Joseph s. Derivé (born February 10, 1988) Better known as Phines West is an American hip hop producer and fashion designer based in New York from Bridgetown, Barbados. Phines is best known productions include Wildest Moments by Jessie Ware, ' by Kanye west. and Tonight I'm Getting Over You by Carly Rae Jepsen just to name a few. Career Phines career began in the 2006 Saint Michael, Barbados Producing records for upcoming artist and working on mixtape for local artist, Richie Spice, Gyptian, King Tubby Rootz Underground, kon juggn, Rude diggs. in 2009 Phinés and his family move to coon rapids, Minnesota after his parent bought a church in a small town of coon rapid were Phines learn how to play different instruments such as the drums, piano and Oboes. At the age of 17 Phines moved to Los Angeles were he went to school at American Musical and Dramatic Academy also know AMDA were Phines study acting, Fashion and music. After graduating AMDA Phines went back to producing music, shortly after he help co-produced Talk That Talk by rihanna .with other well know producer garnering worldwide success, reaching number one in over twenty countries worldwide. The album became Rihanna seventh U.S. album making rihanna the fifth-most number ones in the chart's history. Despite reaching number two, the album became the biggest-selling album of 2011 in the UK and he contained to co-write on few of Rihanna singles to sell over a million copies in the country. With sales of over nine million to date, it is one of the bestselling albums worldwide and Rihanna biggest selling album worldwide. Years Laterr Phines produced few more records for others major artist like "" which was produced by Lifted and co-produced by Phines West , Mike WiLL Made It, Kanye West, Hudson Mohawke Ft Artist like Big Sean, 2 Chainz, & Pusha T that lead him 2 Grammy Nominations in April 3, 2012 and producing Wildest Moments for U.k singer Jessie Ware with Kid Harpoon, Dave Okumu.
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