Nina Woodford

Nina Woodford-Wells is a Swedish-American songwriter.

Career Nina Woodford (born 13 July 1979) Stockholm, is the daughter of the Swedish music producer Sten Sandahl, and the Black 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.

She has also written for Leona Lewis, Idina Menzel, Tom Jones, Sugababes, The Saturdays, and Jay Sean.

Woodford noted that Kate Bush "makes me feel free to dare to try different things.".

Personal life Nina grew up in Stockholm's Södermalm borough. Today she lives in Los Angeles and is married to record producer Greg Wells. They lost their home in January 2025 during the Palisades Fire.

Honours In 2010, Woodford was awarded the SKAP Stipendium by the Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers (SKAP), an organization dedicated to supporting Swedish popular music creators.

The award was presented at SKAP's ceremonial event on 6 December 2010 at F12 Salongen in Stockholm.

Also in 2010, Woodford was nominated at the Ivor Novello Awards for Most Performed Work category for "Broken Strings," performed by James Morrison featuring Nelly Furtado.