James and Haywood initially began as a collaboration, releasing their self-titled EP
Dreamlab. Dreamlab later became their production and songwriting team name. Before moving into Dreamlab productions, Haywood received success in mainstream music as a Singer-songwriter with her debut album
Leah. In 2001 Haywood was nominated for Best Female Artist as well as Most Performed Australian Work for her hit single "
We Think It's Love" at the
Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards. Around this time James moved to the band 'Receiver' as the lead vocalist, touring the United States and Australia. After relocating from Australia to Los Angeles, Dreamlab's initial success came with producing a majority of the debut release of
Aly and AJ, "
Into the Rush". The album was later certified Platinum by the
RIAA. From then Dreamlab has gone on to
coproduce and
cowrite for
Grammy Award nominated artists
Demi Lovato,
Nicki Minaj,
Selena Gomez,
Miley Cyrus,
Vanessa Hudgens, and in 2011 wrote and produced three songs from the
Girls' Generation self titled
Double platinum selling album. Haywood has also performed background vocals for
Britney Spears and
Celine Dion. In 2011 dreamlab set up the imprint, Layer Cake Records, with their first signing being
Hunter Parrish. ==Discography==