Jimmy Iovine
Jimmy Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on March 11th, 1953 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 71, Jimmy Iovine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Iovine became chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M, an umbrella unit that was rebranded by the now-reformed Universal Music Group in 1999 prior to Apple's acquisition of Beats.
Early life and training
James Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Italian working-class family. His mother, a secretary, and his father, Vincent "Jimmy" Iovine, served on the docks as a longshoreman. Jimmy was inspired by his father's death and his adoration for Christmas to record A Very Special Christmas in 1985. Iovine attended Catholic school in Brooklyn, graduating from Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School in Brooklyn and moving to John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He was a college dropout at 19 years old. He was introduced to music after a songwriter gave him a job cleaning a recording studio, and he soon began to work as an engineer. Iovine has been involved in the creation of more than 250 albums since the start of his career.
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Iovine converted to record engineer in the early 1970s, among other things, working with John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. Iovine was on staff at the New York studio the Record Plant, where he appeared on Springsteen's Born to Run and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell albums. He rose to fame thanks to her 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which contained her Top 40 hit "Because the Night." On Rattle and Hum, he collaborated with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Tornadoes and U2 in the Heartbreakers. Bella Donna (the first solo album for Stevie Nicks), Making Movies for Dire Straits, and Get Close to The Pretenders.
Iovine served as sound engineer on the Voyager Golden Records, a pair of phonograph records that were first launched aboard the Voyager space probes in 1977.
Iovine was also responsible for supervising the music used in the 1984 romance film Sixteen Candles, Streets of Fire, and the 1988 comedy film Scrooged.
Iovine co-founded Interscope Records, which later became Interscope Geffen A&M after a merger in 1999.
Iovine signed Tupac Shakur to a recording deal as one of the first hip-hop acts on the Interscope label in 1991.
In the 1990s, Iovine was also responsible for providing distribution, initial funding, and financial oversight for the hugely successful Death Row Records hip-hop label. Death Row was a subsidiary of his company Interscope, and he was largely responsible for Interscope's initial platinum selling chart success in the 1990s, which then brought the firm's meteoric rise in the 2000s with platinum artists like Eminem and 50 Cent.
Iovine co-produced Academy Award-winning Eminem film 8 Mile, which debuted at #1 at the box office and went on to gross more than $240 million worldwide in 2002. In addition, Iovine executive produced the 2009 LeBron James film More than a Game and 50 Cents' Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
Iovine co-founded Beats By Dr. Dre, a headphones company, in 2008. By 2012, the organization had a 20 percent market share of the headphones industry.
Iovine revealed in January 2013 that Beats would expand into the digital music market with Daisy, a new service that will debut in late 2013. Ian Rogers, a former Topspin Media executive, and Trent Reznor, a Nine Inch Nails frontman, were expected to be involved.
Apple Inc. reported the acquisition of Beats Electronics on May 28, 2014. Iovine was hired to work at Apple, where he was instrumental in the creation of Apple Music.
Iovine appeared on "Don't Make Me Over," an episode of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, in 2005.
Iovine served as a mentor on Fox's American Idol from 2011 to 2013. Through Interscope, Iovine's protégés, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez, and Candice Glover, all made their music available on Interscope. In mid-2013, Iovine stopped being on the show.
The Defiant Ones, HBO's four-part documentary about Jimmy Iovine's friendship with Dr. Dre and other musicians in July 2017.