I have been performing, composing, and loving music since a very early age. I started composing seriously as a teenager, toured with bands, and played in piano bars. My commercial clients have included the BFI, Red Bull Media House, Robert Lepage, Transport for London, Aardman, Netflix and the National Theatre. As a composer, I have written operas, oratorios, countless songs and lots of piano music. My career highlight so far was a concert of The Cool Web: A Robert Graves Oratorio in St. Paul's Cathedral, to mark the end of the WW1 centenary. In the last moments of the piece, poppies were dropped from the dome down onto the audience whilst the Last Post was played by a distant trumpet. It was incredible!

Having spent years playing piano in the Pump Room Restaurant in Bath, Somerset, I have probably played “Happy Birthday” well over a thousand times—possibly closer to 5,000. During some sessions I'd have to play it seven times in a row. I uploaded my “Happy Birthday Classical Variations” to YouTube around 2008 and the video ended up being watched nearly 2 million times. Unfortunately, that was at the point where Warner Brothers still claimed ownership of the song (I know... ridiculous!).

Then in 2019, I was working on some Spotify cover versions—The Wrong Piano—when I suddenly had the idea that recording “Happy Birthday” with multiple names might attract a lot of Spotify listens. A few months later, I set up a studio in Bath and we began the journey of recording over 800 names with 16 different artists. Then Covid hit and the world changed.

Later that year, in July, our first son Cosmo was born. I was fortunate enough to be working from home, creating tracks and finding collaborators. And what an incredibly talented bunch they are! And what a journey... it's been amazing and relentless in equal measure.

And Sing Me Happy Birthday has evolved from a simple birthday-song album to an interactive singing-birthday-card website.

Enjoy singing “Happy Birthday”!