Tim & Bob
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Tim & Bob aka Funktwons, are Grammy Award
-winning songwriting musicians and a Hip-hop/R&B
pop
production
duo. Tim & Bob have discovered and or worked on some of the biggest artists in the music industry and has helped develop the Atlanta music scene as it is widely known for today. They have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide and are among the most consistent urban producers in the last 16 years, earning a spot on Billboard's top ten list of producers almost every year since 1998
.
, Tim was raised on R&B
through his father's band. His father was a multi instrumentalist so he quickly learned trumpet (his fathers main instrument), piano, guitar, drums and bass at the early age of 10. From elementary through college, Tim played the trumpet and piano in school band while learning how to read music. He was heavily influenced by pop
radio as well. Bob's deep roots in the church as an organist and piano player since the early age of 9 and all through college brought a wealth of gospel music to the duo. They met through a mutual friend at the local mall right next to a music store. Tim recalls; We stepped in the music store and Bob started playing the piano, I was blown away with his skills to the point that I didn't even try and play, that's how awesome he was and I considered myself pretty good. Tim offered Bob to come by his basement studio where his mom bought enough equipment to record music. From there on, the duo exchanged chord progressions on keyboards and guitar. Bob explains; Tim had so many albums in his basement, every room was filled with em especially from artists I had never heard of. I had a gospel collection myself so we figured out a way to fuse the two together in a way no one was doing at the time, in one months time we came up with a hundred or so tracks. We were ready to take a plane anywhere to make it. Just after a year of meeting, the duo moved to New Orleans for a year then Chicago and Detroit where they found a small production company that had a studio. While working one day they met one of George Clinton's background singers Paul Hill. Impressed by they're musical skills he told them producer Dallas Austin would eventually start looking for producers because of the tragic death of partner Randy Ran. The trio worked on demos day and night until they felt the material recorded was ready to be heard and drove to Atlanta where they eventually met Dallas Austin..
called Sound Suite, and from there moved to Atlanta
, where they met super producer Dallas Austin
. Blown away by their talent, Dallas quickly signed them to his company D.A.R.P. and stamped them as "Tim and Bob". Upon signing with Austin's publishing company the duo began working with artists TLC
, 112
(whom they discovered) and Monica
( which they developed). While living in Detroit Tim & Bob met a host of talent and kept a tight friendship with two talented producer/artists in particular, Tony Rich and Mario Winans
. Bob recalls; We would always hang out in each others studio everyday. We made a brotherly code that whoever made it big first, would pull everyone else in. We just happened to step out the camp first and everything flourished from there. The guys owned up to the promise. Soon after signing with Dallas they gave Rich a call and put him on speaker phone with Dallas and later that week Pebbles (L.A.Reid's then wife). Tim requested Tony to sing one of his songs and just like that Tony was on the next plane to Atlanta where he would eventually become a staff writer at La Face as well as an artist. He would go on to win a grammy in 1997 for "Best R&B Album" entitled "Words". Winans was to follow. In Atlanta for a gospel conference, Mario's career began with a phone call to the duo. Tim recalls; We were in a session and Mario called us and let us know he was in town. We stopped our session to pick him up and crashed Dallas session so he could meet and hear Mario's tracks. After three snippets of his joints Dallas told the duo to work with him on his overall sound and he would sign him to the D.A.R.P family. Winans drove back to Detroit and packed his truck up and drove back. We had a room for him in our then studio/house and he lived with us for a while until he scooped up a couple of projects that came thru D.A.R.P.. I remember letting him borrow my whole break beat collection, he would stay downstairs and work for days without rest until his drums were serious. Dallas and I were very impressed with how fast he picked up on R&B music because during that time he was producing gospel music, the genre didn't allow you to go too places musically back in the early to mid 90's that secular music could obviously but because of Mario and other trailblazers in gospel music, heavy beat driven tracks are excepted which allows us to come back to our roots when called upon. We're very proud of our boys accomplishments. While bringing in more talent to their camp from the midwest and discovering talent along the way, Tim & Bob continued to sharpen their signature sound and production style while developing a gifted and talented 12 year old Monica
which during that time Austin was considering signing her to his Rowdy label. The duo stopped all projects they were scheduled to work on to concentrate on her debut. 15 demos later 5 of them got polished and eventually landed on Monica's first full length cd entitled Miss Thang
. The Rowdy imprint's first project went on to become the most successful one selling 3 million copies. Later on that year the duo hooked up with good friend Darryl Simmons who discovered a young talented female group Destiny's Child
. He informed the guys that he envisioned doing most of the ballads leaving them to handle the uptempos for the first project that was scheduled to come out on his production deal with Elektra records, but after recording 10 songs for the group, creative differences came between Simmons and Elektra and eventually left the group without a label home. A call to Randy Jackson, an up and coming a&r executive at Columbia records at the time, led to a showcase for the label. Impressed by they're performance and especially a then 13 year old lead singer Beyonce, Columbia records signed the group. Tim explains; During the process of recording with the girls, Beyonce's voice changed and Columbia was so eager to put the record out that out of the 10 songs we recorded we only had time to do her vocals over on one because our schedule was crazy at the time as well, we were bummed for a while because we worked very hard to help develop Beyonce into a studio rat, she would ask about every button on the mixing board at 13 years old, we knew she was gonna be a beast so we wanted more songs on the album, but we were blessed to have one that made it and she killed it. The self tiled album "Destinys Child would eventually go on to sell a million copies. Hard work initially helped the duo establish themselves in the music industry as "A" list super producers in just a short period. During this time the two would also garner two Grammy Awards, including one in 1995
for Best R&B Album
for Boyz II Men's
II
and one in 1996
for Best R&B Album
for TLC's Diamond certified
CrazySexyCool
. Tim & Bob would become part of history with producing and writing five songs on the Boyz II Men
lp II
which eventually became the biggest selling album in history by an R&B group and TLC's CrazySexyCool
becoming the biggest selling album by a female R&B group as well. Upon winning consecutive Best R&B Album Grammy's, the duo would continue to produce, simultaneously working on soundtracks, including Def Jam's How to Be a Player, The Players Club
, Poetic Justice, Wild Wild West
, and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
.
