Timothy Z Mosely who is better known in the music world as Timbaland is a famous American producer, singer and a rapper. He ventured in the music industry in the 90s' and worked as a protege of Devante from Jodeci. His production style is marked by an individualistic uniqueness, unorthodox music arrangements and his instrumentation has a sense of space and rhythm. Timbaland is such a producer who has spread his musical influence on every genre of music and made a successful career as a pop music producer mainly. Timbaland is also a very good performer and has solo and duets to his credit. He also gave vocals to many of the songs sung by him as well as other contemporary singers.
Timbaland worked in collaboration with many of the famous singers and producers like Magoo, Petey Pablo, Beck, Jay-z etc. During the period around 2001, Timbaland produced three tracks for Tweet's debut collection, Southern Hummingbird and produced tracks for singers like Lil Kim and Southern rapper, Pastor Troy. In collaboration with producer Scott Storch, he worked on the production of a number of tracks by the former NSYNC singer Justin Timberlake. This smash album was entitled, "Justified". Another of the massive hits of the album includes "Cry Me a River". This song, however, helped Timberlake to establish himself as a mature singer and helped him to wipe out his teeny bopper image. Timbaland's talents to do rap and his appearance in the music video of "Cry Me A River" made him hugely famous. However, after the release of this album, Timbaland broke up with Scott over some financial problems. In the year, Timbaland produced album "Future, sex, love, sounds" was nominated got the Grammy awards in the "album of the year" category.
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