Scott
Storch
Scott Storch (born 1973) is an American record producer. He produces a variety
of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company (formerly Storchaveli Recordings) responsible
for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox. He also has his own music production
company called Tuff Jew Productions LLC which is published by Reservoir
Media Management.
Scott Storch was born in Long Island, New York.
His mother, Joyce Yolanda Storch, was a singer signed to Philadelphia's
Cameo-Parkway Records under the stage name Joyce Carol, and is
of Lithuanian Jewish heritage. His father, Phil Storch, was a court
reporter. His uncle, Jeremy Storch, was a founder of soul-rock
band The Vagrants and wrote songs recorded by Dave Mason and Eddie
Money Storch's parents divorced in 1983. Storch attended elementary
school in Sunrise and middle school in Davie, Florida. In the middle
of his freshman year, he left South Florida to join his father
in the Philadelphia area, and attended high school in Bensalem,
Pennsylvania. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade,
Storch was expelled from home at the age of 16. He made his first
big step in his professional music career in 1991 when he became
one of the first members of the hip hop group The Roots as a keyboard player. Storch's first big commercial
hit was when he collaborated with Dr. Dre and helped produce the
riffs for the song Still D.R.E.. Storch's most successful commercial
hit was Lean Back, a 2004 single by Fat Joe.
