Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981), occasionally known by his initials JT, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.
Raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.
Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused Justified (2002), which yielded the successful singles "Cry Me a River" and "Rock Your Body", and earned his first two Grammy Awards.
SZA, Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year, Unpacks ‘SOS,’ Her 9 Grammy Noms, and Says ‘F— You’ to Song Leakers
variety.comSZA is vigorously scrolling. “I never have topics before I start a song,” she says about her creative process, late one August night, high in the hills of Malibu, while zipping through months of memos and voice notes on her phone. “I just let the beat tell me what to do, and then I start babbling and making words, and it starts to form itself.
It’s like a puzzle. Sometimes I write down phrases, but I never go back to those — even though they’re always good-ass phrases!” Her forefinger flies across her phone. “They go back years and years and years.
It’s all music and random bounces and writing… “Oh, shit!” she exclaims, suddenly pointing to the screen. “It’s ‘Kill Bill’!” — her song that just happens to be the No.
2 charting single of the year. “This is literally ‘Kill Bill,’ the day that I wrote it: July 13, 2022 … at 10:26 p.m.!” To a degree rare even for a musician, SZA’s art is inseparable from the rest of her.
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