Guy Erez

Guy Erez is a Los Angeles–based songwriter, producer, composer and bass player. Born and raised in Israel, Erez moved to Los Angeles in 1992. His songs have appeared in hit movies and TV shows including the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film Crash, Grey's Anatomy and Beverly Hills 90210. He is a songwriter and producer on the theme to the Marvel/Disney series The Avengers, and his composer credits include NASA's official video that they released leading up to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. He has also worked with artists such as Gipsy Kings, Jason Mraz, Kenny Loggins, Miley Cyrus, Ziggy Marley

Songwriting and producing

One of Erez's first hit songs was BareNaked by Jennifer Love Hewitt, which he co-wrote with Meredith Brooks. The song made the Billboard Top 40 charts in 2002. This brought attention to Chrysalis Music, who signed him to a publishing deal, adding him to their roster of staff songwriters. During this time period, he also wrote and produced songs with artists including Holly Palmer and P.J. Olsson, garnering him another Billboard Top 40 hit with the Ryan Cabrera single "Shine On" for Atlantic Records. Erez also contributed as both songwriter and producer for the title track "Shine" from the second solo album by Sam Bettens of K's Choice fame and The Gipsy Kings' Live at Kenwood House in London DVD released in 2006. He also co-wrote two recent Alan Parsons singles with Parsons and P.J. Olsson, "Fragile", and "Do you Live at All".

Film and TV work

Erez has songs in over 100 films and TV shows. His entre into TV was with a song called "Boom da Boom," and as composer on Marvel's Adaptive Audio Digital Comic, "Captain America, Winter Soldier." Erez more recently was the composer for the Emmy winning ABC television series Sea Rescue and the Emmy nominated TV series The Wildlife Docs. 2019 found Erez writing and producing a series of songs for the successful Netflix Original series, Super Monsters.

Bass player

Erez regularly works playing bass as a session musician. He taught bass playing at Los Angeles Music Academy from 1996 to 2001. His prolific bass performances can be heard in recordings such as the Florence & the Machine theme to Dragon Age II, Ziggy Marley's Grammy-winning album, "Fly Rasta" and the Miley Cyrus song "Hands of Love." Since 2010 Erez has been touring in the band Alan Parsons Live Project as the bass player. He shared the bill in that time period with acts such as Simple Minds, Earth Wind & Fire and David Pack from Ambrosia. Other Legendary artists Erez has performed in concert with include: Michael McDonald, Joe Bonamassa, Al Stewart and Steve Vai, to name a few.

Recent work

Erez is currently songwriting with Alan Parsons and co-wrote Parsons' singles "Fragile," "Do you Live at All," and "Miracle." He regularly writes, produces and plays bass for bands and artists such as Kina Grannis, Karmina, Right the Stars and his most recent project Yacht Life. Erez also continues to score music for companies like EA, Marvel and Disney on projects such as Marvel's 2014 Captain America Interactive Audio Digital Comic, and TV shows including the Emmy winning ABC television series Sea Rescue and Emmy nominated The Wildlife Docs. He also composed music for The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exhibition “Path to Cinema,” which was on display at the museum from 2021 until 2024.

Selected discography

Year Album Artist Credit 1998 Power Rangers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Bass 2000 Kina Kina Bass 2000 True North Fisher Bass 2002 BareNaked Jennifer Love Hewitt Composer 2003 Girlʼs Night Out Vol 2 Various Artists Composer 2004 Just So You Know Holly Palmer Composer/Producer 2004 Billy Miles Billy Miles Producer/Composer/Bass/Keyboards 2005 Music From and inspired by the Academy Award-winning Movie Crash Original Motion Picture soundtrack Producer 2005 Scream Sam Bettens Composer 2005 You Stand Watching Ryan Cabrera Composer 2005 Beautifully Insane P.J. Olsson Bass/Composer/Producer/Programming/Mixing 2005 Lost Art of the Idle Moment Carmen Rizzo Bass 2005 Pax Romana xxv Brother Producer/Composer/Keyboards/Programming/Mixing/Engineer 2006 Where's Neil When You Need Him? Neil Gaiman Bass 2006 N Soundtrack Various Artists Composer 2007 To Infinity MissFlag Producer 2007 My Dear New Years Day Composer 2007 American Scream P.J. Olsson Bass/Mixing/Producer/Guitar 2007 Shine Sam Bettens Composer 2008 Backwards into Beauty Karmina Producer/Bass/Guitar/Keyboards/Programming/Mixing 2008 Turn To Stone Becca Composer 2009 Never Say Goodbye Sam Bettens Producer/Composer/Mixing 2009 Everything You Need Manda Mosher Producer/Composer/Bass/ Acoustic Guitar/Vocal 2009 Eternal Huun-Huur-Tu Fretless Bass 2010 Stairwells Kina Grannis Bass 2011 My Star Marina V Producer/Bass/Guitar/Additional Keyboards/Programming/Mixing/Editing 2014 Fly Rasta Ziggy Marley Bass 2015 Hands of Love Miley Cyrus Bass 2016 Live in Columbia Alan Parsons Bass/ Vocals/ Band Member 2019 The Secret Alan Parsons Bass/ Composer/ Double Bass 2022 From the New World Alan Parsons Bass/ Composer Main source for discography: