Timbaland

Timothy Zachery Mosley born March 10 1972 known professionally as Timbaland is an American songwriter and record producer Born and raised in Norfolk Virginia he is widely acclaimed for his distinctive production work and stuttering rhythmic style In 2007 Entertainment Weekly stated that just about every current pop trend can be traced back to himfrom sultry urbanedged RB songstresses to the art of incorporating avantgarde sounds into No 1 hits He has won four Grammy Awards from 22 nominations Timbalands first major production credit was on the album Ginuwine the Bachelor 1996 by RB singer Ginuwine Further commercial success on his following productionsincluding Aaliyahs album One in a Million 1996 and Missy Elliotts album Supa Dupa Fly 1997made him a soughtafter producer for RB and hiphop acts He performed as a recording artist himself while doing so releasing three albums as part of the Virginiabased hiphop duo Timbaland Magoo along with his debut solo album Tims Bio 1998 He produced Justin Timberlakes 2002 single Cry Me a River and thereafter produced the majority of Timberlakes subsequent releasesincluding FutureSexLoveSounds 2006 and The 2020 Experience 2013along with their respective hit singles Timbalands 2007 single Give It To Me featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded the release of his second album Shock Value 2007 It spawned the singles The Way I Are featuring Keri Hilson and Apologize with OneRepublic which peaked at numbers three and two on the chart respectively His third album Shock Value II 2009 was supported by the top 40 singles Carry Out featuring Justin Timberlake Say Something featuring Drake and If We Ever Meet Again with Katy Perry Meanwhile Timbalands production credits throughout this time expanded to include songs for Michael Jackson JayZ Beyoncé Madonna Kanye West Rihanna Alicia Keys Lil Wayne and Björk among others Timbaland founded the record labels Beat Club in 2001 and its successor Mosley Music Group in 2006 through which he has signed artists including Nelly Furtadowhose album Loose 2006 peaked the Billboard 200as well as OneRepublic Keri Hilson Bubba Sparxxx and Chris Cornell Beat Club is namesake of a service in which Timbaland mentors upcoming producers launched in 2020 Along with fellow producer Swizz Beatz he cocreated the webcast series Verzuz that same year Description above from the Wikipedia article Timbaland licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia