JIMMY GRECO

Jimmy Greco

 

Born and Raised in New York, Jimmy Greco is a Grammy Nominated Producer, Songwriter, Remixer, Video Producer, Director, and Editor whose credits include Carlos Santana, Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Train, and more. Growing up in New York, Jimmy was exposed to an array of musical genres and styles. From Classic Rock, and Pop to Rap and Dance. With a career of combined credits of over 100 million records sold.

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Jimmy has expanded his credits as a professional Video Producer, Director and Editor and has worked with numerous individuals, artists, bands and commercial businesses like NBC Sports, Cardinal Financial, Douglas Elliman, Universal Music, Sony Music and more.

 

Video and Music was a staple in Jimmy’s  early life where he began to produce and write songs at the age of 10 years old. He helped form a Hip Hop group called “Three Most Wanted” and signed his first Major record deal with Fever / Sutra Records in 1988 at the age of 16. He performed as the groups “DJ” and toured the U.S.A doing numerous shows and live performances. His songwriting and production talents were noticed when he signed to a worldwide co-publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music in (1997 through 2001) where he began a run of chart topping HITS.

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His first # 1 Record was with Jerry Rivera’s song “Quireo”. It stayed on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks at #1 for Six Weeks. It was also nominated for “Premio Lo Nuestro’s Song of the Year” 2001.
He later co-wrote &-produced Frankie Negron’s album “Por tu placer” which was nominated for 2002 Grammy Awards “Best Salsa Album of the Year”.

Soon after, he co-wrote & produced “Si Ya Se Acabo” for Jennifer Lopez on the “J-lo” album. (Over 6 million units sold worldwide) as well as the “J to the LO” Remix album (international – 2 million units sold)

In 2003, He co-wrote and produced Carlos Santana’s song “Come to My World” which appeared as the b-side on the single “Game of Love” featuring Michelle Branch as well as Santana’s worldwide release “Ceremony” remixes and rarities” & “Artist Collection : Santana”

Jimmy co-wrote the song called “Seduceme”, recorded by the artist “India” which stayed at #1 on Billboard’s “Hot Latin Tracks” for 3 straight weeks (March 2003). The album “Latin Song Bird” was the #1 selling salsa album in Billboard for 9 weeks. It is certified Platinum. “Seduce Me Now”, the English version, was released into the American dance market and hit #2 on Billboard’s Club Chart.

In 2003 he received a Grammy Nomination as the composer for “Seduceme” under the “Tropical Song of the Year” category.

In 2004 Jimmy launched Airgo Entertainment (now called Soul Azul Media) and has since sought to embody his vision of the record label and recording artist service company of the future.

2008 Jimmy helped form a remix – production team with DJ Suraci “SMASH MODE”, and has since remixed a variety of today’s top artists including : Paramore, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and more…

2016 brought a new chapter in Jimmy’s story when he wrote and produced NBC’s Thursday Night Football Theme song. (to be aired November 2016)

2019  : Jimmy officially launched Soul Azul Media which provides services such as Artist Development, Music and Video Production, Digital Distribution, Publishing, Marketing and more. 

 

August 11th, 2023 Jimmy embarked on a new venture by releasing informative Videos with the premiere of "How To Make Beats" and "5 Beats in 5 Minutes" along with custom samples for sale available in the jimmygreco.com store.

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Jimmy's goal is to continue creating music to the best of his ability, helping artists and creators elevate their business and spend his life creating content that will bring joy, inspiration, love and healing to everyone his work connects with.

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2024 Jimmy is currently in the studio creating his self-titled album featuring some of today’s talented vocalists. “This is a project I’ve wanted to do for many years, it will give me the opportunity to have a free creative landscape to showcase and honor some of the best artists I’ve had the great opportunity to collaborate with. Its songs range in style and genre and all stem from the great influences like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, James Brown to Early Hip Hop with Modern Electronic mix. It's the project I would enjoy listening to on my down time.” Songwriting and production is still on the way for this release that will officially be announced late 2024.  

 

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