Troy Taylor | |
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| Birth name | Troy Christopher Taylor[1] |
| Born | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| Labels | Songbook Entertainment / Motown |
| Formerly of | The Characters |
Troy Christopher Taylor is an American record producer, singer, and songwriter best known for his production work and mentorship of R&B singer Trey Songz. Taylor is also the CEO of Songbook Entertainment, and has worked extensively with acts including The Isley Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, and Boyz II Men.[2]
Taylor, signed in early 1990 to a solo record deal with Motown, decided to instead explore songwriting and production for other artists, placing records from his unreleased debut album on other projects he was writing for at the time. A portion of the album was eventually released in 2021.[2] In the 1990s/early 2000s, Taylor, alongside Charles Farrar, was a member of The Characters: a production duo that worked on Boyz II Men's Cooleyhighharmony, as well as with Kenny Lattimore.
Discography
Songwriting and production credits
Credits are courtesy of Discogs, Spotify, and AllMusic.[5]
| Title | Year | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Every Little Thing About You" | 1990 | Today | The New Formula |
| "Self Centered" | |||
| "Home Is Where You Belong" | |||
| "Gonna Make You Mine" | |||
| "Little Things" | 1991 | Boyz II Men | Cooleyhighharmony |
| "Your Love" | |||
| "Chivalry" (The Characters Remix) | Babyface | A Closer Look | |
| "I'll Be There For You" | Lateasha | Lateasha | |
| "Mature Love" | Keisha Jackson | Keisha | |
| "All Night Lovin'" | |||
| "All Night Lovin' Interlude" | |||
| "Step by Step (Gonna Make You Mine)" | 1992 | Wendy Moten | Wendy Moten |
| "Take Me Back to Love Again" | Kathy Sledge | Heart | |
| "I've Gotta Have It" | 3rd Avenue | Let's Talk About Love | |
| "The Minute You Fall In Love" | |||
| "I'm Calling You (Do-Po-Liddle-Lo-Le-Yeah)" | OSCAR | Spotlight | |
| "Just For You" | |||
| "Let Me Make It Better" | |||
| "I'll Be There For You" | |||
| "Spotlight" | |||
| "Keep Touching Me" | |||
| "How I Spend My Time" | |||
| "Give Me A Reason" | |||
| "Just Being With You" | Countess Vaughn | Countess | |
| "Once More" | |||
| "Skyy's The Limit" | Skyy | Nearer To You | |
| "Work It Out" | 1993 | Perfect Gentlemen | The Perfect Gentlemen |
| "Don't Go Nowhere" | Riff | To Whom It May Concern | |
| "Adjust Your Love" | |||
| "Adjust Your Love (Interlude)" | |||
| "Floating | 1994 | Debelah Morgan | Debelah |
| "Jezzebel" | Boyz II Men | II | |
| "(Seek And You'll Find) The Kinda Right Baby" | Groove U | Tender Love | |
| "Old Becomes New" | |||
| "Call And I'll Answer" | |||
| "Pass It Over" | Fourmula | Non-album single | |
| "I Can't Tell You Why" | 1995 | Brownstone | From the Bottom Up |
| "Best Friend" (The Characters R&B Mix featuring Channel Live) | Brandy | Brandy | |
| "I'm Sorry" | Solo | Solo | |
| "My Cherie Amour" | Tony Thompson | Sexsational | |
| "Come Over" | |||
| "Goodbye Eyes" | |||
| "Love Today" | Vertical Hold | Head First | |
| "Love In An Elevator" | 1996 | Johnny Gill | Let's Get the Mood Right |
| "Simply Say I Love U" (Featuring Stevie Wonder) | |||
| "So Gentle" (Featuring Ronnie DeVoe) | |||
| "Get Down Like Dat" | 702 | No Doubt | |
| "No Doubt" | |||
| "Show You My Love" | |||
| "All I Want" | |||
| "Just Let Me Know" | Horace Brown | Horace Brown | |
| "Realize" | Jason Weaver | Stay With Me (Shelved) | |
| "Your Body's Callin'" | Norman Brown | Better Days Ahead | |
| "Facts of Love" | |||
| "Love Like This" (Featuring Lil' Cease) | 1997 | SWV | Release Some Tension |
| "Lose Myself" | |||
| "Here For You" | |||
| "Who Are You" | Shades | Shades | |
| "Tell Me (I'll Be Around)" | |||
| "I Believe" | |||
| "How Deep Is Your Love" | |||
| "Time Will Reveal" | |||
| "All He's Supposed to Be" | Johnny Gill | The 6th Man (soundtrack) | |
| "Jam Knock" | Brian McKnight | Anytime | |
| "Dance Wit Me" (Featuring Doug E. Fresh) | 1998 | Miss Jones | The Other Woman |
| "Smooth" | |||
