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James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson . [4]
Oct 7, 2021 · You might not know the names Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis right away – but you've almost definitely heard their work. The songwriting and production duo are behind a ton of R&B hits.
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- Janet Jackson, “No Sleeep” (2015) Jam: We didn't work on the record before with Janet [2008's Discipline]. This album is a return to what we did on the first five records, which is everybody left us alone.
- Usher, “U Remind Me” (2001) Jam: We didn't actually write it. We produced it. We normally do both. "U Remind Me" was a record that [label executive] L.A. Reid had from a guy who had about 50 different names — he was Hustle Child, Eddie Hustle, Butter.
- Mary J. Blige, “No More Drama” (2001) Jam: I'm a big soap opera fan, and I always wanted to do something using The Young and the Restless theme. We figured Mary was at a point in her life that she knew about drama and it was a song lyrically she could sing.
- Yolanda Adams, “Open My Heart” (1999) Lewis: With Sounds of Blackness, we dabbled in the inspirational part of music, but we had never really dealt with gospel artists.
23.5K subscribers ‧ 57 videos. Official channel for Grammy Award winning producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. jamandlewis.com and 4 more links.
Jul 9, 2021 · Together they started shaping what would become her 10m-selling 1986 breakthrough Control, which understandably “kind of stopped the progress on our own album”, as Jimmy “Jam” Harris, 62, puts it...
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Jul 8, 2021 · Janet Jackson's album Control was one of the biggest hits of 1986 – and the Grammy-winning beginning of a legendary partnership between Jackson and the album's producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry...
Nov 4, 2022 · Learn how the legendary duo behind Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson and more achieved 100 No. 1s and five Grammys. Read their interview on how they tailor songs to the artists like a suit.
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