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Feb 19, 2021 · Photo: UMe/Youtube. This month marks the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s Control, and famed producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have shared a new video discussing the making of the iconic ...
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Sep 18, 2019 · As with Control, she worked with the songwriting and production team of James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis, former members of the Time and architects of the “Minneapolis Sound ...
Oct 28, 2022 · 1973 Meet at Upward Bound summer program. ... In 1987, Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam celebrated after winning a Grammy for producer of the year; the first of five Grammys in their career.
Aug 28, 2019 · Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on the stories behind their biggest hits with Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, and more. Sixteen No. 1 singles, tens of millions of records sold, and two iconic hats.
Dec 31, 2021 · Harris was a senior, and Lewis, a ninth-grader at Minneapolis’ Washburn High School. The two crossed paths and became friends in 1973 as Upward Bound students at the University of Minnesota. In 1982, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis established Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc. which included the Perspective record label. The next year, 1983, they ...
James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis are known for their studio magic, creating smooth, funky synth-laden grooves, as well as their signature style – dark sunglasses, black suits, and black fedora hats. Minneapolis natives, they joined forces while still in high school and soon found themselves rocketed into the orbit of rising ...
Sep 19, 2019 · Two thousand miles away, 23-year-old Janet Jackson was holed up in Flyte Tyme studios with her coproducers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, enduring a Minnesota winter and working on the follow-up to ...