| "In And Out Of My Life" [6] | Ali | Crucial / Bitter Honey | |
| "Once A Fool" | Destiny's Child & William Floyd | eMusic Presents NFL Jams | |
| "Work It Out" | Boyz II Men & Garrison Hearst | ||
| "Let's Get It Started" | Johnny Gill & Corey Harris | ||
| "Sweet Lady" | 1999 | Tyrese | Tyrese |
| "What'cha Gonna Do" | Eternal | Eternal | |
| "Treat Me Like a Lady" | |||
| "Absent From You" | |||
| "He Is" | |||
| "Never Let You Go Away" | Rome | Thank You (Shelved) | |
| "Do It Like Us" | Rudy | Non-album single | |
| "Come Correct" | 2000 | Before Dark | Daydreamin' |
| "Can We Make Love" | Profyle | Nothin' but Drama | |
| "Candles" | Pru | Pru | |
| "Got Me High" | |||
| "Can't Compare Your Love" | |||
| "Sketches of Pain" | |||
| "Hold On" | L.V. | How Long | |
| "Just Because" | F.A.T.E | For All That's Endured | |
| "Weekend" | 2001 | Kenny Lattimore | Weekend |
| "Baby You're the One" | |||
| "Can You Feel Me" (Featuring Shanice) | |||
| "If Love Is What You Want" | |||
| "Right Down to It" | |||
| "Pretty Girl" | Smash Task | Selections From "The Dirty D.I.S.T.R.I.C.T." | |
| "Crave" [7] | 4Shades | 4Shades | |
| "Unashamed" | 2002 | Whitney Houston | Just Whitney [8] |
| "Christmas Party" (Featuring Treach) | 3LW | Naughty or Nice | |
| "You Can Get It" (Featuring Makeba Riddick) | B2K | Pandemonium! | |
| "Why I Love You" | |||
| "What's Come Over Me?" | Glenn Lewis & Amel Larrieux | Barbershop (soundtrack) | |
| "Baby Girl (Terri's Theme)" | B2K | ||
| "He Couldn't Kiss" | Jhené Aiko | B2K: The Remixes – Volume 1 | |
| "Baby Girl" | B2K | B2K | |
| "You" [9] | Ruff Endz | Someone to Love You | |
| "The Only Thing Missin" [10] | 2003 | Aretha Franklin | So Damn Happy [11] |
| "Holdin' On" | |||
| "No Matter What" (Featuring Mary J. Blige) | |||
| "The First Noel" | Whitney Houston | One Wish: The Holiday Album [12] | |
| "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)" | |||
| "Because of You" | Marques Houston | MH [13] | |
| "Can I Call You" | |||
| "Bedda to Have Loved" | Ginuwine | The Senior [14] | |
| "On My Way"/"Sex (Interlude)" | |||
| "Our First Born" | |||
| "Big Plans" (Featuring Method Man) | |||
| "Do Ya" (With Daniel Bedingfield) | 2004 | Lionel Richie | Just for You |
| "Something More" | Patti LaBelle | Timeless Journey | |
| "Good Lovin" | |||
| "I'm Leaving" | Frankee | The Good, the Bad, the Ugly | |
| "Made It Back" | The O'Jays | Imagination | |
| "Separate Ways" | |||
| "Touch You There" | Gordon Chambers | Introducing... | |
| "Never Fall In Love" | |||
| "Slippin' Away" | |||
| "My Imagination" | |||
| "Always Be Proud" | |||
| "A Message from Aretha" | 2005 | Trey Songz | I Gotta Make It |
| "Gotta Make It" (featuring Twista) | |||
| "Cheat on You" | |||
| "Gotta Go" | |||
| "Ooo" | |||
| "All The Ifs" | |||
| "From a Woman's Hand" | |||
| "Kinda Lovin'" | |||
| "Comin' for You" | |||
| "Just Wanna Cut (Prelude)" | |||
| "Just Wanna Cut" | |||
| "In the Middle" | |||
| "Make Love Tonight" | |||
| "Hatin' Love" | |||
| "Gotta Go (Reprise)" | |||
| "Gotta Make It (Remix)" (Featuring Aretha Franklin & Juvenile) | |||
| "Better Than Gold" | Yolanda Adams | Day by Day | |
| "I Found My Everything" (Featuring Raphael Saadiq) | Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough | |
| "Gotta Go Solo" (Featuring Ronald Isley) | Patti LaBelle | Classic Moments | |
| "Just Came Here to Chill" | 2006 | The Isley Brothers | Baby Makin' Music |
| "Heaven Hooked Us Up" | |||
| "You Help Me Write This Song" | |||
| "Where Love Begins" (Featuring Yolanda Adams) | Patti LaBelle | The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle | |
| "Walking Away" (Featuring CeCe Winans) | |||
| "Long Gone Missin'" | 2007 | Trey Songz | Trey Day |
| "No Clothes On" | |||
| "Wonder Woman" | |||
| "Sex for Yo Stereo" | |||
| "Last Time" | |||
| "Grub On" | |||
| "Role Play" | |||
| "Fades Away" | |||
| "Husband" | Lil' Mo | Pain & Paper | |
| "Can't Bring Me Down" | 2008 | Karina Pasian | First Love |
| "Panty Droppa (Intro)" | 2009 | Trey Songz | Ready [15] |
| "Neighbors Know My Name" | |||
| "Say Aah" (Featuring Fabolous) | |||
