Charlie Amter Most pop producers pine for a proverbial “big break,” and for Yonatan Goldstein, who goes by Johnny Goldstein, they don’t get much larger than co-production credit on 12 out of 15 tracks from the Black Eyed Peas’ buzzing “Translation” album including breakout hit “Mamacita” featuring Ozuna and J.
Rey Soul. The Epic Records release boasts a hybridized, futuristic sound that leans heavily on Latin music production trends, yet is still unmistakably a Black Eyed Peas project.
That sound comes not via Miami, Bogota or San Juan, but circuitously via Paris, and Tel Aviv, where Goldstein, Variety’s Hitmaker of the Month, has toiled away for years as both an artist, and now exclusively as a behind-the-scenes songsmith, who is now.
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