They were subsequently brought in by legendary producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
to work on some of their projects. Since the early 90's, Tim & Bob has been dubbed the next Jam and Lewis and credits the legendary hitmakers for recognizing their potential and helping them define their production style,
and signed a publishing deal and a label deal thru executive and famous guitarist Robbie Robertson
with the now defunct DreamWorks Records
, instantly scoring a #1 hit with Jon B.
(“They Don't Know"
), and a top 5 smash for Tamia
(“So Into U"
). Tim & Bob were also very instrumental in getting the rock group Papa Roach
signed to DreamWorks while inking a production deal with Capitol Records. The duo signed Athena Cage from the group Kut Klose and produced the entire lp, but because of a shake up of executives and change of direction at the label the project only produced a single for the movie "Save The Last Dance.
Tim & Bob would produce the biggest song of the year as well as one of Def Jam's biggest songs in the history of the music label. Sisqó's
worldwide #1 hit “Thong Song
” off the LP entitled Unleash the Dragon
has been a summer anthem ever since its release while pushing album sales to 5× Platinum. The song received a multitude of awards including Song Of The Year Hip Hop/Rhythmic at the 2000 Radio Music Awards. It would peak #1 on the New Zealand charts, #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
, #1 Billboard on Rhythmic top 40 and Rhythmic top 40 Airplay and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100
respectively. They would also produce the only #1 billlboard R&B single Case’s "Missing You
", off the gold album Open Letter and Dave Hollister's
"Take Care of Home".
2003 was a special year for the duo. While working with Ronald Isley
and the Isley Brothers, Ron told the duo that he spoke with one of Earth, Wind And Fire front men Philip Bailey
and was told to tell the guys they're big fans of their work and would love to work with them. Instantly Tim & Bob responded to the honor and grabbed a studio room right next to the Isley Brothers session and worked on both simultaneously. Subsequently the results were dubbing two Grammy nods for both, Best R&B Album Isley Brothers Body Kiss
and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for the song Tim & Bob wrote and produced entitled "Hold Me" from the LP The Promise. It was Earth, Wind And Fire's first Grammy nomination in 10 years which made it that more special for the guys. Tim stated:
producing Bobby Valentino’s Asian R&B
influenced, "Slow Down
" (#1 for four consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
) and "Tell Me
" from Valentino’s Platinum certified debut album, Disturbing tha Peace Presents Bobby Valentino
. In 2006
, Tim & Bob signed a new publishing deal with Dimensional Music Publishing and began working on Bobby Valentino's second album Special Occasion, from which they produced six tracks. Their most recent projects include Jennifer Lopez’
Platinum certified album Rebirth
("Cherry Pie” and "I, Love"); Brian McKnight’s
Ten
("Used to Be My Girl
", "Unhappy Without You", "Again", "Can't Leave You Alone"); Donell Jones’
Journey of a Gemini
("I'm Gonna Be", "Feelin' You", "Can't Wait", "I'm Gonna Be"); Hilary Duff's
Dignity
("I Wish"); Nas
, Joe
, Musiq Soulchild, Ron Isley, Brandy
, Tyrese, Amerie
, Mýa
, Usher
, LaToya
, Slim of 112
, Busta Rhymes
, Jamie Foxx
("Life is Good"); The Black Eyed Peas
, Bobby Valentino's The Rebirth
("Make You the Only One," “3 Is the New 2,” “On The Edge,” “You're Not Alone,” “Give Me Your Heart,” and “Your Smile"); Day 26's
Forever in a Day ("Think of Me" and "Reminds Me of You"); and their artists Mahagani and Chico. The duo is currently hard at work on Slim's (former 112 frontman) project slated for a 2010 summer release as well as working on a TV reality series
called Producers Diary, which showcases a producer's life, starting with themselves for the first 13 episodes. In 2009. Tim & Bob produced half of Bobby V's latest project "Fly On The Wall and reunited with Boyz II Men and produced four new tracks including reproducing "'Motown Philly on the new double cd entitled Twenty.
Tim & Bob continue to produce hits for the music industry’s most accomplished artists. When asked why they think they have been so successful, Bob stated,
", director Erik White and the Duo became friends and even more so a creative force together instantly. White became a fan of the musical direction Tim and Bob had set for Bobby V's platinum debut so much that he directed the next single, titled "Tell Me
", featuring Lil Wayne
as well. While on location for the video in Miami, Erik informed them that his future move would be directing films and insisted that they give his movies musical life. They talked about forming a company to do everything in house. Five years later, White kept his word by giving the duo a shot at scoring his directing debut into the film world with the movie Lottery Ticket. Instantly Tim and Bob went to work on one scene at a time eventually impressing another key person and one of the producers of the film Matt Alverez. The continuous work led to the duo's first movie score credit. When asked the difference between producing an artist as opposed to doing film scoring Tim replied: "the difference is like night and day, when we're producing an artist we're always battling for the first single in a single driven industry while walking a fine line between being as creative as we can without sacrificing our awareness of radio friendly records. While scoring a film, the musician side of us can really come to the forefront because everything we've learned about music thru out the years can be showcased without any boundaries and it allows more space to experiment with sounds, crafting and molding musical images while capturing moments of different emotions by landscaping thru creativity, there's nothing like it if your musicality is itching for a scratch, nothing like it."
