Jack Michael Antonoff was born on March 31,1984 and is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer.
40 Facts About Jack Antonoff
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Jack Antonoff was previously the lead singer of the indie rock band Steel Train.
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Jack Antonoff has often been credited with having a significant impact on the sound of contemporary popular music since the mid-2010s.
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Jack Antonoff has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won eight Grammy Awards, including the 2022 and 2023 Grammy for Producer of the Year.
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Jack Antonoff has won Grammy Awards for his work with Fun, for production on Swift's albums 1989 and Folklore, for production on St Vincent's album Daddy's Home, and for co-writing the title track on St Vincent's Masseduction.
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Jack Antonoff was born on March 31,1984, in Bergenfield, New Jersey.
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Jack Antonoff is the second of three children of Shira and Rick Antonoff.
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Jack Antonoff is the younger brother of fashion designer Rachel Antonoff.
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Jack Antonoff's younger sister, Sarah, died of brain cancer at the age of 13 when Antonoff was a senior in high school.
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Jack Antonoff grew up in New Milford, New Jersey, and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and attended elementary school at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County.
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Jack Antonoff initially sang in the group until early 2000 when Eddie Wright took over on vocals.
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The group was popular on the jamband festival circuit and Jack Antonoff has said he has applied that grassroots mentality to his future projects.
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In 2008, Nate Ruess asked Jack Antonoff to join him and Andrew Dost in a new band, which became Fun.
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Jack Antonoff was already well acquainted with Ruess and Dost, as their former bands had all toured together.
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Jack Antonoff announced a solo project called Bleachers in February 2014.
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Jack Antonoff explained to Rolling Stone that, while the song might sound joyous, "it's very desperate" and, like many of the other songs on the album is about loss.
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Jack Antonoff released Bleachers' second album Gone Now on June 2,2017.
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In 2013, Jack Antonoff wrote and produced the song "Sweeter than Fiction" with American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, for the film One Chance.
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Jack Antonoff was a key contributor to Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation.
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In 2019, Swift and Jack Antonoff wrote eight songs and produced eleven tracks together for Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, including the promotional single "The Archer" and the title track, which served as the album's third single.
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In 2020, Swift and Jack Antonoff worked together on Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore.
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Jack Antonoff co-produced Swift's 2022 album, Midnights and co-wrote eleven of the thirteen tracks.
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Jack Antonoff appeared in the music video for the ninth track, "Bejeweled".
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In 2017, Jack Antonoff co-wrote and produced Lorde's Melodrama which was released in June.
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Jack Antonoff then performed "Liability" alongside Lorde on Saturday Night Live.
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In 2018, Jack Antonoff produced the soundtrack for the 20th Century Fox romantic comedy-drama film Love, Simon.
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On June 26,2019, Jack Antonoff previewed a new musical project with Sam Dew and Sounwave called Red Hearse.
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Jack Antonoff co-wrote a majority of the songs on the album including the singles "Mariners Apartment Complex" and "Venice Bitch".
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Jack Antonoff produced Del Rey's subsequent albums Chemtrails Over the Country Club in 2021 and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd in 2023, the latter including the duet "Margaret" which Del Rey wrote about Jack Antonoff's fiancee.
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In 2015, Jack Antonoff started his own music festival called Shadow of the City.
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Jack Antonoff co-wrote the 2013 song "Brave" with Sara Bareilles after the two were introduced by Sara Quin of the band Tegan and Sara.
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Also in 2015, Jack Antonoff portrayed the character Baby Goya in the comedy-drama film Hello, My Name Is Doris.
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Jack Antonoff appeared as himself in the 2021 Edgar Wright-directed film The Sparks Brothers, talking about his admiration for the band Sparks.
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Jack Antonoff produced eight tracks off Florence and the Machine's fifth studio album, Dance Fever, released in 2022.
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In 2022, Jack Antonoff went on to collaborate with English alternative band the 1975 to co-produce their fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
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Jack Antonoff has received eight Grammy Awards and been nominated for one Golden Globe Award.
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Jack Antonoff has earned eight Grammys out of twenty nominations, including Producer of the Year, Non-Classical in 2022 and 2023.
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When Jack Antonoff first moved out of the family home near the end of 2012, he lived with his sister, Rachel, on the Upper West Side of New York City.
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In June 2014, Jack Antonoff said he was "desperate" for kids, explaining:.
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Jack Antonoff has germophobia which was exacerbated by a bout of pneumonia that he suffered in 2011 while recording a studio album for his band Fun.