Redzone's discography includes collaborations with many artists, producers, and composers of note, and is responsible for over 25 million records sold.
[1] RedZone Entertainment has produced acts such as P!nk, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Ciara, Sting, Rihanna, and Justin Bieber.
In 1989 when Laney Stewart signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Famous Music, and the family left jingles and began writing and producing records full-time for major artists.
In 1990, at the age of 16, Tricky got his first major label placement when he produced a song entitled "Hold Me Tight" for MCA recording artist, Troy Hinton.
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart wrote and produced JT Money's single "Who Dat", which featured rapper Solé.
During this time, Redzone signed Music Producer Chuckey Charles, R&B singer Sam Salter, and R&B singer/songwriter Blu Cantrell.
In 2000, Tricky Stewart and producer/writer Tab started working with Blu Cantrell on a demo recording and helped her break into the business singing back up for such artists as Diddy, Gerald Levert, Aaron Hall, and Faith Evans.
[9] Reid was quoted as saying: "Her voice seemed to satisfy that yearning in my soul, not only for a great singer, but for a sound that I felt was missing in today's music.
The list over the years includes, but is not limited too, The-Dream, P. Magnet, Traci Hale, Tab, B. Cox, Kuk Harrell, Jazze Pha, Dallas Austin, Battery Five, Jermaine Dupri, Dean, J "Q" of The Clutch, Dru Castro, Todd Herfindel, J.B. of "the Movement", Zeke and Ciara.
This led to the enlistment of RedZone founder Tricky Stewart and one of his production partners P. Magnet to work on several more songs for the album.
"[11]In 2004 vocal producer, songwriter and engineer Kuk Harrell joined and became a key player on the RedZone team.
Released in March 2007, the RedZone production "Umbrella", performed by Barbadian singer Rihanna on the Def Jam Recordings album Good Girl Gone Bad, yielded the company's furthest commercial success.
"Umbrella" also won a Grammy Award from three nominations, and was met with generally positive reception from music critics.
Stewart, Nash, and Harrell closed out the year working with artists including Janet Jackson ("Greatest X" off Discipline), Jesse McCartney ("Leavin'" off the record Departure), Celine Dion ("Skies of L.A." off her album Taking Chances), and Usher ("Moving Mountains" and "This Ain't Sex" of his album Here I Stand).
Holiday's "Bed", RedZone writer/producer "The-Dream" went on to artistic success with his own certified gold record "Love Hate".
The song is Carey's eighteenth number one single on the Billboard Hot 100[22] and nominated for a 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
A review in Billboard Magazine stated that "this sensual jam is 100% Mariah, packed with satisfying harmonic layers and hooky background 'oh's,' supersonic verses and a chorus as catchy as a winter sniffle",[23] and Blender stated that it was a "pop genius making genius pop".
[26] Digital Spy was also positive, saying "its cooing, sensual charms soon take hold, suggesting the wind's still very much behind the Carey comeback bandwagon".
[27] On March 10, 2008, Tricky Stewart, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, and Kuk Harrell co-created the single entitled "Leavin'" for Jesse McCartney's album "Departure" which was subsequently released on May 20, 2008.
[29] Tricky Stewart, Terius "The-Dream" Nash, and Kuk Harrell wrote and produced the hit single "One Time" for Canadian singer Justin Bieber's debut album, My World.
In early 2009, Tricky Stewart and Terius "The-Dream" Nash wrote and produced numerous songs on Ciara's third studio album, "Fantasy Ride", which was released on May 5, 2009.
They both co-wrote and produced five songs titled "High Price", "Like a Surgeon", "Ciara to the Stage", "Lover's Thing", and "Keep Dancin' On Me" on the album.
[30] In December 2017; Laney Stewart produced 90's girl group Xscape (LaTocha Scott, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris, & Tamika Scott) as a trio minus Kandi Burress (Xscap3) to release the song "Dream Killa" with a follow-up by Pierre Medor titled "Here For It", with the EP executive produced by Tricky Stewart.