Randy Jackson

Randy Jackson, a Grammy Award-winning producer, is a 20-year music industry veteran. He started out playing bass guitar at age 13, and got his big break when he joined the band Journey. He spent eight years as vice president of A&R at Columbia Records and four years as senior vice president of A&R at MCA Records. Jackson has recorded, toured and performed with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, *NSYNC, Madonna, Elton John and Destiny's Child. He has worked on more than 1000 gold and multi-platinum albums, and his contributions have helped to sell more than 200 million albums worldwide. With his talent, expertise and experience, Jackson is one of today's most highly regarded music industry experts.

This is Randy's 11th Idol cycle - by now he knows 'whats up dawg' and is ready to find America's next superstar.