Matthew Koma

Matthew Bair (born June 2, 1987), known professionally as Matthew Koma, is an American singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Matthew Koma wrote numerous songs, including "Spectrum" and Grammy Award-winner "Clarity", both performed by Zedd.

Early life
Koma was born and raised on Long Island, and attended Seaford High School.

Musical career
Inspired by musical artists Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, and Stephan Jenkins, Koma started his music career in punk rock, later transitioning into a mixture of genres ranging from pop and hip hop to EDM. Koma's early collaborations include work with Hardwell, Zedd, Miriam Bryant, Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso, Afrojack, Tiësto, Vicetone and Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic.

Koma was noticed by Jimmy Iovine who signed him to Interscope Records after watching an acoustic performance of the record "She". He later released his first EP, Parachute, in May 2012, in which he wrote, produced and co-produced all four tracks with collaborators Twice as Nice, Alex da Kid, Sam Watters, Louis Biancaniello, and Ari Levine. Since then he has taken part in the Sorry For Party Rocking worldwide tour with LMFAO and Far East Movement, and later toured with the band Owl City. In March 2012, Bruce Springsteen released "Rocky Ground", a remix that Koma co-produced with Ron Aniello as a single from his album Wrecking Ball.

In 2012 Koma also did the main vocals for the song "End of Pretend" by Black Cards. The following spring, he toured Europe supporting Ellie Goulding alongside Charli XCX.

In 2014, Koma and DJ Hardwell released the single "Dare You", appeared on RAC's debut album, featuring on the single "Cheap Sunglasses". EDM star Audien's single "Serotonin", Showtek's "Cannonball (Earthquake)". He also sang and co-wrote two songs for Afrojack's album Forget the World, "Keep our Love Alive" and "Illuminate".

In January 2015, Koma was featured in Kia Motors' online video series Rediscovered, where he recorded a cover of The Miracles' "The Tracks of My Tears" before Smokey Robinson made a surprise visit in the studio.

Koma collaborated with The Knocks on "I Wish (My Taylor Swift)", which was released as a single in September 2015 and later appeared on the Knocks' 2016 album, 55.

In 2017, Koma produced several tracks for Shania Twain's fifth studio album Now, including the lead single "Life's About to Get Good". He guests on the Downes Braide Association album Skyscraper Souls

In August 2018 he premiered "On the 5", both single and video under his new project, Winnetka Bowling League via RCA Records.

In August 2020, he co-wrote and co-produced the single "Change Your Mind" by Keith Urban. In 2016 he worked with Britney Spears on her album Glory (Britney Spears album) producing the song “Swimming in the Stars”, which was eventually released in 2020.

Personal life
Koma is married to Hilary Duff. They have two daughters, Banks born in 2018 and Mae, born 2021. He is also a stepfather to Duff's son Luca, from her previous marriage to ice-hockey player Mike Comrie.

In 2017, he released "Dear Ana", a song about his battle with anorexia and confessed that the disease almost killed him. Koma stated that, because of the disease, "[he] was in hell" in the year he had "[his] first hit songs".

Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" ! scope="col" | Award ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Nominee(s) ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Ref. ! scope="row"|BMI Pop Awards ! scope="row"|Billboard Music Awards ! scope="row" rowspan=2|International Dance Music Awards ! scope="row"|MTV Video Music Awards Japan
 * 2014
 * Award-Winning Song
 * "Clarity"
 * Won
 * 2012
 * Top Dance/Club Song
 * "Spectrum"
 * Won
 * 2013
 * Best Progressive Track
 * "Years"
 * Nominated
 * 2016
 * Best Dubstep/Drum & Bass Track
 * "Emotional"
 * Nominated
 * "Emotional"
 * Nominated
 * 2012
 * Best Dance Video
 * "Spectrum"
 * Nominated