14 Facts About Pete Kirtley

Peter Edward Kirtley was born on 14 April 1972 and is an English songwriter, record producer and music entrepreneur.

Pete Kirtley has produced over 200 records worldwide with sales exceeding 15 million and 100 million streams, including seven number-one hit singles worldwide, tracks on seven number-one albums, eight UK top-ten hits and thirty-five top-forty hits in Europe.

Peter Edward Kirtley was born in Cuckfield, Sussex, England, but moved to Surrey at a young age.

The younger of two children, his father, Al Pete Kirtley, was a semi-professional musician who had at one time been a member of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band and later of Trendsetters Limited, and under contract to Parlophone Records.

At the age of 11 Pete Kirtley joined a band with Matt Goss, Luke Goss and Craig Logan who later formed the British band Bros.

Pete Kirtley was a keen amateur actor while at school, but at the age of 16 chose music as a career and became a professional drummer.

Pete Kirtley worked with the German acts Linda Teodosiu, Zascha Moktan and Joana Zimmer.

Pete Kirtley co-wrote and produced the Cheeky Song, the first single of The Cheeky Girls, which sold more than 1.2 million units internationally.

Pete Kirtley co-wrote and produced the following three singles, all of which reached the top ten of the UK charts.

Pete Kirtley is a member of the Executive Committee of the charity Rugby for Heroes, and co-wrote and produced "With Pride", their official anthem for the Rugby World Cup.

In July 2021, Pete Kirtley launched his first virtual Artificial Intelligence driven act, Skullz under a new label venture, Soundr, set up by Pete Kirtley.

In 2011 Pete Kirtley joined with Craig Logan, former manager of Pink and ex-Managing Director of the RCA Label Group to work on his first TV format.

Pete Kirtley was the producer of "The School that Rocks", a documentary broadcast on BBC Three television in March 2014.

In 2020 Pete Kirtley produced the feature film Caged starring Edi Gathegi, which was nominated for Best Feature Film and won Best Director at the Pasadena International Film Festival that year.