underground DJ scene in France. He currently resides in New York City.
Contents
- Stargate Share Advice at ASCAP New York Sessions
- Early Success
- Recent Work
- Number One Records
- Grammy Nominations and Awards
- References
Sandy Vee won the Best Dance Recording at the 2011 Grammy Awards for Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)". He was also nominated in the category Album of the Year for Katy Perry's Teenage Dream.
Early Success
Vee was DJing at the “Fuck Me I'm Famous” party at Pacha Ibiza when David Guetta approached him after a set and told him how much he loved his track Bleep. The two producers bonded and went into the studio to produce the song that would eventually become “On The Dancefloor” for will.i.am. However, according to Vee, “we discovered that not only did we work well together, but we worked fast... We figured there was no reason to stop, so we just kept going.” This led to Vee co-producing 8 songs on Guetta’s globally successful record One Love.
Recent Work
After the success with One Love, Vee became a desired name on the pop production circuit. Sandy went on to work with Norwegian production duo Stargate, who Sandy described their initial meeting in 2009 as: “I played them a few tunes I was working on at the time and they went crazy for one in particular...so we worked together and finished it”. The first track the group worked on was eventually placed with Sean Kingston.
Stargate and Vee continued to work together, producing hits for Katy Perry ("Firework"), Rihanna ("Only Girl (In the World)" “S&M”) and Ne-Yo (“Beautiful Monster”), Britney Spears (“Selfish”), and more. Sandy currently lives in New York where he has since his production credits increase exponentially with credits on records for Taio Cruz, Pitbull, Selena Gomez, Nikki Williams.
Number One Records
2009: David Guetta feat. Akon - "Sexy Bitch"
2010: Rihanna - "Only Girl (In the World)"
2010: Katy Perry - "Firework"
2011: Rihanna - "S&M"
Grammy Nominations and Awards
2011: Best Dance Recording, Rihanna - "Only Girl (In the World)" (Won)
2012: Record of the Year, Katy Perry - "Firework" (Nominated)
2012: Album of the Year, Rihanna - "Loud" (Nominated)
2012: Best Dance/Electronica Album, David Guetta - "Nothing But the Beat" (Nominated)