Jam & Lewis

Meeting in the ’70s Minneapolis music scene that produced Prince, songwriting and production duo Jam & Lewis have crafted classics for Janet Jackson, Human League, George Michael, Usher, Mary J. Blige and more. In their lecture at the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy,the pair revealed some of the secrets behind making hit records and staying relevant.

Interview by Jeff “Chairman” Mao
Produced and engineered by Frank Westerkamp and Denis Hürter

Om Podcasten

Couch Wisdom is a weekly podcast presenting the best of Red Bull Music Academy’s lecture archive. Questlove has called these in-depth interviews ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ for music, and who are we to disagree with Questlove? With personal stories and creative insights from Björk to The Black Madonna, Young Thug engineer Alex Tumay to Moodymann, there’s something for every music fan. Red Bull Music Academy is a world-traveling series of festivals and workshops est. in 1998.