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|rowspan="3" | || rowspan="2"| Boyz ll Men || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
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| Favorite Pop/Rock Album ||
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| TLC || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="1" | || Sisqo || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
are sponsored by Billboard
magazine and is held annually in December.
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||rowspan="1"| Jon B. || Hot R&B Single of the Year ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||rowspan="1" |Jon B. || Hot R&B Single Sales ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 ||rowspan="1"| Sisqo || R&B/Hip Hop Single of the Year ||
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|rowspan=2| 2001||rowspan=2|Case || R&B/Hip Hop Single of the Year ||
|rowspan="2"| 1995 || rowspan="2"| Boyz ll Men "II" || Favorite CD ||
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| Favorite R&B CD ||
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|rowspan=1| 2001 || Joe "My Name Is Joe" || Favorite Male Artist R&B CD ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1993 || Get It Up || TLC ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1994 || Vibin || Boyz ll Men ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1996 || Come See Me || 112 ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||They Don't Know || Jon B. ||
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|rowpan="1"| 1998 ||So Into You || Tamia ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 ||Thong Song || Sisqo ||
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|rowspan=1| 2002 ||Missing You || Case ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2003 ||Into You || Fabolous ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2005 || Slow Down || Bobby V ||
|rowspan="1"|2007 ||Revealed || Deitrick Haddon ||
s are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
of the United States.
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|rowspan="1"| || II || Best R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| || "CrazySexyCool
" || Best R&B Album ||
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|rowspan=1| || "Tamia
" || Best R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| || "My Name is Joe
" || Best R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="3"| || "Thong Song
" || Best R&B Song ||
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|"Thong Song
" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
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|"Unleash The Dragon
" || Best R&B Album ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| || "Missing You
" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
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|rowspan="2"| || "Body Kiss
" || Best R&B Album ||
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|"Hold Me" || Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance ||
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|rowspan=1| || "Dignity
" || Best Pop Vocal Album ||
.
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|rowspan="1"| 1996 || Deborah Cox
|| Best R&B/Soul Recording ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1999 || Tamia
|| Best R&B/Soul Recording ||
is an annual awards ceremony established in 1984 by MTV
.
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|rowspan="3"| || rowspan=3| Thong Song || Best Hip Hop Video ||
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| Best Dance Video ||
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| Best Viewer's Choice ||
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|rowspan="1"| || Thong Song (Remix Feat. Foxy Brown) || Best Video From A Film ||
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|rowspan="2"| 1998 || rowspan=2| They Don't Know || Jon B. ||
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| R&B Single Sales ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 || Thong Song || Best Video ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2001 || Joe/ My Name Is Joe|| Outstanding Music Album ||
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|rowspan="1"|2002 || Tyrese/ 2000 Watts ||Outstanding Hip Hop Artist ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 || Thong Song || Hip Hop/ Rhythmic Song Of The Year ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1996 || CrazySexyCool
|| Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1998 || Destiny's Child
|| Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year ||
is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication that honors the best in Black music and entertainment.
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|rowspan="1"| 1995 || ll || Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1997 || CrazySexyCool
|| Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 || They Don't Know || Best Male Single ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 || J.E. Heartbreak || Best R&B Album Group, Band or Duo ||
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|rowspan="2"| 2001 || Part lll || Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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| Unleash The Dragon || Favorite Male R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="2"| 2003 || Body Kiss || Best R&B Album ||
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| Body Kiss || Best R&B/Soul Album - Group, Band or Duo ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2006 || Slow Down || Best R&B Soul Single ||
Tim and Bob Interview with sixshot.com
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning songwriting musicians and a Hip-hop/R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
production
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
duo. Tim & Bob have discovered and or worked on some of the biggest artists in the music industry and has helped develop the Atlanta music scene as it is widely known for today. They have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide and are among the most consistent urban producers in the last 16 years, earning a spot on Billboard's top ten list of producers almost every year since 1998
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
.
Biography
Growing up in Peoria, IllinoisPeoria, Illinois
Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...
, Tim was raised on R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
through his father's band. His father was a multi instrumentalist so he quickly learned trumpet (his fathers main instrument), piano, guitar, drums and bass at the early age of 10. From elementary through college, Tim played the trumpet and piano in school band while learning how to read music. He was heavily influenced by pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
radio as well. Bob's deep roots in the church as an organist and piano player since the early age of 9 and all through college brought a wealth of gospel music to the duo. They met through a mutual friend at the local mall right next to a music store. Tim recalls; We stepped in the music store and Bob started playing the piano, I was blown away with his skills to the point that I didn't even try and play, that's how awesome he was and I considered myself pretty good. Tim offered Bob to come by his basement studio where his mom bought enough equipment to record music. From there on, the duo exchanged chord progressions on keyboards and guitar. Bob explains; Tim had so many albums in his basement, every room was filled with em especially from artists I had never heard of. I had a gospel collection myself so we figured out a way to fuse the two together in a way no one was doing at the time, in one months time we came up with a hundred or so tracks. We were ready to take a plane anywhere to make it. Just after a year of meeting, the duo moved to New Orleans for a year then Chicago and Detroit where they found a small production company that had a studio. While working one day they met one of George Clinton's background singers Paul Hill. Impressed by they're musical skills he told them producer Dallas Austin would eventually start looking for producers because of the tragic death of partner Randy Ran. The trio worked on demos day and night until they felt the material recorded was ready to be heard and drove to Atlanta where they eventually met Dallas Austin..
