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We don’t leave that Florida recording session with our first single. It feels like we have decent stuff but in many ways we’re nowhere… well actually in this tiny studio, in Tampa, with me, Jennifer, and a yappy Pomeranian who she had the bold confidence to name Grammy. Though I’ll never admit it, it feels like this is a languishing process with no foreseeable end in sight. Yet we still don’t have a first single to unlock her debut album’s potential. We’ve spent time in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and a few other cities trying to decode this creative Rubik’s cube. Jennifer and I have travelled to London to record with Timbaland. Between her insane talent, the momentum around “Dreamgirls”, and my relationships with the creative community, it feels like this should crystallize quickly.īut between that initial optimism and this moment in Tampa, it’s almost been a year and a half of toil and sporadic fruitfulness. She’s got a remarkably unique vocal prowess and power, so the potential for a hit album is easy to visualize for me. So when I started working with Jennifer, I think, okay, no problem. I’ve forged trusting relationships with the best songwriters in the business as well. In my career, I’ve had the great fortune to work with so many incredible artists, ranging from Whitney Houston to Chicago rapper Chief Keef to the national treasure Aretha Franklin, and so many more. Jennifer’s recording contract had been signed not long after she captured the country’s heart as a standout contestant on “American Idol”, and right before she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the blockbuster movie, “Dreamgirls”. The stakes are high and the pressure is palpable. I signed Jennifer Hudson earlier that year. The studio starts to feel even smaller and shabbier than it is. And I laugh uncontrollably at what’s being implied. Very matter of factly, she says: “Well, I won an Oscar already, and now we’re about to win a Grammy, ain’t we?!” I ask her with a clueless naiveté why she’s chosen those two particular names, Oscar and Grammy. The pun and deliberacy have gone completely over my head. Jennifer introduces me to her second dog, which she’s named… Grammy. But the other one, who I don’t recognize at all, is new. An hour and a half later, in walks Jennifer Hudson – and she’s not alone. But our location today is pretty nondescript from the outside – and frankly isn’t much better when you get inside its control room.
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I’ve spent a large part of my professional life in state-of-the-art recording studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Johannesburg, Paris. She’s coming in to record a new song for her upcoming album. I await the arrival of a vocal powerhouse. JACKSON: I’m sitting in a cramped, hole-in-the-wall recording studio in Tampa. Letting whatever thoughts and feelings are around be around, letting them be here. I hope these prompts will be helpful to you.Īnd let’s take a moment now to settle in before we hear from Larry. From time to time, we’ll pause the story ever so briefly for me to come in with guidance to enhance your experience as you listen. I’m Rohan, and I’ll be your guide on this episode of Meditative Story. In this series, we blend immersive, first-person stories with mindfulness prompts to help you restore yourself at any time of the day. From his start in the music industry at the age of 11 to his current role as Global Creative Director at Apple Music, there aren’t many people who know more about how great music is made than Larry. ROHAN GUNATILLAKE: Behind every great artist there are all sorts of people whose own dedication and creativity enable the stars to be the stars. Discovering and unearthing – and again, manifesting. I’m literally in the business of manifesting, I suppose. The job is entirely predicated upon finding things that aren’t yet in their fully realized form and bringing them into existence. LARRY JACKSON: It’s funny, because my job as a music producer, an A&R executive, is to go out and find the best material – songs, songwriters, producers – and the best up-and-coming artists, and bring them together, and then will them into success.