A two-time Grammy nominee in the Album of the Year category, songs she has written and co-written have exceeded 16 billion streams on Spotify and appeared on the pop, hip hop, R & B, K-pop, country, and Latin charts.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Parx took singing, dance, and classical piano lessons growing up, and wrote her first songs as a child.
Her first hit as a songwriter was Fifth Harmony's debut single, "BO$$", In 2018, three of her co-written songs appeared simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100: "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani, "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande, and "High Hopes" by Panic!
In 2021, with Dan + Shay's "Glad You Exist", she became the fourth Black woman to write a #1 country song in the history of the genre's airplay charts.
In 2017, Parx debuted as a solo artist with the mixtape, TaylaMade, It was followed by the full-length albums We Need to Talk (2019), Coping Mechanisms (2020), and Many Moons, Many Suns (2024).
Parx was born Taylor Monét Parks[1] in Texas, and grew up in Dallas before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 13.
[17] She scored her first big hit as a co-writer and vocal producer on "Boss," the lead single from Fifth Harmony's debut album.
[19] In 2015, her songs were recorded by The Internet, Pentatonix, Red Velvet, Jason Derulo, and Keyshia Cole, among others, and she was featured on "Anyway", a track co-written with Chris Brown.
In April 2016, she had her first #1 hit on the Latin Pop charts with the Sofía Reyes and Prince Royce track "Solo Yo.
Parx also co-wrote the title track of Chloe x Halle's The Kids Are Alright, (which was Grammy-nominated in the Best Contemporary Urban album category).
[4 [3] In 2018, in addition to voicing AJ for The Walking Dead video game series, Parx had three songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100: "Thank U, Next", "High Hopes" by Panic!
[5] "Love Lies" was a Top 10 hit in seven countries; Vanity Fair included it as one of a group of "genre-averse" songs that defined music in the 2010s.
With her debut album, We Need to Talk, released in April 2019, Parx explored genre, gender, and feminism as well as her identity as a queer Black woman.
She covered Marvin Gaye's"What's Going On", Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" and Kirk Franklin's "I Smile" on A Blue State, which was released on Atlantic in October 2020.
"[28][27] During the pandemic, Parx produced vocals and co-wrote six songs—including 34+35 and POV -- for Grande's fifth album, Positions, while observing strict social distancing protocols.
[32][11] Writing when inspiration hit, Parx began working on her third album, Many Moons, Many Suns, just after the release of Coping Mechanisms.
I’m saying that when you go through those dark times, you will finally bounce back and realize that you’re OK.” [36] Formally launched in 2021,[37] Parx established TaylaMade, Inc. as an umbrella organization for her ventures.
Parx Publishing and 3020 Management have signed writers and producers including Grammy nominees Oliver Frid, Kameron Glasper, and Em Walcott.