Michelle Lewis

Michelle Lewis is an Emmy-winning songwriter & composer based in Los Angeles, as well as a highly-influential music creators’ rights advocate. The daughter of musicians, she spent her early career in New York City as a recording artist signed to Irving Azoff’s Giant Records after attending Columbia University.  But it was upon moving to LA that she had her first radio hit as a songwriter with Cher’s “A Different Kind of Love Song” in 2002.  She spent the next 10 years as a go-to top-liner and songwriter, writing hits including the worldwide #1 single “Wings” by the British girl group Little Mix.  

For the last decade, Michelle has branched out into the world of songwriting for animated television, most notably as a Peabody Award-winning composer of all original music for Disney Jr’s hit show, Doc McStuffins and Emmy-nominated songwriter of the beloved Nickelodeon series The Loud House. She and her co-writers won an Emmy this past year for Outstanding Original Song for “Unsaid Emily” from the Netflix series Julie and the Phantoms. She has over a half-dozen TV themes currently airing; including Doc McStuffins, The Loud House, Ada Twist, The Harvey Street Kids, Sydney 2 the Max and DC Super Hero Girls.  

Michelle is solidly situated on the leading edge of issues facing songwriters as evidenced by her many roles: as SONA’s executive director; as a member of ASCAP’s Board of Directors; as an LA Chapter board member of the Recording Academy, as well as serving on the executive committee of the Music Peer Group for the Television Academy. She is deeply committed to the ongoing fight to make streaming royalty rates more fair to creators, to the education and empowerment of creators through metadata, to the implementation and utilization of the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and to the fight for songwriters to get healthcare and workplace safety standards in place.  In 2019 she won the California Copyright Coalition’s (CCC) Apollo Award and was on Rolling Stone’s “Future 25” list.