Ki Fitzgerald

Ki McPhail (born 25 September 1987), commonly known as Ki Fitzgerald or KiFi, is an English Multi platinum musician, singer, songwriter and music producer based in London and spain. He has written/produced and sung on several top 10 Singles and Top 10 Albums and was a founding member of the English pop rock band Busted from 2000 to 2001.[2]KiFi is also the feature vocalist on Don Diablo's single The Same way/Hardwell's Single Shine a Light and Armin Van burren's Turn It Up

Ki Fitzgerald
Background information
Birth nameKi McPhail
Also known asKiFi/KiFitzgerald
Born (1987-09-25) 25 September 1987
Rotterdam, Netherlands
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
Years active2000–present
Associated acts

Early life

Ki was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands to British parents on 25 September 1987 but moved at 6 years old and grew up in Kent, England. His father is the singer Scott Fitzgerald, who had an international hit with "If I Had Words" which was also the theme to the Hollywood Movie Babe. He also performed the song "Go" that represented the United Kingdom at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest where he lost to Celine Dion by one point. In the year 2000, Ki Fitzgerald assembled and was a member of UK group Busted.

Career

Fitzgerald later formed the band Eyes Wide Open and signed a publishing deal with Music Copyright Solutions.[3] The band toured the UK after making their debut at the GWR Fiesta to an audience of 40,000 people. They later played multiple shows including Supporting Blondie at London’s famous Venue Koko. The band members consisted of: Ki (vocals and guitar), Tom Warner (lead guitar), TK (bass guitar) and Pat Garvery (drums) and Will Farquarson (Guitar) who went on to become a member of Band Bastille. The band made many appearances at festivals performing tracks "Bitter Sweet" and "By Your Side" receiving praise from BBC Radio Kent who said that Eyes Wide Open's "songs and production are really strong" and were considered to be "far more the real Ki...than his original Busted material".[4] The band broke up whilst in the process of recording their debut album with producer Steve Lironi (Bon Jovi) and Grammy award-winning mixer Simon Gogerly.[5]

In 2015 he signed an Artist deal with producer RedOne and his label 2101/capital records to develop his own album and to Join Redone's writing group Team Red. The first release with Dutch DJ duo Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano was the song Come Follow with vocals from KiFi. Released through Spinnin' Records 13 February 2015. Fitzgerald has been featured Vocalist on many EDM songs, including the single "Shine a Light" by Hardwell and Wildstylez, Steal the moon by DubVision, Best part of me by Firebeatz and Dubvision, the Headhunterz single "Into the Sunset" which was featured on Ellen DeGeneres, Dancing with the Stars and up coming releases with Armin Van Buren,Dash Berlin many more. KiFi has streamed well over 100 million streams just on Spotify with his feature vocals.

Songwriting and music production

In October 2011, Fitzgerald signed with Global Talent Publishing to focus on songwriting for other artists. Since then Fitzgerald has fast become a successful songwriter and producer for a diverse group of artists such as Galantis, Lawson, The Wanted, Jonas Brothers, B.o.B, Alex Hepburn, and Pitbull.

He is credited with having written 4 top 10 singles with UK band Lawson, including the releases "When She Was Mine" (UK No.4) "Standing in the Dark" (UK No.6) "Broken Hearted" featuring USA rapper B.o.B (Uk No.6) and final single Roads. Fitzgerald also contributed to the album tracks "Stolen" and "Everywhere You Go", "Die for You", "Getting Nowhere", "Hurts Like You", "Are You Ready", and "Back to Life", which featured on Lawson's top 10 debut album Chapman Square and "Chapman Square – Special Edition (Chapter II).

Fitzgerald worked on the 3rd and final Album from the Wanted which featured two co writes Summer Alive and Heart Break Story.

Co wrote the debut single by Sophia Del Carmen ft Pitbull "Lipstick" with Super producer Redone.

Lawson's highly anticipated follow-up album Perspective, Fitzgerald Co-Wrote 11 songs including singles Money Under the Sun and was released June 2016

He co-wrote and co produced the Singles ''Hunter'' for Galantis with over a 130 million Spotify streams to date and Madcon's "Got a little drunk".

Most recently co wrote Galantis latest single "San Francisco" featuring Sofia Carson. Fitzgerald wrote the New single from Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and Wiz Khalifa When I grow Up. He also collaborated on the new single from Sweater Beats and Icona Pop, Faded.

co-wrote Monsters for Saara Aalto for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, where she represented Finland. Fitzgerald attended the Eurovision contest in Lisbon with Ms Aalto.

Co wrote and vocals on Armin Van Buuren's single Turn it up released March 14th 2019

References
  1. "Ki Fitzgerald". oneone7.com. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  2. #ki-fitzgerald "Ki Fitzgerald" Check |url= value (help). thisisglobal.com. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  3. "MCS Music sign former Busted singer". musicweek.com. 5 January 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  4. "Kent unsigned: Eyes Wide Open". BBC Kent. 2 September 2005. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  5. "Music Copyright Solutions announces exclusive music publishing agreement with Eyes Wide Open" (Press release). Music Copyright Solutions. 5 January 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
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