Timothy Zachery Mosley, or Timbaland, born in 1972, is a recording manufacturer, DJ, songwriter, singer, and rapper from Virginia. His career began to return in the 1990s when he formed a rap, timbaland and mago duo, with his childhood friend Melvin Barcliff Magoo.
He is famous in the music industry, especially for both songs “crying me the river” and “Give me”.
In January 2019, the net worth was around $ 85 million.
The Beginnings
Timbaland was born in March tenth, 1972, in Norfolk, Virginia as Timothy Zachery Mosley. He has two siblings of a younger sister, and the younger brother who is also a rapper named Sebastian. His mother had his own protection for homeless people, and his father worked with Amtrak. He began working when he was fifteen years old at the local “Red Lobster” restaurant. Immediately, he began to get interest to work in local clubs as a DJ. The stage name is the DJ Timmy Team or Simler DJ team.
The Career
Missy Elliott introduced Mosley and Magoo to the famous Devante, who named it in Timbaland. He began working with Devante on various projects. One particular song he worked on “pony”, was a kind of trendsetter when it came to music in the 1990s.
TimbaLand and Magoo’s debut album “Welcome to our world” from 1997, was a great success. Then that year, Timbaland produced an album “Da Real World” Missy Elliott, who became another success. In 2000, Mosley continued the production of many hit songs. One of the most popular is “launch” by Ludacris.
In 2001, Timbaland and Magoo released another album called “indecent proposal”. 2009 was the year when he released another solo album “Shock II Value”. This album is very popular in the United States and England.
The next few years were very successful. 2010 was the year of collaboration with Chris Brown. He produced a whole “f.a.m.e.” The album, which displays a few hit songs like “Talk Ya Ear Off” and “paper, Scissors, Rock”. They sold more than 250K copies during the first week and this album regarding the top of the graph.
Discography
- Tim`s Bio: Life from da Bassment – Released in 1998.
- Shock Value – Released in 2007.
- Shock Value II – Released in 2009.
The Highlight of Timbaland`s Career
- Song “Carry Out” – Released in 2009.
- Song “Cry me a River” – Released in 2002.
- Song ”Give it to me” – Released in 2007.
- Album “Exit Wounds” – Released in 2001.
- Album “Shock Value” – Released in 2007.
- Award “BET Hip-Hop” Best Produced – Awarded in 2007.