1993-1996
They initially got their start at a famous recording studio in DetroitDetroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
called Sound Suite, and from there moved to Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
, where they met super producer Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of his most notable clients include Michael Jackson, TLC, Boyz II Men, Pink, Monica, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Stacie Orrico, Another Bad Creation, Fishbone, Sugababes, Anastacia, Namie Amuro, Kim...
. Blown away by their talent, Dallas quickly signed them to his company D.A.R.P. and stamped them as "Tim and Bob". Upon signing with Austin's publishing company the duo began working with artists TLC
TLC (band)
TLC is an American musical trio whose repertoire spanned R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, and new jack swing. Originally consisting of singer Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, rapper-singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas it found success in the 1990s while also enduring a series of spats...
, 112
112 (band)
112 is an American R&B quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with hits such as "Only You", "Anywhere" and "Peaches & Cream"...
(whom they discovered) and Monica
Monica (singer)
Monica Denise Brown , and professionally known as Monica, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, Monica began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir, by the time she was ten...
( which they developed). While living in Detroit Tim & Bob met a host of talent and kept a tight friendship with two talented producer/artists in particular, Tony Rich and Mario Winans
Mario Winans
Mario Winans is an American R&B singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin...
. Bob recalls; We would always hang out in each others studio everyday. We made a brotherly code that whoever made it big first, would pull everyone else in. We just happened to step out the camp first and everything flourished from there. The guys owned up to the promise. Soon after signing with Dallas they gave Rich a call and put him on speaker phone with Dallas and later that week Pebbles (L.A.Reid's then wife). Tim requested Tony to sing one of his songs and just like that Tony was on the next plane to Atlanta where he would eventually become a staff writer at La Face as well as an artist. He would go on to win a grammy in 1997 for "Best R&B Album" entitled "Words". Winans was to follow. In Atlanta for a gospel conference, Mario's career began with a phone call to the duo. Tim recalls; We were in a session and Mario called us and let us know he was in town. We stopped our session to pick him up and crashed Dallas session so he could meet and hear Mario's tracks. After three snippets of his joints Dallas told the duo to work with him on his overall sound and he would sign him to the D.A.R.P family. Winans drove back to Detroit and packed his truck up and drove back. We had a room for him in our then studio/house and he lived with us for a while until he scooped up a couple of projects that came thru D.A.R.P.. I remember letting him borrow my whole break beat collection, he would stay downstairs and work for days without rest until his drums were serious. Dallas and I were very impressed with how fast he picked up on R&B music because during that time he was producing gospel music, the genre didn't allow you to go too places musically back in the early to mid 90's that secular music could obviously but because of Mario and other trailblazers in gospel music, heavy beat driven tracks are excepted which allows us to come back to our roots when called upon. We're very proud of our boys accomplishments. While bringing in more talent to their camp from the midwest and discovering talent along the way, Tim & Bob continued to sharpen their signature sound and production style while developing a gifted and talented 12 year old Monica
Monica (singer)
Monica Denise Brown , and professionally known as Monica, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, Monica began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir, by the time she was ten...
which during that time Austin was considering signing her to his Rowdy label. The duo stopped all projects they were scheduled to work on to concentrate on her debut. 15 demos later 5 of them got polished and eventually landed on Monica's first full length cd entitled Miss Thang
Miss Thang
Miss Thang is the debut studio album by American R&B recording artist Monica Arnold. It was released by Rowdy and Arista Records on July 18, 1995 in the United States, featuring main production by mentor Dallas Austin protégés from his DARP production camp such as Tim & Bob, Darryl Simmons, Colin...
. The Rowdy imprint's first project went on to become the most successful one selling 3 million copies. Later on that year the duo hooked up with good friend Darryl Simmons who discovered a young talented female group Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...
. He informed the guys that he envisioned doing most of the ballads leaving them to handle the uptempos for the first project that was scheduled to come out on his production deal with Elektra records, but after recording 10 songs for the group, creative differences came between Simmons and Elektra and eventually left the group without a label home. A call to Randy Jackson, an up and coming a&r executive at Columbia records at the time, led to a showcase for the label. Impressed by they're performance and especially a then 13 year old lead singer Beyonce, Columbia records signed the group. Tim explains; During the process of recording with the girls, Beyonce's voice changed and Columbia was so eager to put the record out that out of the 10 songs we recorded we only had time to do her vocals over on one because our schedule was crazy at the time as well, we were bummed for a while because we worked very hard to help develop Beyonce into a studio rat, she would ask about every button on the mixing board at 13 years old, we knew she was gonna be a beast so we wanted more songs on the album, but we were blessed to have one that made it and she killed it. The self tiled album "Destinys Child would eventually go on to sell a million copies. Hard work initially helped the duo establish themselves in the music industry as "A" list super producers in just a short period. During this time the two would also garner two Grammy Awards, including one in 1995
Grammy Awards of 1995
The 37th Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1995. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.-Award winners:*Record of the Year**Bill Bottrell & Sheryl Crow for "All I Wanna Do"*Album of the Year...
for Best R&B Album
Grammy Award for Best R&B Album
The Grammy Award for Best R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works on albums in the R&B music genre...
for Boyz II Men's
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are the most successful R&B group of all time, having sold more than albums worldwide. In the 1990s, Boyz II Men found fame on Motown Records as a quartet, but original member Michael McCary...