| "LOL Smiley Face" (Featuring Gucci Mane & Soulja Boy) | |||
| "Ready to Make Luv" | |||
| "Jupiter Love" | |||
| "Love Lost" | |||
| "Hollalude" | |||
| "Holla If Ya Need Me" | |||
| "Yo Side of the Bed" | |||
| "Scratchin' Me Up" | |||
| "You Belong to Me" | |||
| "Showerlude" | Anticipation | ||
| "You Belong To Me" | |||
| "On Top" | |||
| "Yo Side of the Bed" | |||
| "Here We Go Again (Intro)" | 2010 | Passion, Pain & Pleasure | |
| "Love Faces" | |||
| "Massage" | |||
| "Alone" | |||
| "Pain (Interlude)" | |||
| "Can't Be Friends" | |||
| "Please Return My Call" | |||
| "Made to Be Together" | |||
| "Pleasure (Interlude)" | |||
| "Red Lipstick" | |||
| "Doorbell" | |||
| "You Just Need Me" | |||
| "Panty Droppa (The Complete Edition)" | |||
| "Love Me Better (Here We Go Again Complete Edition)" | |||
| "Hero" | Lyfe Jennings | I Still Believe | |
| "Kitty Kitty" (Featuring Trey Songz) | Plies | Goon Affiliated | |
| "Sex Room" (Featuring Trey Songz) | Ludacris | Battle of the Sexes | |
| "Just the Way You Are" | 2011 | Johnny Gill | Still Winning |
| "It Would Be You" | |||
| "Chapter V" | 2012 | Trey Songz | Chapter V |
| "Dive In" | |||
| "Panty Wetter" | |||
| "Playin Hard" | |||
| "2 Reasons" (Featuring T.I.) | |||
| "Hail Mary" (Featuring Jeezy & Lil Wayne) | |||
| "Don't Be Scared" (Featuring Rick Ross) | |||
| "Pretty Girl's Lie" | |||
| "Forever Yours" | |||
| "Inside Interlewd" | |||
| "Fumble" | |||
| "Without a Woman" | |||
| "Interlude4U" | |||
| "Simply Amazing" | |||
| "Check Me Out" (Featuring Diddy (entertainer) & Meek Mill) | |||
| "I Don't Really Care" (Featuring Trey Songz) | Waka Flocka Flame | Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family | |
| "Your One" | Tank | This Is How I Feel | |
| "Lost It All" | |||
| "My Life" (includes "The Right One" interlude)" | 2013 | K. Michelle | Rebellious Soul |
| "Can't Raise a Man" | |||
| "What's Best for You" | 2014 | Trey Songz | Trigga |
| "Heat of Passion" | Keyshia Cole | Point of No Return | |
| "Push It On Me" (With Trey Songz) | 2016 | Kevin Hart | Kevin Hart: What Now? (The Mixtape Presents Chocolate Droppa) |
| "The Prelude" | 2017 | Trey Songz | Tremaine the Album |
| "Come Over" | |||
| "Run Run" | Tamar Braxton | Bluebird of Happiness | |
| "Pick Me Up" | |||
| "Bless Up" | 2018 | Koryn Hawthorne | Unstoppable |
| "Shut Up & Kiss Me" | 2019 | Maurice Moore | Bravetime Travelling |
| "Sexual" | YK Osiris | The Golden Child | |
| "Make Lovelude" | |||
| "Make Love" | |||
| "Closer" (Featuring Jah Vinci) | |||
| "Everything You Do" | |||
| "Be My Guest" | 2020 | Trey Songz | Back Home |
| "Save It" | |||
| "Hands On" | |||
| "Lost & Found" | |||
| "Circles" | |||
| "Round & Round" | |||
| "Cats Got My Tongue" | |||
| "On Top of Me" | |||
| "Nobody's Watchin" | |||
| "Tug of War" | |||
| "All This Love" | |||
| "OG Lovelude" | |||
| "2020 Riots: How Many Times" | |||
| "I Know a Love" | |||
| "Noah Love" | |||
| "Insecure" | Queen Naija | Missunderstood | |
| "Passionate" | |||
| "Speak To Me" [16] [17] | Koryn Hawthorne | I Am | |
| "Pray" [18] | |||
| "Black And White" (Featuring Ari Lennox) | Nasty C | Zulu Man with Some Power | |
| "Cater" (With 2 Chainz) | 2022 | Tink | Pillow Talk |
| "Drunk Text'n" (With Layton Greene) | |||
| "News" (With Russ) | |||
| "Fast Car" | Syd | Broken Hearts Club | |
Guest appearances
| Title | Year | Other performer(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Win You Over" | 1994 | Debelah Morgan | Debelah |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Awarding Body | Award | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 37th Annual Grammy Awards | Grammy Award for Best R&B Album (II) | Won | [19] |
| 2000 | ASCAP Pop Awards | Award-Winning Song ("Sweet Lady") | Won | [20] |
| 2000 | ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards | Award-Winning Song ("Sweet Lady") | Won | [21] |
| 2012 | BMI Awards | Producer Of The Year | Won | [22] |
| 2022 | BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards | Gospel Song of the Year ("Speak To Me") | Won | [23] [24] |
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