James Iovine (/ˈaɪ.É™viË n/ EYE-É™-veen; Italian: [ˈjoË vine]; born
March 11, 1953) is an American entrepreneur, record executive, and
media proprietor best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records.
In 2006, Iovine and rapper-producer Dr. Dre founded Beats Electronics,
which produces audio products and operated a now-defunct music
streaming service. The company was purchased by Apple Inc. for $3
billion in May 2014.Prior to the Apple acquisition of Beats in 2014,
Iovine became chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M, an umbrella unit
merged by the then-newly-reincarnated Universal Music Group in
1999.James Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Italian
working-class family. His mother was a secretary and his father,
Vincent "Jimmy" Iovine, worked on the docks as a longshoreman. His
father's death and his love for Christmas inspired Jimmy to record A
Very Special Christmas in 1985. 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. At 19, he was a college dropout. He 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 a studio
professional. Since the start of his career, Iovine has been involved
in the production of more than 250 albums.In the early 1970s, Iovine
became a recording engineer, working with John Lennon and Bruce
Springsteen, among others. By 1973, Iovine was on staff at the New
York studio the Record Plant, where he worked on Springsteen's Born to
Run and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell albums. He came to prominence via
his work on the 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which included her Top
40 hit "Because the Night". He teamed with Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle and Hum. Iovine
also produced Bella Donna (the first solo album for Stevie Nicks),
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