II
II (Boyz II Men album)
II is the second studio album by boy band Boyz II Men, released in August 1994 on Motown Records. It contained the #1 singles "I'll Make Love To You" and "On Bended Knee", the latter of which replaced the former at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, making the group the third artist to replace...
and one in 1996
Grammy Awards of 1996
The 38th Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Alanis Morissette was the night's big winner, scoring four trophies, including Album of the Year.-Award winners:...
for Best R&B Album
Grammy Award for Best R&B Album
The Grammy Award for Best R&B Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works on albums in the R&B music genre...
for TLC's Diamond certified
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...
. Tim & Bob would become part of history with producing and writing five songs on the Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are the most successful R&B group of all time, having sold more than albums worldwide. In the 1990s, Boyz II Men found fame on Motown Records as a quartet, but original member Michael McCary...
lp II
II (Boyz II Men album)
II is the second studio album by boy band Boyz II Men, released in August 1994 on Motown Records. It contained the #1 singles "I'll Make Love To You" and "On Bended Knee", the latter of which replaced the former at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, making the group the third artist to replace...
which eventually became the biggest selling album in history by an R&B group and TLC's CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...
becoming the biggest selling album by a female R&B group as well. Upon winning consecutive Best R&B Album Grammy's, the duo would continue to produce, simultaneously working on soundtracks, including Def Jam's How to Be a Player, The Players Club
The Players Club
The Players Club is a 1998 comedy/drama thriller film from New Line Cinema starring Bernie Mac, LisaRaye, and Jamie Foxx. Ice Cube, who has a small role in the film, wrote and made his directorial debut. The movie made $5,894,607 in its opening week...
, Poetic Justice, Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline , Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek.Similar to the original TV series it was based on, The Wild Wild West, the film features a large amount of gadgetry...
, and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps is a 2000 comedy film directed by Peter Segal. It is the sequel to the 1996 film The Nutty Professor and stars Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson. Murphy plays not only the inept but brilliant scientist, Sherman Klump, as in the first film, but also most of Sherman's...
.
They were subsequently brought in by legendary producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B and pop-music songwriting and record production team...
to work on some of their projects. Since the early 90's, Tim & Bob has been dubbed the next Jam and Lewis and credits the legendary hitmakers for recognizing their potential and helping them define their production style,
1997-1999
Upon becoming a household name in the music industry, the team knew it was time to move out on their own. Soon after departing Dallas Austin, they relocated to Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and signed a publishing deal and a label deal thru executive and famous guitarist Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
with the now defunct DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...
, instantly scoring a #1 hit with Jon B.
Jon B.
Jon B. is a Grammy nominated American R&B singer and songwriter.-Early life:...
(“They Don't Know"
They Don't Know (Jon B song)
"They Don't Know" is a single by R&B singer Jon B released in 1998. Jon B also performed the song in an episode of the sitcom, Sister, Sister, where he guest starred as himself...
), and a top 5 smash for Tamia
Tamia
Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...
(“So Into U"
So Into You (song)
"So Into You" is a song by Tamia, released as her seventh single.It was produced by Tim & Bob and was the last of two singles released in 1998. The single was released on Tamia's debut self-titled Tamia. The song uses a modified sample from The Commodores single "Say Yeah"...
). Tim & Bob were also very instrumental in getting the rock group Papa Roach
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Their first major-label release was the triple-platinum album Infest . The group's success continued with their gold album Lovehatetragedy , their platinum album Getting Away with Murder , The Paramour Sessions , and Metamorphosis...
signed to DreamWorks while inking a production deal with Capitol Records. The duo signed Athena Cage from the group Kut Klose and produced the entire lp, but because of a shake up of executives and change of direction at the label the project only produced a single for the movie "Save The Last Dance.
Thong Song
In 20002000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
Tim & Bob would produce the biggest song of the year as well as one of Def Jam's biggest songs in the history of the music label. Sisqó's
Sisqó
Mark Durrell Andrews , known by his stage name Sisqó, is an American R&B singer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and also for "Thong Song", a song from his first solo LP, Unleash the Dragon, that became an international hit. - Biography :Sisqó was born Mark...
worldwide #1 hit “Thong Song
Thong Song
"Thong Song" is a 2000 song recorded by Sisqó of Dru Hill for the Def Soul imprint of Def Jam. The song was issued as the second single from Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon LP in February 2000, and was its second biggest hit....
” off the LP entitled Unleash the Dragon
Unleash the Dragon
-Chart and singles history:...
has been a summer anthem ever since its release while pushing album sales to 5× Platinum. The song received a multitude of awards including Song Of The Year Hip Hop/Rhythmic at the 2000 Radio Music Awards. It would peak #1 on the New Zealand charts, #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
, #1 Billboard on Rhythmic top 40 and Rhythmic top 40 Airplay and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
respectively. They would also produce the only #1 billlboard R&B single Case’s "Missing You
Missing You (Case song)
"Missing You" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Case. It was produced by Tim & Bob and released as the album's first single. The song itself is a cover of the same song done by Joe the year before. The hit song spent four weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart.The song was covered...
", off the gold album Open Letter and Dave Hollister's
Dave Hollister
Dave Hollister is an American R&B vocalist who found fame during the 1990s as one quarter of the Platinum-selling R&B quartet Blackstreet before going on to a solo career.-Biography:...
