Biography
Diana Gordon's path as a composer, producer, and vocalist began after she co-wrote Mary J. Blige's "Gonna Breakthrough" in 2005. Her work has ranged across pop-oriented club material and intimate bedroom ballads, yielding a number-one placement on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart with "Dirty Talk" in 2010, the With the Music I Die EP in 2011, the self-released Pure EP in 2018, and a Warner Records contract that produced Wasted Youth in 2020. Operating at times under the name Wynter Gordon, she has also appeared on tracks by EDM producers such as David Guetta, Steve Aoki, and Laidback Luke while supplying songs to other acts, among them Flo Rida's Top Five pop hit "Sugar" and three titles on Beyoncé's Lemonade.
Growing up in Queens, Diana Gordon cultivated her abilities in dance, songwriting, and singing. Shortly after graduating from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, she earned her first writing credit on Mary J. Blige's "Gonna Breakthrough," a key song from the multi-platinum 2005 album The Breakthrough. Further writing assignments followed, highlighted by Flo Rida's 2009 number-five pop single "Sugar." Gordon stepped forward as a featured artist herself in 2009 on David Guetta's "Toyfriend." The next year she debuted as a lead act on the Atlantic-distributed Big Beat label with "Dirty Talk," which reached the summit of Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. Big Beat gathered earlier tracks, remixes, and new songs into the EP-sized set The First Dance by the close of that year. An EP of entirely new material, With the Music I Die, appeared in 2011.
Over the following years Gordon continued blending behind-the-scenes and front-facing work, writing for Ciara and Angel Haze while also writing and performing on releases by Steve Aoki ("Ladi Dadi"), Laidback Luke ("Speak Up"), and Major Lazer ("Keep Cool"). A brief affiliation with EMI's Harvest division resulted in the 2015 EP Five Needle, containing dramatic yet atmospheric pop songs. Two denser, more unconventional singles came out on 4AD in 2016, the same year her writing credits appeared on three tracks—"Don't Hurt Yourself," "Sorry," and "Daddy Lessons"—from Beyoncé's platinum album Lemonade.
Gordon resumed activity as an independent artist with Pure in 2018, a modest set of candid contemporary ballads. After signing with Warner Records she released the single "Becoming" in 2019, then followed it in 2020 with "Rollin" and the Wasted Youth EP.
Growing up in Queens, Diana Gordon cultivated her abilities in dance, songwriting, and singing. Shortly after graduating from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, she earned her first writing credit on Mary J. Blige's "Gonna Breakthrough," a key song from the multi-platinum 2005 album The Breakthrough. Further writing assignments followed, highlighted by Flo Rida's 2009 number-five pop single "Sugar." Gordon stepped forward as a featured artist herself in 2009 on David Guetta's "Toyfriend." The next year she debuted as a lead act on the Atlantic-distributed Big Beat label with "Dirty Talk," which reached the summit of Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. Big Beat gathered earlier tracks, remixes, and new songs into the EP-sized set The First Dance by the close of that year. An EP of entirely new material, With the Music I Die, appeared in 2011.
Over the following years Gordon continued blending behind-the-scenes and front-facing work, writing for Ciara and Angel Haze while also writing and performing on releases by Steve Aoki ("Ladi Dadi"), Laidback Luke ("Speak Up"), and Major Lazer ("Keep Cool"). A brief affiliation with EMI's Harvest division resulted in the 2015 EP Five Needle, containing dramatic yet atmospheric pop songs. Two denser, more unconventional singles came out on 4AD in 2016, the same year her writing credits appeared on three tracks—"Don't Hurt Yourself," "Sorry," and "Daddy Lessons"—from Beyoncé's platinum album Lemonade.
Gordon resumed activity as an independent artist with Pure in 2018, a modest set of candid contemporary ballads. After signing with Warner Records she released the single "Becoming" in 2019, then followed it in 2020 with "Rollin" and the Wasted Youth EP.
Albums
Singles
