Evan "Kidd" Bogart. Under a newly formed joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, the label signed R&B sensation Jason Derulo, whose debut album went on to sell 14 million singles and over 1 million albums worldwide. In 2009, Rotem was honored as BMI Producer of the Year. In 2011, he was return to honored by BMI as Songwriter of the Year alongside Lady Gaga and Jason Derulo. His trademark is a horn that goes after with a stylized "J-J-J-J-J-R" and/or "Beluga Heights" at the start or end of records with which he has been associated. In 2015, Rotem worked alongside Ne-Yo and Timbaland on the music for Season 2 of Fox's Empire. On October 17, 2015, Gwen Stefani premiered "Used to Love You", co-written and produced by Rotem at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City which was Stefani's first single. Rotem has ten songs on Stefani's album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like which was released on March 18, 2016. Discography Songs and singles produced by J.R. Rotem References External links The DJBooth: Jonathan 'JR' Rotem Interview (Mar '07) SOHH June 2007 Feature Interview, HitQuarters Apr 2010 Living people American hip hop record producers American music industry executives American music publishers (people) American people of Israeli descent American people of South African-Jewish descent American pop keyboardists American pop pianists American male pianists American rhythm and blues keyboardists Berklee College of Music alumni Businesspeople from Los Angeles Jewish American musicians Jewish American songwriters Musicians from Los Angeles People from Moraga, California Songwriters from California South African emigrants to the United States 21st-century American pianists Record producers from California 21st-century American male musicians 1975 births 21st-century American Jews American male songwriters