Janko Nilovic

Greek-Montenegrin composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardist, percussionist, vocalist and producer, born on May 20th, 1941 in İstanbul, Turkey. French resident since 1960. He has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz, and funk to pop, psyche, and easy listening. Also co-founder of Ju Ju Records. In 2010 Nilovic won a Grammy award for the rap song 'D.O.A.(Death Of Auto-Tune)" along with Shawn Carter, Ernest Wilson, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka and Dave Sucky. Producer No I.D. had sampled Nilović's song 'In The Space' for that track on Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 album Other artists who have sampled Nilovic's work include The Beatnuts and Joey Bada$. The hip-hop producer Dr. Dre sampled much of Nilović's piece 'Underground Session' for his track 'Loose Cannons' on the Compton (A Soundtrack By Dr. Dre) album.