Super-producer Timbaland has stamped his indelible imprint
on the music scene since the mid-1990s. His production has helped create
career-defining hits for artists such as Jodeci, Aaliyah, Ginuwine, Missy
Elliott, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg and Jay-Z, among many
others. Respected beyond the genres of urban and hip hop music,
Timbaland, whose musical influences cross cultural lines, has also been sought
by diverse superstars whose music similarly knows no boundaries, from pop star
Justin Timberlake to avant-singer Bjork. Released April 3, 2007 is his
second solo album, Timbaland Presents Shock Value (Blackground/Interscope/Mosley Music Group). That disc
follows his producing of the majority of the tracks, including the #1
“SexyBack,” on Timberlake’s #1 charting, multiplatinum FutureSex/LoveSounds,
which followed their work together on Timberlake’s previous smash, Justified.
Born Timothy Z. Mosley in Norfolk, Virginia on March 10, 1972, Timbaland, so
named by Jodeci member Devante Swing after the Timberland boot, has had many
reincarnations--from disc jockey DJ Tiny Tim to half of the hip hop group
Timbaland & Magoo; from membership in Devante Swing’s Swing Mob crew known
as Da Bassment to S.B.I. (Surrounded By Idiots), a production ensemble including
Pharrell Williams, to being CEO of his own label, Mosley Music Group. Along the
way he built an impressive 5,000 square foot studio in Virginia Beach where he
does most of his production, and he regularly travels between that location,
his Miami residence and the West Coast. In 2006 he founded a new label, again
at Interscope, appropriately called Mosely Music Group (MMG). Open to all types
of artists, MMG debuted with a bang: Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous” featuring
Timbaland, which hit #1, as did her album, Loose.
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