
Terry Lewis
Department: Acting
Biography
Terry Lewis is a musician, songwriter, singer, music arranger, film score composer, actor, record producer, and composer. Lewis has a decades-old partnership with James "Jimmy Jam" Harris III, having both first found success in the Prince-formed-and-directed band The Time (originally Flyte Time) before going out on their own as producers for some of the biggest pop and R&B acts of the 80s and 90s, perhaps most notably Janet Jackson.
Known For

Motown 40: The Music is Forever
1998

Herb Alpert Is...
2020

Thriller 40
2023

Begin Again
2014

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022

It's Black Entertainment
2002

MTV Icon: Janet Jackson
2001

Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince
2020

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025

The Minneapolis Sound
2019

Tamron Hall
2019

Half & Half
2002

Legends
2006

Fresh Off the Boat
2015

James Brown: Say It Loud
2024

JANET JACKSON.
2022

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003