{"id":833,"date":"2016-11-01T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=833"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:10:34","slug":"jimmy-jam-terry-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/jimmy-jam-terry-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Jimmy Jam (1959- ) & Terry Lewis (1956- )<\/p>\n

Inducted 2016<\/p>\n

James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis, songwriters, musicians, and record producers, met while attending high school in Minneapolis. However, they did not meet in class, but while attending a TRIO Upward Bound program on The University of Minnesota Campus. Jimmy Jam plays keyboards, piano, synthesizers, and drum machine. Terry Lewis plays guitar and percussion. In the mid-1970s Jimmy & Terry formed a band called Flyte Tyme which evolved into 1980s international funk favorites The Time. Along with Prince, Jimmy & Terry created “The Minneapolis Sound”, a modernized take on rhythm & blues- funk- soul- black music using synthesizers replacing traditional horns and their arrangements. This sound was the blueprint for all worldwide popular music in the 1980s. The duo formed a recording studio and production company in South Minneapolis entitled Flyte Tyme in the mid-’80s named after their old band. It has been estimated that Flyte Tyme’s recordings have sold over 200 million records worldwide. Around this time Jimmy & Terry also formed Perspective Records, funded and distributed by major label A&M Records. The duo have worked with Prince, Sounds of Blackness, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Human League, SOS Band, Usher and many more. The sound that Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis created in the 1980s could still be heard by 2010s hitmaker Bruno Mars’ hit “Uptown Funk”, which was a direct homage to “The Minneapolis Sound”. So far-reaching is the imprint of their work, a “revival” of Jimmy & Terry’s sound is taking place in the nightclubs of New Orleans during the 2020s.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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