"Take Care of Home".
2003 was a special year for the duo. While working with Ronald Isley
Ronald Isley
Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...
and the Isley Brothers, Ron told the duo that he spoke with one of Earth, Wind And Fire front men Philip Bailey
Philip Bailey
Philip Irvin Bailey is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as one of the longtime members of Earth, Wind & Fire. Together with Verdine White, B. David Whitworth, and Ralph Johnson he forms the heart of the current EWF line-up on...
and was told to tell the guys they're big fans of their work and would love to work with them. Instantly Tim & Bob responded to the honor and grabbed a studio room right next to the Isley Brothers session and worked on both simultaneously. Subsequently the results were dubbing two Grammy nods for both, Best R&B Album Isley Brothers Body Kiss
Body Kiss
Body Kiss is the twenty-ninth studio album by The Isley Brothers on the DreamWorks label. Almost solely written, arranged, composed and produced by longtime collaborator R...
and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for the song Tim & Bob wrote and produced entitled "Hold Me" from the LP The Promise. It was Earth, Wind And Fire's first Grammy nomination in 10 years which made it that more special for the guys. Tim stated:
2004-Present
Tim & Bob would strike again in early 20052005 in music
-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
producing Bobby Valentino’s Asian R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
influenced, "Slow Down
Slow Down (Bobby Valentino song)
"Slow Down" is the debut single by American singer Bobby Valentino from his first self-titled album Bobby Valentino. Produced by Tim & Bob, it spent four consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. The music video was...
" (#1 for four consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
) and "Tell Me
Tell Me (Bobby Valentino song)
"Tell Me" is the second single produced by Tim & Bob from Bobby Valentino's debut album Bobby Valentino. The song sampled "For the World" composed by Tan Dun on the Hero soundtrack, starring Jet Li...
" from Valentino’s Platinum certified debut album, Disturbing tha Peace Presents Bobby Valentino
Bobby Valentino (album)
Bobby Valentino is the self-titled debut album from american R&B singer Bobby Valentino, released on the 26th of April, 2005. The album was primarily produced and executive produced by the duo Tim & Bob and includes the singles "Slow Down", "Tell Me", and "My Angel ". It debuted at #3 on the U.S...
. In 2006
2006 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....
, Tim & Bob signed a new publishing deal with Dimensional Music Publishing and began working on Bobby Valentino's second album Special Occasion, from which they produced six tracks. Their most recent projects include Jennifer Lopez’
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
Platinum certified album Rebirth
Rebirth (Jennifer Lopez album)
"Rebirth" received an aggregate score of 52/100 from Metacritic, denoting "Mixed or average reviews". Allmusic gave the album four stars and stated that "Since it doesn't deviate from the blueprint she's followed on her first three albums, it's hard to call this record a literal creative rebirth,...
("Cherry Pie” and "I, Love"); Brian McKnight’s
Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B/Pop musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet....
Ten
Ten (Brian McKnight album)
Ten is an album by Brian McKnight released in 2006. It was his first on Warner Bros. Records.McKnight is said to be experimenting with country-style music on the album.Rhapsody had a week long Ten is an album by Brian McKnight released in 2006. It was his first on Warner Bros. Records.McKnight is...
("Used to Be My Girl
Used to Be My Girl
"Used to Be My Girl" is a single by Brian McKnight, released in 2006 from Ten. It was produced by Tim & Bob. The song peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.The album serves the first official single on October 17, 2006....
", "Unhappy Without You", "Again", "Can't Leave You Alone"); Donell Jones’
Donell Jones
Donell Jones is an American R&B singer, songwriter and record producer.He is most notable for the hits "U Know What's Up," "Where I Wanna Be," and his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet"...
Journey of a Gemini
Journey of a Gemini
Samples* "Cry" samples "Sara Smile" by Hall & Oates* "Feelin' You" samples "Experience" by Daedelus* "Can't Wait" contains a sample from "Masquerade" by Ab.* "Lust or Love" contains a portion of the composition entitled "Inside My Love" by Minnie Riperton...
("I'm Gonna Be", "Feelin' You", "Can't Wait", "I'm Gonna Be"); Hilary Duff's
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...
Dignity
Dignity (album)
Dignity is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Hilary Duff. The album was released on April 3, 2007 by Hollywood Records. Between the releases of her previous studio album, Hilary Duff , and Dignity, she had an eventful personal life; she was stalked by a man who threatened her...
("I Wish"); Nas
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...
, Joe
Joe (singer)
Joseph Lewis Thomas , usually credited simply as Joe, is an American R&B singer and record producer.-Early life:Joe is a native of Cuthbert, Georgia and later moved to Opelika, Alabama. The son of two preachers, Joe spent much time in church singing, playing guitar, and even directing the choir...
, Musiq Soulchild, Ron Isley, Brandy
Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and dancer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego Bran'Nu....
, Tyrese, Amerie
Amerie
Amerie Mi Marie Rogers , known professionally as Amerie or Ameriie, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She debuted in 2002 with the album All I Have, primarily co-written and produced by Rich Harrison, and was well-received in the urban market...
, Mýa
Mya
-A person:* Bo Mya , Chief Commander of the Karen National Union* Mýa , American R&B singer-songwriter and actress** Mýa , a 1998 album by Mýa-A code:* Burmese language, ISO 639-3 code is mya* Moruya Airport's IATA code...
