Lamont Dozier is one of BMI’s most honored songwriters with having written and produced over 54 #1 hits for such legendary artists as the Supremes, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and many others. As part of the legendary songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lamont penned such legendary songs as “Baby I Need Your Loving” (9 million performances), “Baby Love” (4 million performances), “How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You)” (7 million), “I Hear a Symphony” (4 million), “It’s the Same Old Song” (4 million), “Reach Out I’ll Be There” (5 million), “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)” (5 million), “Where Did Our Love Go” (5 million), “You Can’t Hurry Love” (8 million) and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (5 million).

The Detroit-born Dozier grew up listening to his father’s record collection of pop/jazz singer, sang in the Baptist gospel choir and absorbed the classical music his aunt played on the family piano. He signed to Berry Gordy’s hometown Motown label, the Sound of Young America, in 1962 as a triple threat, artist, producer and songwriter. It was there he hooked up with Brian Holland and later on, his brother Eddie, setting the standard of ‘60s R&B and soul, fulfilling Lamont’s dream of a music that could cross over to pop radio, where it dominated the era, until the trio’s departure in 1968 to set up their own Invictus and Hot Wax labels.

Since 1972, Lamont has pursued his own solo career, with a regional hit in the single, “Why Can’t We Be Lovers,” leading to a deal with ABC Dunhill for his solo album, Out Here on My Own, scoring success with the singles, “Trying to Hold on to My Woman” and “Fish Ain’t Bitin’,” earning him a nod as Best New Artist in Billboard.

After stints on Warner Bros. (the hit single, “Going Back to My Roots”) and Columbia, Dozier relocated to Europe, where he hooked up with British producer Pete Waterman of
the team of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, working with the likes of Alison Moyet, Simply Red, Boy George and Eric Clapton. He collaborated with Phil Collins on the soundtrack
of the Genesis star’s movie Buster in 1988, earning them a Grammy, a Brit Award, a Golden Globe, Britain’s distinguished Ivor Novello honor and an Oscar nomination.

In 2002 solo album, Lamont Dozier…An American Original, garnered him a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album. The year 2003 brought forth the prestigious BMI Icon Award to Lamont Dozier, while 2004 crowned these
accomplishments with the British Special International Ivor Novello Award given to Lamont Dozier.

Lamont Dozier’s ‘70s solo albums have been sampled over and over again making his catalog one of the most sampled music catalogs to date by everyone from rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur to Lil Wayne, to Dr. Dre to The Alchemist to Common, Lupe Fiasco, Three 6 Mafia to soul icons Mary J. Blige and Nas to Usher and alternative rockers Linkin Park.

Lamont is currently serving as Trustee for NARAS, the organization known for The Grammy Organization, Previously he had served two terms as “Governor”. He is also the Chairman for the Advocacy Committee at NARAS.. Lamont spends much of his time at Grammy Board Meetings, speaking on songwriter panels for both Grammy Camp, and
Career Day in Schools on behalf of the Grammys, wishing to give back the knowledge that he has learned throughout his many years in the Music Industry. This is extremely
fulfilling to Lamont, as he loves to educate young aspiring talent about the do’s and don’t’s in the business he knows so well. As Chair, he intends to walk the hill for artists’
rights as he has always done even before his Chairmanship began.

A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee, and most recently the recipient of the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame 2009 most coveted Johnny Mercer Award,
Dozier continues to push the envelope, whether its plans for his own Broadway Bound Musicals ANGEL QUEST, as well as a special “one-time” only reunion with his former writing mates Eddie and Brian Holland for a musical based on the film THE FIRST WIVES CLUB which was in workshop last July 2009 at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California , and now preparing to make it’s Broadway debut in Fall 2010.

Lamont Dozier continues to work with the best of the latest generation of artists, including Kanye West, Joss Stone, Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart,, members of the Black- Eyes Peas, Solange Knowles and latest Grammy Award winning producer, Mark Ronson.. Lamont has a new single on the newest George Benson album, an instrumental titled “Living In High Definition”, and he is currently working with Nikki Jean,( who is known from Lupe Fiasco’s “Hip Hop Saved My Life”) on her solo album due on Sony Records.

One of Lamont’s proudest accomplishments is his being awarded USC’s Thornton School of Music, “Thornton Legacy Award” in 2007, which also created a permanent Lamont Dozier Scholarship for students at Thornton/USC. Lamont is presently serving as a Professor at USC from receiving an Artist In Residence Professorship from USC, and he is actively involved in the new Popular Music Major at USC through The Thornton School of Music.

Additional information on Lamont Dozier can be found by visiting the following websites:

www.lamontdozier.com

www.imdb.com/name/nm0236541

www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jbfqxql5ldae