Bio
Award-winning family artist and songwriter Greg Lato adds yet another feather to his cap with the release of his second children’s album, Adults These Days. The album has recently reached the Top 10 on the iTunes Children's Music chart and is featured on 8 official Apple Music playlists! An extra treat, available separately, is Greg’s recently released second children’s book, Everybody Needs Someone, based on a song from the album.
Greg’s 2020 debut children’s album, Create My Own World, with special guest two-time Grammy winner Bill Harley, reached the Top 15 on the iTunes Children’s Music chart and won both a Family Choice Award and a Creative Child Award.
Greg has recently signed a record deal with 8 Pound Gorilla Records based in Nashville. Since 2021, he is also a voting member of the Recording Academy/Grammys.
Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Greg Lato was surrounded by an encouraging Italian family that included his father, jazz sax player Vinny Lato, who owned an extensive vinyl collection that served as Greg’s introduction to the world of music. Identifying as a songwriter, Greg went on to compose for film, TV, and other artists, most recently co-writing with The Voice runner-up Billy Gilman. Greg received two awards from the Billboard World Song Contest, had one of his music videos air on the FUSE channel, wrote a song for a film that went to #1 on the iTunes movie charts and spent 8 months in the Top 10, has written for network TV shows, has had his songs played in McDonalds, Subway, several department stores and Planet Fitness franchises, and co-wrote the Young Survivors theme song for the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation.
