James Iovine is an American entrepreneur, record executive, and media proprietor best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records.
25 Facts About Jimmy Iovine
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Jimmy Iovine has been involved in the production of more than 250 albums.
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Jimmy Iovine was purchased by Apple Inc for $3 billion in May 2014.
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James Jimmy Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Italian working-class family.
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Jimmy Iovine's mother was a secretary and his father, Vincent "Jimmy" Iovine, worked on the docks as a longshoreman.
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Jimmy Iovine attended Catholic school in Brooklyn, graduating from the since-closed Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School and went on to attend New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Jimmy Iovine was introduced to music production after he met a songwriter who got him a job cleaning a recording studio, and he soon began working as an engineer.
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Jimmy Iovine came to prominence via his work on the 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which included her Top 40 hit "Because the Night".
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Jimmy Iovine teamed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle and Hum.
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Jimmy Iovine produced Bella Donna, Making Movies for Dire Straits, and Get Close for The Pretenders.
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Jimmy Iovine served as sound engineer for the Voyager Golden Records, a pair of phonograph records which were launched aboard the Voyager space probes in 1977.
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Jimmy Iovine was responsible for supervising the music used in the 1984 romance film Sixteen Candles, Streets of Fire and the 1988 comedy film Scrooged.
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Jimmy Iovine signed Tupac Shakur to a recording contract as one of the first hip-hop acts on the Interscope label in 1991.
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Jimmy Iovine was responsible for providing distribution, initial funding and financial oversight for the highly successful Death Row Records hip-hop label in the 1990s.
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Additionally, Jimmy Iovine executive produced the 2009 LeBron James documentary More than a Game and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
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In 2008, Jimmy Iovine teamed up with Dr Dre to co-found Beats By Dr Dre, a headphones brand.
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Jimmy Iovine had captured 20 percent market share of the headphones industry by 2012.
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In January 2013, Jimmy Iovine announced the expansion of the Beats brand into the online digital music world with Daisy, a new service slated to launch in late 2013.
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Jimmy Iovine was hired to assume an undisclosed position at Apple where he helped in the creation of Apple Music.
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In 2005, Jimmy Iovine made a guest appearance as himself on "Don't Make Me Over", an episode of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.
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From 2011 to 2013, Jimmy Iovine was a mentor on Fox's American Idol.
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On May 17,2013, Jimmy Iovine received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Southern California and gave the 2013 USC commencement address.
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In 2022, Jimmy Iovine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Ahmet Ertegun Award category.
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New York rock radio DJ Carol Miller and Jimmy Iovine had a two-year relationship in the late 1970s.
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Jimmy Iovine was married for 24 years to writer, lawyer, and model Vicki Jimmy Iovine before divorcing; the couple have four children.