Terry Lewis Biography, Net Worth, Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Family, Fact, and More

The American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team includes Terry Steven Lewis, a musician, composer, record producer, actor, and singer. Jimmy Jam and Terry Steven Lewis were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 under the category of Musical Excellence.

Terry Lewis Biography And Net Worth

Terry Lewis’s Personal Life

Lewis, who was born on November 24, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska, immigrated to the city in the early 1960s. Jam first met Lewis when they were both in high school. However, they met while participating in an Upward Bound program for urban students on the University of Minnesota campus, not in a classroom. While Jam was earning his reputation spinning records for dancers at Minneapolis clubs, Lewis was pursuing a high school athletic career that earned him a football scholarship to Notre Dame University.

Terry Lewis Career Beginnings

Lewis was forced to abandon college when a knee injury during his final year of high school limited his athletic possibilities, forcing him to seriously contemplate a future in music. Lewis founded and played bass in the Flyte Tyme band, which shared the funk spotlight with Prince, another Minneapolis native and rising star, in the middle of the 1970s. When Lewis asked Jam to play keyboards for his band in the late 1970s, their musical relationship really took off. They started frequently creating songs together in early 1981.

Terry Lewis Success

Jam and Lewis wrote songs for other performers and occasionally produced the tracks, as producers and songwriters, Jam and Lewis honed their skills and grew their company. Jam and Lewis produced a streak of successes after leaving The Time in 1983, including a smash with Cherrelle’s “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On.” They wrote 31 top 10 singles in the UK and 41 in the US before being admitted into The Soul Music Hall of Fame at SoulMusic.com in 2012. In 2005, the couple founded the Flyte Tyme West studio in Santa Monica, California.

The Yolanda Adams song “Be Blessed” earned them a Grammy. They worked on the two Grammy Award-winning Chaka Khan albums Funk This. More than any other songwriter and production duo in history, they have the most Billboard #1s. The pair received nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for their work on the movie Poetic Justice.

Terry Lewis Wife

In 1992, Terry Lewis wed R&B singer Karyn White, with whom he had a daughter, Ashley Nicole Lewis but the couple later got divorced. Later, he wed Indira Singh, with whom he had two children.

Terry Lewis’s Net Worth

Terry Lewis has an estimated net worth of $50 million as of 2022. Lewis has been dependent on music as his primary source of income for more than 30 years. He has also engaged in other big business dealings, such as the 2013 sale of his Malibu oceanfront home for $3.735 million.

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