Noel Zancanella
Los Angeles-based American record producer and songwriter, born in Denver, who co-wrote OneRepublic's "Good Life" and shared a Grammy for Taylor Swift's 1989.
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- 2026
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- Writing
- Based in
- Denver, Colorado
- Active since
- 2026
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Biography
Noel Patrick Zancanella is an American record producer and songwriter born in Denver, Colorado, and now based in Los Angeles. He began writing hip-hop in Colorado and learned engineering to record his own tracks, then moved to Los Angeles and found work as an engineer at Village Recorders.
Since 2009 he has been signed to Patriot Games Publishing, the company founded by Ryan Tedder. That deal followed his co-write on OneRepublic's "Good Life", which reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.
His catalogue includes OneRepublic's "I Lived" and "West Coast", Maroon 5's "Maps" and Ella Henderson's "Ghost", and he has worked with Taylor Swift, B.o.B., Gym Class Heroes, Gavin DeGraw, Colbie Caillat, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato.
He won BMI Pop Awards Songwriter of the Year in 2015, and in 2016 shared the Grammy for Album of the Year with Ryan Tedder for production on Taylor Swift's 1989. In 2024 HarbourView Equity Partners acquired certain producer royalties and publishing assets from him.