Career
After an early stint as a cruise ship pianist, Sterling"s musical career came to fruition in 2007 after moving to New York City. He quickly came into demand as a session player, songwriter, and music producer. In 2008, he co-founded a music production duo Robopop.
Soon after, Sterling went on to cowrite and coproduce "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes, featuring Adam Levine.
The record was certified 3x platinum in the United States, 3x platinum in Australia and 2x platinum in Canada and reached #1 on the Billboard United States People’s Songs Chart. After the success of "Stereo Hearts", Sterling coproduced the song "Video Games", the first breakout release from artist Lana Delegate Rey.
"Video Games" was a huge success and its album Born to Die has gone on to sell over 5,000,000 units worldwide. Fox also played the piano part on the recording and was credited as a mixing engineer
After "Video Games", Fox split off from his production team to focus on his own solo project
He has since worked on a number of collaborations, including cowriting and adding vocals to the song "Shame on Maine" from Avicii"s album True and writing and singing the #1 charting Beatport song "Colors" with Tritonal. Later that year, Fox started a New York City based record label Silver Scream Records, focused primarily on releasing singles from unique and upcoming recording artists. In 2014, Sterling produced and cowrote the #1 iTunes hit single "Wasted Love" for The Voice Season 7 finalist Matt McAndrew.
lieutenant sold 100,000 copies the first night of its release and reached #1 on the iTunes singles chart.
He has written songs with the likes of Madonna, Max Martin, Charli XCX, Adam Lambert, Shellback, Benny Blanco, and many others Sterling Fox recently announced plans to release his first solo album in 2015.