Biography

In collaboration with partner Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis emerged as one of the most successful producers and writers of the 1980s, his long history of pace-setting R&B, club, and pop hits reaching its apex on a series of smash records for Janet Jackson. Born November 21, 1956, in Omaha, NE, he first met Jam (then James Harris III) while attending high school in Minneapolis, and together they formed Flyte Tyme, a popular Twin Cities band that in 1981 evolved into the Time, a group le... Read more