Josh Stevens

Josh Stevens
Josh Stevens on the red carpet at Fashion One Show in Hollywood Ca 2015
Background information
Birth name	Joshua Steven Gill
Born	Fountain Valley, California
Origin	Los Angeles
Genres	hip hop dance pop indie-rock
Occupation(s)	record producer, songwriter, singer, engineer, musician, A&R, CEO
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Stadium Music Enterprise, Interscope Records, Island Def Jam Records, Universal Music Group, Epic Records
Associated acts	LMFAO, Pitbull, Capital Cities, Warren G, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Thurzday, Goonrock, Jennifer Lopez, Naima Mora, Rihanna, Beenie Man, Wilmer Valderrama, Lil Jon, Nitzan Kaikov (K-Kov), Young Jeezy, Steve Aoki, Nate Dogg, Lisa D'Amato, Shwayze
Website	iamjoshstevens.com

Josh Stevens (born November 21, 1983) is an American singer, record producer, songwriter and engineer. Raised in Los Angeles. His works are Grammy Award Winning, RIAA Platinum Certified, Billboard Award Nominated, Juno Award Nominated (Canada) and ARIA Music Awards Platinum Certified (Australia). His early career was based around hip-hop working for the likes of Warren G, Snoop Dogg, The Game and Clyde Carson. He however found his modern sound in pop/indie-rock/dance.

Josh's early years consisted of writing and free style rapping in his first hiphop group called Mental Advisory where he went by the stage name Speratic. With his two brothers, Jason Whittaker (older) aka Blaximus and Jay Daniels (younger) aka M.A.R.S., Josh did mainly vocals at the time as Jason Whittaker did most of the production and music. One of Mental Advisory's biggest achievements was becoming the entrance music for comedian Mark Curry (actor) live set. After the band members went on to do other ventures, Jason Whittaker became a well established comedian who now goes by Jay Whittaker. Jay Daniels became Dj Jason Craig. The members still work and make music with each other to this day.

In 2004 Josh attended the Los Angeles Recording School (now Full Sail and Los Angeles Film School) where he received a certificate of engineering. At this point he became an intern under Grammy Winning Record Producer and Mix Engineer Tom Weir at Studio City Sound. This is where he meet long time record executive, co-collaborator and current manager Byron Martinez. As of today Josh still calls Studio City Sound in Studio City , Ca his main studio. At about the same time he also became an intern for Grammy Winning Record Producer Niko Bolas. After spending about two years as an intern/assistant he found a live sound Mix Engineer position at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. He spent just under 2 years there as a head Tech Director. He still works for Saddleback Church as a freelance mixer today. Wanting to get back into more studio work he was asked to be a personal engineer for Warren G. Warren G was instrumental in Josh working with LMFAO and they maintain a strong working relationship to the present day.