Tom Gray is a British songwriter, composer, and activist. He is a founding member of the rock band Gomez, and the founder of the Broken Record campaign. He is the recipient of the 2022 Unsung Hero Award presented by the Music Producer’s Guild UK.

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Gray is a founding member and one of three vocalists in the UK

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band Gomez. With Gomez, he won the

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in 1998. He founded the Broken Record campaign in March 2020 to seek fairer remuneration for music creators, especially from streaming. The campaign helped to initiate a UK parliamentary inquiry into the ‘Economics of streaming’. In April 2021, Gray wrote a letter to the British Prime Minister

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, requesting better rights for creators and for the industry to be referred to the UK

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. The letter was co-signed by other 200 notable individuals in UK music industry including

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and

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. As a composer, Gray has worked in film and television. He wrote the score for the first season of ''In My Skin'', a comedy-drama series on the

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and

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. He has also composed for the adaptation of '' Danny Champion of the World'' for the stage as a musical. In February 2021, Gray was elected as the Chair of the

Ivors Academy The Ivors Academy (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors – BASCA) is one of the largest professional associations for music writers in Europe. The academy exists to support, protect, and campaign for the interests ...

, the British association of songwriters and composers. He led several campaigns through the academy, which has resulted in an international conversation around reform of the streaming market. He is also an elected Council Member of the

Performing Rights Society PRS for Music Limited (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited) is a British music copyright collective, made up of two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS). It undertake ...

. On June 9, 2022, Gray was awarded the Unsung Hero Award by the

Music Producers Guild The Music Producers Guild (MPG) (UK) promotes and represents all individuals in the music production and recording professions. It is a professional organisation that embodies collective and individual creative contributions to the production and ...

, UK.

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