, Usher
Usher (entertainer)
Usher Terry Raymond IV , who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer-songwriter, and actor. He is considered around the world to be the reigning King of R&B. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100...
, LaToya
LeToya Luckett
LeToya Nicole Luckett , known professionally as LeToya, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She was a member of the R&B group Destiny's Child, with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many successful commercial recordings.After signing a record deal with Capitol Records, she's...
, Slim of 112
112 (band)
112 is an American R&B quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with hits such as "Only You", "Anywhere" and "Peaches & Cream"...
, Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...
, Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop , professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a...
("Life is Good"); The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...
, Bobby Valentino's The Rebirth
The Rebirth
-Chart performance:...
("Make You the Only One," “3 Is the New 2,” “On The Edge,” “You're Not Alone,” “Give Me Your Heart,” and “Your Smile"); Day 26's
Day26
Day26 is an American male R&B music group formed on August 26, 2007 by Sean "Diddy" Combs in a handpicked selection at the end of MTV's Making the Band 4. The group consists of Robert Curry, Brian Andrews, Willie Taylor, and Michael McCluney. The moniker is a tribute to the day when Andrews,...
Forever in a Day ("Think of Me" and "Reminds Me of You"); and their artists Mahagani and Chico. The duo is currently hard at work on Slim's (former 112 frontman) project slated for a 2010 summer release as well as working on a TV reality series
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
called Producers Diary, which showcases a producer's life, starting with themselves for the first 13 episodes. In 2009. Tim & Bob produced half of Bobby V's latest project "Fly On The Wall and reunited with Boyz II Men and produced four new tracks including reproducing "'Motown Philly on the new double cd entitled Twenty.
Tim & Bob continue to produce hits for the music industry’s most accomplished artists. When asked why they think they have been so successful, Bob stated,
Producer's Diary
Tim & Bob's Producer Diary is in production after a series of test runs last year. As stated the guys will be the talent for the first 13 episodes bringing everyone into their world showing the life experiences of in demand producers. The show will take the audience on a journey into the mind of creators of landscapes carved out for artist's to possibly have a career just with one hit record. Tim explains; "We're really excited about this opportunity to show what a producers job is while introducing our process of making records. Every producer has a different creative approach. When we came into the game it was so different, it was more musicianship, mid tempos and slow joints were more excepted and played on the radio. These days it's all about tempo which is not much music in a club song, so it's causing young aspiring producers to be just beat driven which for now seems cool but everything has it's cycle, it's gonna come back to real songwriting so with the show we're gonna show the old school approach to producing as well, Most new cats that come in the game are so confused about the definition of a producer because of what's on the radio today hopefully we can teach and inspire young producers how important it is to be well rounded as a producer/ writer, you can never gather enough information."Lottery Ticket (film)
In 2005 on the set of Bobby V's video "Slow DownSlow Down (Bobby Valentino song)
"Slow Down" is the debut single by American singer Bobby Valentino from his first self-titled album Bobby Valentino. Produced by Tim & Bob, it spent four consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. The music video was...
", director Erik White and the Duo became friends and even more so a creative force together instantly. White became a fan of the musical direction Tim and Bob had set for Bobby V's platinum debut so much that he directed the next single, titled "Tell Me
Tell Me (Bobby Valentino song)
"Tell Me" is the second single produced by Tim & Bob from Bobby Valentino's debut album Bobby Valentino. The song sampled "For the World" composed by Tan Dun on the Hero soundtrack, starring Jet Li...
", featuring Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...
as well. While on location for the video in Miami, Erik informed them that his future move would be directing films and insisted that they give his movies musical life. They talked about forming a company to do everything in house. Five years later, White kept his word by giving the duo a shot at scoring his directing debut into the film world with the movie Lottery Ticket. Instantly Tim and Bob went to work on one scene at a time eventually impressing another key person and one of the producers of the film Matt Alverez. The continuous work led to the duo's first movie score credit. When asked the difference between producing an artist as opposed to doing film scoring Tim replied: "the difference is like night and day, when we're producing an artist we're always battling for the first single in a single driven industry while walking a fine line between being as creative as we can without sacrificing our awareness of radio friendly records. While scoring a film, the musician side of us can really come to the forefront because everything we've learned about music thru out the years can be showcased without any boundaries and it allows more space to experiment with sounds, crafting and molding musical images while capturing moments of different emotions by landscaping thru creativity, there's nothing like it if your musicality is itching for a scratch, nothing like it."
American Music Awards
The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973.|-
|rowspan="3" | || rowspan="2"| Boyz ll Men || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
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| Favorite Pop/Rock Album ||
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| TLC || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="1" | || Sisqo || Favorite Soul/R&B Album ||
Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
The Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop AwardsBillboard Music Award
The Billboard Music Award is an honor given by Billboard magazine, the preeminent publication covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually in December until it went dormant in 2007, but it returned in May 2011...
are sponsored by Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine and is held annually in December.
