Yonatan "Johnny" Goldstein (

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: יונתן "ג'וני" גולדשטיין; born January 29, 1991) is an Israeli multi-platinum record producer and songwriter specializing in pop, hip hop, dance and electronic music. Goldstein has collaborated with artists including

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and more. Additionally, Goldstein has contributed original compositions featured in global commercial campaigns for Mercedes,

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, LG,

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, Citroen,

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and

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. He is signed to

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& Artist Publishing Group to a worldwide co-publishing deal.

Career

Goldstein, born in Israel to Yosef and Ora Goldstein, was interested in music from a very young age. He began playing drums at age nine and started writing and singing at 11. He was a member of a rock band in high school. Using the nickname "Little Johnny" (ג'וני הקטן, ''Johnny haKatan'' in Hebrew), he recorded a song with the band

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. After sending a six-song demo to David Klemes (keyboard player for Hadag Nahash), they decided to work on one of the demos as the basis for an album by Goldstein. The project, to be called "My Neighborhood (השכונה שלי, ''haSkhuna Sheli''), never materialized. In addition to the album project and his school load, Goldstein worked with an assortment of artists and musicians, including

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, Dana Adini,

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and Corinne Allal. In 2008, he released his debut album, ''The Johnny Show'', through

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. It featured 14 tracks and a number of collaborators, including Muki,

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, Shlomi Shaban,

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, Sha'anan Street, Cohen@Mushon and

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After graduating from Thelma Yellin High School of Arts, Goldstein collaborated with Israeli pop star

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to form the vocalist duo TYP, also known as The Young Professionals. Their debut album, '' 09:00 to 17:00, 17:00 to Whenever'', was released in Israel in 2011 and was greeted with critical and commercial success. TYP was named "Best Israeli Act" at the 2011

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. Soon after, the group signed with

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for international distribution, and also signed with events promoter

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. In 2015, Goldstein was selected to be the musical director and music producer for the reboot of the globally successful musical ''

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''. The production received rave reviews and went on to become the most viewed play of the year, with more than 250 showings. Goldstein then went on to serve as lead music producer and guest judge on

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for both the first and second seasons. He was also a judge on the successful teen oriented show, Band Project. In 2016, as part of TYP, Goldstein released their final collaboration album together, Remixes and Covers, which includes official remixes for

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and

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. In 2019, Goldstein began working alongside rapper and record producer

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on the

' eighth studio album ''TRANSLATION'', with features including:

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& J Rey Soul.producing a total of twelve of fifteen tracks which made its debut at #3 on top ''Billboard'''s Latin Albums Chart. Goldstein's first global hit record was his co-production on the

' lead single MAMACITA featuring

and J Rey Soul, which samples

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Discography

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References

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