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    The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir

    By Timbaland and Veronica Chambers

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    The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy Back, the legendary producer in the pantheon of music greats as influential and groundbreaking as Motown’s Berry Gordy and a memoir of the creative process.

    Hailed by the New Yorker as “the eminence grise behind half of what is great in the Top Forty these days,” world-renowned producer Timbaland has been a fixture on the pop charts, with more top-ten hits than Elvis or the Beatles. An artist whose fans are multi-racial and multi-generational, Timbaland works with the hottest artists, from Mariah Carey and Missy Elliott to Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Madonna, and his childhood friend, Pharrell Williams. Yet this celebrity is a uniquely private man who shuns parties, stays out of gossip columns, and rarely gives interviews. Deliberately choosing to tour by bus and conspicuously bling-free, he maintains a low-key lifestyle. If he’s not at the recording studio, he is at home with his family.

    In The Emperor of Sound, Timbaland offers fans an unprecedented look into his life and work. Completely uncensored and totally honest, he reveals the magic behind the music, sharing the various creative impulses that arise while he’s producing, and the layering of sounds that have created dozens of number one hits. Cinematically written, full of revealing anecdotes and reflections from today’s most popular music icons, The Emperor of Sound showcases this master’s artistry and offers an extraordinary glimpse inside this great musical mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9780062406743
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    Timbaland

    Timbaland, born Timothy Z. Mosley, has played many creative roles throughout his celebrated career. He was a member of DeVante Swing’s Da Bassment crew and is one half of the hip-hop duo Timbaland & Magoo. Considered one of the most successful producers in music history, he is the executive music producer of Fox’s runaway-hit television show Empire. The CEO of his own label, Mosley Music Group, Timbaland lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife and children.

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      Marisol and Magdalena are two best friends. They are both first generation Panama-Americans. The two friends are separated when Marisol has to go to Panama for a year. In Panama, she gets in touch with her culture and tries to find her father. I really enjoyed this novel, and I feel a lot of Latinas can identify with it. I speak in Spanglish all the time with my family, and I was also teased about my Spanish accent. I wish I would have read novels like this when I was an early teen. I am not sure on how to use this as a lesson. If I was teaching at an all girls school, I might have my students explore the culture and customs in Panama or other Central American countries. My family is from Honduras, and I found some customs or even sayings (like "Las cosas se hacen bien, o no se hacen") very similar.