Adonis Shropshire

Taurian Adonis Shropshire is an American songwriter and record producer.

Beginning his career in 2001, Shropshire has written or produced hit singles for various artists, including Mariah Carey's "I Stay In Love", Usher's "My Boo", P. Diddy's "I Need a Girl (Part One)", "I Need a Girl (Part Two)", Chris Brown's "Say Goodbye", Ciara's "And I", Marques Houston's "Circle", Day26's "Since You've Been Gone", Enrique Iglesias's "Push", Ginuwine's "Last Chance", Beyoncé's "Summertime", and Lee Taemin's "Play Me". He received his first formal credit on Jennifer Lopez's 2001 single "Walking On Sunshine". He has won three Grammy Awards from 17 nominations.

History Adonis Shropshire was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he attended the Chattanooga Phoenix III High School for the Performing Arts. While in middle school, he met Usher Raymond IV (the two would later form a group before Raymond's move to Atlanta). While frequenting a local studio he learned the art of creating songs, music production, using audio equipment, recording, as well as structuring and writing lyric melody. Currently Adonis is the CEO, and Founder of Beatstreet, Inc.

While having a friendship with R&B trio Blaque, he would travel to various recording sessions with them. Natina Reed and her former Blaque group member Shamari Fears, noticed a particular talent he had for producing vocals and allowed him to contribute in the studio. These sessions were his first "real" recording sessions, which consisted of helping vocal produce three songs for the group's debut album.

In 1997, he moved back to Atlanta to pursue his dream of breaking into the music industry. While in a local singing group he was introduced to Rowdy Records executive Kirk Woods, who would later become his manager. When the group disbanded in 2000, he started writing songs for other recording artists. This prompted his manager to set up a meeting with producer Sean Combs. While in New York, Shropshire worked on Jennifer Lopez's 2001 album J.Lo. This was Shropshire' first songwriting credit. Soon after Combs signed Shropshire to his publishing venture with EMI as part of his in-house production team the Hitmen." He then began working on songs for Faith Evans, Carl Thomas, 112, Cheri Dennis, Beyoncé, Usher, B2K, and Ciara.

His affiliation with Bad Boy led to him working with Noontime (which had a co-management deal with Bad Boy). This work resulted in him meeting Bryan-Michael Cox. Adonis's relationship with Cox soon had him producing and writing for Chris Brown, Nicole Scherzinger, Mariah Carey and Gwen Stefani. Although prior to working with Cox, Adonis had written and produced an extensive body of work (including Hot 100 #1 hits such as Usher's "My Boo") in addition to Combs's "I Need a Girl (Part One)" and "I Need a Girl (Part Two)" and two Grammy Awards (for work on albums by Carey and Usher), Chris Brown's "Say Goodbye" marked his first Hot R&B Chart #1 hit with Cox.

In 2014 Adonis began working with Kristinia DeBarge on her third studio album. On January 5, 2015, he and DeBarge started releasing new music exclusively through YouTube. She entitled the project "New Music Mondays".

Selected production and writing credits DateArtistSong Album Label2001 Jennifer Lopez "Walking on Sunshine" J. Lo Epic Records P. Diddy & the Bad Boy Family "Ride wit Me" The Saga Continues... Bad Boy Records Faith Evans "Don't Cry" Faithfully Bad Boy Records Jennifer Lopez "Walking on Sunshine (Metro Remix)"J to tha L-O! The Remixes Epic Records Dream "This Is Me (Remix)" Totally Hits Arista2002 Keith Sweat "Trust Me" Rebirth Elektra RecordsP. Diddy "I Need a Girl (Part One)" (featuring Usher and Loon)We Invented The Remix: Volume 1Bad Boy Records "I Need a Girl (Part Two)"

Grammy Awards and nominations The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. Adonis has received 3 awards from 17 nominations.