Iovine was also responsible for providing distribution, initial funding and financial oversight for the highly successful Death Row Records hip-hop label in the 1990s. Iovine signed Tupac Shakur to a recording contract as one of the first hip-hop acts on the Interscope label in 1991. In 1990, Iovine co-founded Interscope Records, which became Interscope Geffen A&M after a merger in 1999.
Iovine was also responsible for supervising the music used in the 1984 romance film Sixteen Candles and the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Iovine served as sound engineer for the Voyager Golden Records, a pair of phonograph records which were launched aboard the Voyager space probes in 1977. Iovine also produced Bella Donna (the first solo album for Stevie Nicks), Making Movies for Dire Straits, and Get Close for The Pretenders. He teamed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the Torpedoes and U2 on Rattle and Hum. He came to prominence via his work on the 1978 Patti Smith album Easter, which included her Top 40 hit " Because the Night". By 1973, Iovine was on staff at the New York studio the Record Plant, where he worked on Springsteen's Born to Run and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell albums. In the early 1970s, Iovine became a recording engineer, working with John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, among others. Career Music and film engineering and production career Since the start of his career, Iovine has been involved in the production of more than 250 albums. He was introduced to music production after he met a songwriter who got him a job cleaning a recording studio, and he soon began working as an engineer. Iovine attended Catholic school in Brooklyn, graduating from the since-closed Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School and went on to attend New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His father's death and his love for Christmas inspired Jimmy to record A Very Special Christmas in 1985. His mother was a secretary and his father, Vincent "Jimmy" Iovine, worked on the docks as a longshoreman. James Iovine was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Italian working-class family. 2.1 Music and film engineering and production career.
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