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Randy Jackson
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Executive Producer, Actor, Musical Direction/Supervision Born: June 23, 1956 in Baton Rouge, LA Biography:Though best known to many for his most public role -- as the mellowest and most even-tempered of the three resident judges on the Fox network's reality series American Idol -- Randy Jackson carried even greater professional weight for years as a songwriter and a session musician in the recording industry. In those combined capacities, Jackson chalked up a massive number of album credits -- in excess of 1,100, according to one source -- and worked with everyone from Michael Bolton to Aretha Franklin. A Baton Rouge, LA, native, Jackson grew up as the son of an Exxon plant foreman father and a homemaker mother. He graduated from Southern University in 1979 with a degree in music, then spent the following decade playing backup on bass for various artists; by the early '90s, however, Jackson had reportedly grown listless and opted to focus all of his energies on songwriting and producing albums for artists... Full Biography
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