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| Birth name | Jack Michael Antonoff |
| Born | March 31, 1984 Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
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Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Bleachers, and previously the guitarist and drummer for the pop band Fun and the lead vocalist of the indie rock band Steel Train. Antonoff has produced and co-written songs with other music acts, known for working with artists such as Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, and Kendrick Lamar.
Antonoff has won eleven Grammy Awards. As part of Fun, he was awarded the Best New Artist and the Song of the Year for "We Are Young" (2011). He gained prominence as a music producer following his works with Swift, leading to three Album of the Year wins from her albums 1989 (2014), Folklore (2020), and Midnights (2022). His other Album of the Year nominations include Lorde's Melodrama (2017), Swift's Lover (2019) and Evermore (2020), and Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) and Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023).
Having won Producer of the Year three consecutive times from 2022 to 2024, Antonoff has been credited by critics with having influenced the popular music trends of the 2010s and 2020s decades.[1][2] Songs he contributed to—from "We Are Young" to Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" (2017), "Cruel Summer" (2019), "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" (2021), "Anti-Hero" (2022), "Is It Over Now?" (2023), and "Fortnight" (2024), and Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please" (2024)—have topped the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart.
He has curated film soundtracks as well, including One Chance (2013), Fifty Shades Darker (2017), Love, Simon (2018), and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022); singles from the first two soundtracks, "Sweeter Than Fiction" by Swift and "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" by Swift and Zayn Malik, respectively, have garnered nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
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- ^ * "Jack Antonoff has redefined pop music. Here's how". BBC News. August 4, 2021. Archived from the original on August 10, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
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- "Indie-pop impresario Jack Antonoff and his band Bleachers wow the crowd at a sold-out Anthem". The Washington Post. September 25, 2021. Archived from the original on December 7, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- "10 Songs You Didn't Know Bleachers' Jack Antonoff Helped Make: From Taylor Swift to Carly Rae Jepsen". Billboard. April 28, 2017. Archived from the original on November 5, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2021.