James David Washington (born August 26, 1980 ), known professionally as Jim BEANZ, is an American vocal producer, songwriter, singer and record producer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is signed to Timbaland Productions and Sunset Entertainment Group.

Biography

Beanz began his career when he was an artist in the R&B group "Tresan", during which time he received mentorship from Dru Hill. In 2005, he started working alongside Timbaland as a vocal producer. He co-wrote the winning entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, "Believe" by Dima Bilan. Beanz also wrote and produced songs on the first season of the FOX series Empire and portrayed the rapper "Titan."

Credits

2004

Hair Show Soundtrack

2005

El Feco

Apache Indian – Time For Change

Shakira – Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Jamie Foxx – Unpredictable

2006

Kulcha Don – It's All About You

Nelly Furtado – Loose

Danity Kane – Danity Kane

Fergie – The Dutchess

Diddy – Press Play

Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape

Fantasia – Fantasia

2007

Katharine McPhee – Katharine McPhee

Timbaland – Timbaland Presents Shock Value

Lady Ru – My Addiction

All Produced by Jim Beanz

Mutya Buena Real Girl

M.I.A. – K A L A

Britney Spears – Blackout

Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre

Test Drive

2008

Keri Hilson

Danity Kane – Welcome to the Dollhouse

Credits on the first run of this album are wrong, Jim Beanz was the vocal producer on 90% of Danity Kane album. As seen in Making the Band 4, Season 2.

Matt Pokora – MP3

Day26 – Day26

Ashlee Simpson – Bittersweet World

Ashanti – The Declaration

Taio Cruz – She's Like A Star Single

Donnie Klang – Just a Rolling Stone

Jennifer Hudson – Jennifer Hudson

Craig David – Greatest Hits

Lemar – The Reason

Britney Spears – Circus

Jamie Foxx – Intuition

Jada

2009

Chris Cornell – Scream (Mosley/Interscope/Universal)

Keri Hilson – In A Perfect World... (Zone 4-Mosley Interscope/Universal)

Dzham

Ciara – Fantasy Ride (Jive/RCA Records/LaFace, Sony Music, Zomba)

Charlie Hustle

Dima Bilan – Believe

Esmée Denters – Outta Here (Tennman/Interscope/Universal)

Luigi Masi – Save His Shoes

Ginuwine – A Man's Thoughts

Lemar

Whitney Houston – I Look To You

Shakira – She Wolf

Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment

Leseya Lee – The Phoenix

Timbaland – Shock Value II

JC Chasez – Kate

Samantha Jade

2010

Amar – Show It Off

Gunjan – Goonj: Echoes From Gunjan

Lemar

Rebel

JoJo – Can't Take That Away from Me

Tina

Rihanna – Loud

Chase Landon

Keyshia Cole – Calling All Hearts

2011

Raghav – The Phoenix

Chris Brown – F.A.M.E.

Dima Bilan – Dreamer

Luigi Masi – Pick Up Line

Demi Lovato- Unbroken

Patricia Kazadi

Joe Jonas – Fastlife

Real Steel Soundtrack

Day26 – A New Day

2012

Cheryl Cole – A Million Lights

JoJo – Jumping Trains

Lyrica Anderson – King Me Mixtape

2013

Darin – Exit

AGNEZ MO

2015

Lil' Kim

Deborah Cox

Lemar

2019

Jane Zhang – Past Progressive

2024

Nelly Furtado – 7