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| Born | Jack Michael Antonoff March 31, 1984 Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop rock band Fun and the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Steel Train. Antonoff has produced and co-written songs with other music acts such as Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, Pink, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter and Doja Cat.
Antonoff has won eleven Grammy Awards. As part of Fun, he was awarded the Best New Artist and the Song of the Year for "We Are Young" (2011). He gained prominence as a music producer following his works with Swift, leading to three Album of the Year wins from her albums 1989 (2014), Folklore (2020), and Midnights (2022). His other Album of the Year nominations include Lorde's Melodrama (2017), Swift's Evermore (2020) and The Tortured Poets Department (2024); Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023); and Carpenter's Short n' Sweet (2024).
Having won Producer of the Year three consecutive times from 2022 to 2024, Antonoff has been credited by critics with having influenced the popular music trends of the 2010s and 2020s decades.[1][2] Songs he contributed to—from "We Are Young" to Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" (2017), "Cruel Summer" (2019), "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" (2021), "Anti-Hero" (2022), "Is It Over Now?" (2023), and "Fortnight" (2024), Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please" (2024), and Kendrick Lamar's "Squabble Up" and "Luther" (both 2024)—have topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
He has curated film soundtracks as well, including One Chance (2013), Fifty Shades Darker (2017), Love, Simon (2018), and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022); singles from the first two soundtracks, "Sweeter Than Fiction" by Swift and "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Swift and Zayn Malik, have garnered nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
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- ^ * "Jack Antonoff has redefined pop music. Here's how". BBC News. August 4, 2021. Archived from the original on August 10, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- Horn, Olivia (July 22, 2021). "Jack Antonoff Doesn't Want to Just Take up Space". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
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- "Indie-pop impresario Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers wow the crowd at a sold-out Anthem". The Washington Post. September 25, 2021. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- "10 Songs You Didn't Know Bleachers' Jack Antonoff Helped Make: From Taylor Swift to Carly Rae Jepsen". Billboard. April 28, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2021.