Janko Nilovic

Montenegrin-French composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardist, percussionist, vocalist and producer, born on May 20th, 1941 in İstanbul, Turkey. French resident since 1960. He has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from classical, jazz, and funk to pop, psyche, and easy listening.

In 2010 Nilovic won a Grammy award for the rap song D.O.A.(Death Of Auto-Tune along with Shawn Carter, Ernest Wilson, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka and Dave Sucky. Producer No I.D. had sampled Nilović's song In The Space for that track on Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 album Other artists who have sampled Nilovic's work include The Beatnuts and Joey Badass. The hip-hop producer Dr. Dre sampled much of Nilović's piece Underground Session for his track Loose Cannons on the Compton album.