Rodney Jerkins

Prolific producer Rodney Jerkins’ credits include hits by Mary J. Blige, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Monica, Joe, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Jennifer Lopez’s number 1 single “IN THE EVENT THAT YOU Had My Like,” Tatyana Ali, Britney Spears, Will Smith, Toni Braxton, and Blackstreet, among numerous others. What’s a lot more amazing is definitely that Jerkins amassed this enviable resumé in only a couple of years. Given birth to the youngest child of the minister and choir movie director mother in a little town in NJ, Jerkins began acquiring traditional music lessons within the piano as a little child and merging that using the gospel music that he noticed in cathedral. As he grew, he added R&B and jazz to his repertoire. He proved helpful obsessively on music, documenting rap demos for regional talent. By his teenagers, he wished to turn into a record manufacturer and began producing demos, among which caught the interest of Teddy Riley. His initial professional composing and producing work emerged in 1994 for an musician named Casserine, with 15, he composed and created his very own gospel rap record, On the road, with his sibling Fred Jerkins III. In 1997, Jerkins co-wrote, organized, and created five music for Mary J. Blige’s four million-selling Talk about My World record, including the strike single “I COULD Like You.” He was called among the most popular R&B companies in the united states, and during 1999, he began his very own label, Darkchild Information. The initial two artists to become signed were Therefore Plush and Rhona Bennet.