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||rowspan="1"| Jon B. || Hot R&B Single of the Year ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||rowspan="1" |Jon B. || Hot R&B Single Sales ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 ||rowspan="1"| Sisqo || R&B/Hip Hop Single of the Year ||
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|rowspan=2| 2001||rowspan=2|Case || R&B/Hip Hop Single of the Year ||
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
|-|rowspan="2"| 1995 || rowspan="2"| Boyz ll Men "II" || Favorite CD ||
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| Favorite R&B CD ||
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|rowspan=1| 2001 || Joe "My Name Is Joe" || Favorite Male Artist R&B CD ||
Broadcast Music Inc. Awards
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) is one of three United States performing rights organizations that holds a series of annual awards shows.|-
|rowspan="1"| 1993 || Get It Up || TLC ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1994 || Vibin || Boyz ll Men ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1996 || Come See Me || 112 ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 ||They Don't Know || Jon B. ||
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|rowpan="1"| 1998 ||So Into You || Tamia ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 ||Thong Song || Sisqo ||
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|rowspan=1| 2002 ||Missing You || Case ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2003 ||Into You || Fabolous ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2005 || Slow Down || Bobby V ||
Dove Awards
|-|rowspan="1"|2007 ||Revealed || Deitrick Haddon ||
Grammy Awards
The Grammy AwardGrammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS, is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its...
of the United States.
|-
|rowspan="1"| || II || Best R&B Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| || "CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...
" || Best R&B Album ||
|-
|rowspan=1| || "Tamia
Tamia
Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...
" || Best R&B Album ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| || "My Name is Joe
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...
" || Best R&B Album ||
|-
|rowspan="3"| || "Thong Song
Thong Song
"Thong Song" is a 2000 song recorded by Sisqó of Dru Hill for the Def Soul imprint of Def Jam. The song was issued as the second single from Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon LP in February 2000, and was its second biggest hit....
" || Best R&B Song ||
|-
|"Thong Song
Thong Song
"Thong Song" is a 2000 song recorded by Sisqó of Dru Hill for the Def Soul imprint of Def Jam. The song was issued as the second single from Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon LP in February 2000, and was its second biggest hit....
" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
|"Unleash The Dragon
Unleash the Dragon
-Chart and singles history:...
" || Best R&B Album ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| || "Missing You
Missing You (Case song)
"Missing You" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Case. It was produced by Tim & Bob and released as the album's first single. The song itself is a cover of the same song done by Joe the year before. The hit song spent four weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart.The song was covered...
" || Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| || "Body Kiss
Body Kiss
Body Kiss is the twenty-ninth studio album by The Isley Brothers on the DreamWorks label. Almost solely written, arranged, composed and produced by longtime collaborator R...
" || Best R&B Album ||
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|"Hold Me" || Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance ||
|-
|rowspan=1| || "Dignity
Dignity (album)
Dignity is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Hilary Duff. The album was released on April 3, 2007 by Hollywood Records. Between the releases of her previous studio album, Hilary Duff , and Dignity, she had an eventful personal life; she was stalked by a man who threatened her...
" || Best Pop Vocal Album ||
Juno Awards
The Juno Awards is a Canadian awards ceremony presented annually by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and SciencesCanadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is the organization responsible for conducting the Juno Awards, Canada's primary national musical honours...
.
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1996 || Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart , a record held for nearly eight years. She has achieved ten number-one hits on...
|| Best R&B/Soul Recording ||
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1999 || Tamia
Tamia
Tamia Hill , and known professionally as Tamia, is a four-time Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, model, entrepreneur and philanthropist, as well as an occasional actress.She is best known for her 2000 hit "Stranger In My House" and Fabolous' 2003...
|| Best R&B/Soul Recording ||
MTV Video Music Awards
The MTV Video Music AwardsMTV Video Music Awards
An MTV Video Music Award , is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in music videos...
is an annual awards ceremony established in 1984 by MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
.
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|rowspan="3"| || rowspan=3| Thong Song || Best Hip Hop Video ||
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| Best Dance Video ||
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| Best Viewer's Choice ||
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|rowspan="1"| || Thong Song (Remix Feat. Foxy Brown) || Best Video From A Film ||
Music Of Black Origin Awards
The Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, established in 1995 by Kanya King MBE and Andy Ruffell, are held annually in the UK to recognise artists of any race or nationality performing black music.|-
|rowspan="2"| 1998 || rowspan=2| They Don't Know || Jon B. ||
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| R&B Single Sales ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 || Thong Song || Best Video ||
NAACP Image Awards
The NAACP Image Awards is an award presented annually by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature.|-
|rowspan="1"| 2001 || Joe/ My Name Is Joe|| Outstanding Music Album ||
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|rowspan="1"|2002 || Tyrese/ 2000 Watts ||Outstanding Hip Hop Artist ||
Radio Music Awards
The Radio Music Awards was an annual U.S. award show that honors the year's most successful songs on mainstream radio.|-
|rowspan="1"| 2000 || Thong Song || Hip Hop/ Rhythmic Song Of The Year ||
Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards
The Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, first airing in 1995, celebrated top achievements by female performers.|-
|rowspan="1"| 1996 || CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...
|| Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 || Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...
|| Best R&B/Soul Album of The Year ||
Soul Train Music Awards
The Soul Train Music AwardsSoul Train Music Awards
The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment...
is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication that honors the best in Black music and entertainment.
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|rowspan="1"| 1995 || ll || Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1997 || CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool
CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...
|| Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="1"| 1998 || They Don't Know || Best Male Single ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2000 || J.E. Heartbreak || Best R&B Album Group, Band or Duo ||
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|rowspan="2"| 2001 || Part lll || Best R&B/Soul Album ||
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| Unleash The Dragon || Favorite Male R&B/Soul Album ||
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|rowspan="2"| 2003 || Body Kiss || Best R&B Album ||
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| Body Kiss || Best R&B/Soul Album - Group, Band or Duo ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2006 || Slow Down || Best R&B Soul Single ||
External links
French group dedicated to Tim & Bob on SoulRnB.comTim and Bob Interview with sixshot.com