Louis Schoorl | |
Birth Name: | Louis Schoorl |
Birth Date: | 1976 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | The Netherlands |
Origin: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Songwriter, producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist |
Label: | Disney Music Publishing |
Louis Schoorl (born 23 December 1976) is a Dutch-born Australian songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.[1]
Based in Sydney, Australia, Schoorl has written or produced for 5 Seconds of Summer, Taylor Henderson, Jessica Mauboy, Girls' Generation, Stan Walker, The Fooo, Dami Im, Guy Sebastian, 360, Pez and M-Phazes. He's worked alongside singer-songwriters including Daniel Johns, Tina Arena, De La Soul, Delta Goodrem, The Veronicas, Kimbra, Bertie Blackman, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Georgie Kay and Mike Rosenberg aka Passenger.
Schoorl songs have topped the Swedish, Japanese and Australian Charts including runner-up of The X Factor Australia, Taylor Henderson's "Borrow My Heart".[2] [3] [4]
On a trip to Stockholm Louis wrote a song with Erik Lewander and Ylva Dimberg of The Kennel that was released by Girls' Generation on their Japanese album Love and Peace. The track "My Oh My" has notched up more than 20 million YouTube views.[5] Girls' Generation have set a new record by becoming the first Korean girl group to top the Oricon Weekly Album Chart twice with their 3rd Japanese full-length album Love & Peace.[6]
Schoorl won Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year at the 2014 APRA Awards held in Brisbane in recognition of a hot stretch in 2013 during which he wrote, co-wrote and produced 88 songs, collaborating with such acts as 360, Daniel Johns, Taylor Henderson and Jessica Mauboy. Schoorl is signed to a worldwide publishing deal with Disney Music Publishing.[7]
Schoorl co-wrote the original song "Gotcha" for the Australian film The Sapphires[8] with Ilan Kidron and the film's star, Jessica Mauboy. The film's soundtrack was nominated for an ARIA Music Award for the Best Original Soundtrack[9] and Best Pop Release.[10] Jessica Mauboy also received an ARIA Nomination for Best Female Artist[11] for "Gotcha".
In 2018 he co-wrote the Swedish entry for that year's Eurovision Song Contest, Dance You Off, performed by Benjamin Ingrosso.[12]
Year | Artist | Album | Song Title | Co-written with | Producer |
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2014 | Burnt Letters | "Already Gone" | Alex Hope | ||
2014 | Taylor Henderson | Burnt Letters | "When You Were Mine" | Louis Schoorl | |
2014 | Utopia | "Impossible" | Matt Colwell, Daniel Johns | Louis Schoorl | |
2014 | "Run For Your Life" | Bertie Blackman | Louis Schoorl | ||
2014 | "Heart of Goodbye" | Diana Rouvas | |||
2013 | Taylor Henderson | "Borrow My Heart" | Alex Hope, Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | |
2013 | "Your Eyes" | Alex Hope, Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | ||
2013 | The Fooo | "Build A Girl" | Herbie Crichlow, Joleen Belle | ||
2013 | Love and Peace | "My Oh My" | Ylva Dimberg, Erik Lewander | ||
2013 | Reset | "Still Running" | Tina Arena, Hayley Warner | ||
2012 | The Sapphires | "Gotcha" | Ilan Kidron, Jessica Mauboy | Louis Schoorl | |
2012 | "Who's Gonna Love You?" | Nermin Harambasic, Anna Stokke Wik, Ronny Svendsen | |||
2012 | "Set Me on Fire" | Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | ||
Year | Artist | Album | Song Title | Writers | Executive Producer | Producer |
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2012 | Armageddon | "Keeper" | Guy Sebastian | Louis Schoorl | ||
"Big Bad World" | Guy Sebastian | Louis Schoorl | ||||
"Don't Worry Be Happy" | Guy Sebastian | Louis Schoorl | ||||
2014 | Burnt Letters | "When You Were Mine" | Louis Schoorl | Alex Hope | ||
"Already Gone" | Taylor Henderson, Alex Hope, Louis Schoorl | Louis Schoorl | Louis Schoorl | |||
"Sail Away" | Robby De Sa, Ben Fielding, Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | Robby De Sa, Louis Schoorl | |||
"Brighter Days" | Alex Hope, Lindsay Rimes, Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | Lindsay Rimes | |||
"Worth Fighting For" | Louis Schoorl | Jon Hume, Louis Schoorl | ||||
"Host of Angels" | Taylor Henderson, Jon Hume | Louis Schoorl | Jon Hume, Louis Schoorl | |||
"Piece by Piece" | Taylor Henderson, Alex Hope, Louis Schoorl, Hayley Warner | Louis Schoorl | Louis Schoorl | |||
"Close to Nothing" | Taylor Henderson, Alex Hope, Johan Gustafson, Sebastian Lundberg, Fredrik Haggstam | Louis Schoorl | Trinity | |||
"Matter of Time" | Louis Schoorl | Adrian Breakspear, Louis Schoorl | ||||
"The Best Part" | Taylor Henderson, Emma Birdsall, Alex Hope, Christian Lo Russo, Louis Schoorl | Louis Schoorl | Louis Schoorl | |||
"Taking Back" | Taylor Henderson, Jon Hume | Louis Schoorl | Jon Hume, Louis Schoorl | |||
"Burnt Letters" | Louis Schoorl | Alex Hope | ||||
2014 | "Beside You" | Joel Chapman, Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Christian Lo Russo | Louis Schoorl, Joel Chapman, John Feldmann | |||
2014 | Utopia | "Impossible" | Matt Colwell, Daniel Johns, Louis Schoorl | Daniel Johns, Louis Schoorl | ||
"It's All About To End" | Matt Colwell, Daniel Johns, Louis Schoorl | Daniel Johns, Louis Schoorl | ||||
Artist | EP | Song Title | Writers | Producers | |
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Somewhere New | "Unpredictable" | Joel Chapman, Louis Schoorl | |||
"Out of My Limit" | Joel Chapman, Louis Schoorl | ||||
"Beside You" | Joel Chapman, Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Christian Lo Russo | Joel Chapman, Louis Schoorl | |||
"Gotta Get Out" | Joel Chapman, Louis Schoorl |
Year | Chart | Artist | Release | Certification | |
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2012 | "Gotcha" – single | 1 x GOLD | |||
2012 | ARIA Charts | Armageddon – album | 2 x PLATINUM | ||
2013 | ARIA Charts | Reset – album | 1 x PLATINUM | ||
2013 | "Build A Girl" – single | TBC | |||
2013 | Love and Peace – album | 1 x GOLD | |||
2014 | ARIA Charts | Taylor Henderson | "Borrow My Heart" – single | 2 x PLATINUM | |
2014 | ARIA Charts | Burnt Letters – album | 1 x GOLD | ||
2014 | ARIA Charts | Taylor Henderson | "When You Were Mine" – single | 1 x PLATINUM | |
2014 | ARIA Charts | 5 Seconds of Summer – album | 1 x GOLD |
Year | Recipient | Award | Nomination | Result | |
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2014 | Louis Schoorl | Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year[13] | |||
2020 | DNA, Louis Schoorl for Hilda by Jessica Mauboy | Producer of the Year[14] |