Dan Mackenzie is an American songwriter-producer.

Dan Mackenzie was the composer for the Discovery Channel/Original Production’s Monster House (U.S. TV series), nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music

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 in 2004. That same year he was the winner of The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

 Lyricist Award.

In 2007 Mackenzie wrote and produced a Christmas single for Joss Stone

Joss Stone

Jocelyn Eve Stoker , better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist...

 entitled “All I Want For Christmas” (Virgin Records/EMI). In 2008 he co-wrote and co-produced the song “Girlfriend on Demand” with Stone for her album Colour Me Free! (Virgin Records/EMI), released October 2009. Another song co-written by Joss Stone and Dan Mackenzie, "I Get High," was released on the Japanese edition only of the album.

Mackenzie's kindie-pop album "Dan Dan Doodlebug" won the Just Plain Folks Music Organization

Just Plain Folks Music Organization

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 2009 Award for "Best Children's Album." In 2010, Mackenzie received The ASCAP Foundation Joe Raposo

Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo, OIH was a Portuguese-American composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C is for Cookie"...

 Children's Music Award, which supports emerging talent in the area of children's music.

Also in 2010, Mackenzie collaborated with Martin Sexton

Martin Sexton

Martin Sexton is an American singer-songwriter and producer originally from Syracuse, New York.- Early life :Sexton grew up the tenth of twelve children in a working class Irish-American family. He acquired his first guitar, a Sears & Roebuck acoustic, at the age of 14 and later played in local...

to write songs for Sexton's 9th album, "Sugarcoating" (Kitchen Table Records).

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