- Born
- Birth nameBonnie Leigh McKee
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Bonnie Leigh McKee (born January 20th, 1984) is an American singer, Grammy nominated songwriter, actress, screenwriter, and director. She released her first album, Trouble, with Reprise records in 2004.
After leaving Reprise, Bonnie went on to write 10 #1 songs for other artists. Songs that Bonnie has co-written have amassed over 35 million sales world wide, and garnered over 5 Billion streams. Since 2013, she's been releasing her own songs as an artist again, and continues releasing music independently today. In 2020, Bonnie starred in a short film she wrote, directed, edited, and scored, called April Kills The Vibe.
Bonnie is best known for her collaborations with pop artist Katy Perry, co-writing "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Last Friday Night", "Part of Me", "Wide Awake", and "Roar", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year in 2013. She has also collaborated with and written for Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Jason Derulo, KYGO, Kesha, Carly Rae Jepson, Cher, Charlie Puth, Ellie Goulding, Christina Aguilera, Adam Lambert, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Steve Aoki, Armin Van Buuren, The Chainsmokers, Cheryl Cole, Rita Ora, Taio Cruz, and many more.
While Bonnie is best known for her musical career, she has also worked as an actor, appearing as a supporting role in the Oscar nominated film August Rush, guest starring on NBC's American Dreams as Janis Joplin, guest starring on CSI: NY as Eleanor Ravelle, guest starring as Kimmy Kelly on Darren Chris's original show Royalties, and starring in two different roles for her own self written and directed short film, April Kills The Vibe, for which she's won 10 awards for, including Best Actress, Best Women's Short, Best First Time Director, and Best Score.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonnie McKee
- Frequent collaborator with Katy Perry.
- She released a viral video of her celebrity peers lip syncing "American Girl", featuring Katy Perry, Kesha, Jason Derulo, Carly Rae Jepson, KISS, Adam Lambert, Kelly Osbourne, Joan Rivers (and the cast of Fashion police), Jenny McCarthy, Jane Lynch, Taio Cruz, Nicole Sherzinger, Jewel, George Takei, Lance Bass, Becky G, Karmin, Macklemore, Kathy Griffith, and Tommy Lee dressed in drag, as her.
- All songs on her album Trouble are written by her.
- Started writing songs when she was 12 years old.
- She was kicked out of a Grammy party at Prince's house and the story was made into an animated cartoon.
- I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.
- If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
- I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.
- There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
- I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
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