Editing Dallas Austin (section)

=== Career ===
Austin got his start in the music industry when his manager William "Vybe Chyle" Burke introduced him to his business partner, [[Klymaxx]] member [[Joyce Irby]].<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy">{{cite web|url=http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/09/highland-place-mobsters-feature|title=Make It Funky: The Rise & Fall of the Highland Place Mobsters|website=redbullmusicacademy.com|publisher=Red Bull Music Academy|access-date=2015-08-27|archive-date=July 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706032410/http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/09/highland-place-mobsters-feature|url-status=live}}</ref> Joyce was the "way out" Dallas had been looking for. She enlisted as an exclusive producer for her company Diva One Productions.<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy" /> Though Joyce believed in Dallas' ability, the record labels didn't see it the same way. Irby and Burke went from label to label shopping Austin's work but they just couldn't hear it. Joyce was determined that the world would hear Dallas Austin. In 1989, she scored a solo deal with Motown Records and had 3 charted Billboard singles, most notable "Mr. DJ" with Doug E. Fresh which was co-produced by Dallas peaking at #2. Finally there was a real breakthrough. Austin went on to produce the songs "My Music" and "[[I Will Always Love You (Troop song)|I Will Always Love You]]" for [[Troop (band)|Troop]]'s 1989 album ''[[Attitude (Troop album)|Attitude]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://waxpoetics.com/features/articles/producer-dallas-austin-talks-about-boyz-ii-mens-debut-album-cooleyhighharmony/|title=Producer Dallas Austin talks about Boyz II Men's debut album, 'Cooleyhighharmony'|website=Wax Poetics|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-09|archive-date=July 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729210419/http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/producer-dallas-austin-talks-about-boyz-ii-mens-debut-album-cooleyhighharmony/|url-status=dead}}</ref> When he was starting out as a producer, he would frequent a local skating rink and records that he produced would be played over the sound system; [[Tionne Watkins|T-Boz]], his future collaborator of [[TLC (group)|TLC]] fame, was also a frequent patron.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|title=Dallas Austin on Producing Michael Jackson, TLC, Boyz II Men, Monica, Pink (Full Interview)| date=September 11, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDUoQmmB0KU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/cDUoQmmB0KU| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-11-03}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He used to take his keyboard to school with him, but his mother expressed annoyance at this, telling his school guidance counselor that she did not feel his production career would work out, but the counselor told her that because Austin had kept at his hobby for so long (it was his eleventh grade year), then perhaps it would indeed work out, and suggested that Austin's mother back him. His mother, upon hearing this from a third party, agreed to support Austin. Austin, who was nearly finished with his compulsory education, expressed his wish to cease going to school. His mother, though not pleased with this, allowed him to do so. He spent a large amount of his time at the aforementioned skating rink, where the owners had built a studio for an Atlanta production collective, [[Organized Noize]]. All of this was around 1986.<ref name=":0" />

In 1990, Austin branched out on his own. His work on Motown led him to work on albums by other acts signed to the label - the first being the little known group Glasswurk.<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy"/> Austin later helmed the bulk of the debut albums for the Motown signees [[Another Bad Creation]] and [[Boyz II Men]].<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Siegmund|first1=Heidi|title=The Young and the Rowdy : At 21, Dallas Austin is a hit R&B producer, an A&R scout, a hip-hop frontman and a record label owner. Now he wants to branch out|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-06-ca-3039-story.html|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 6, 1992|access-date=2015-12-20|archive-date=September 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924194006/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-06-ca-3039-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When he telephoned Joyce Irby to say that he was to work with Boyz II Men, she told him that she was going to "[sue] everybody" and immediately thereafter hung up the phone. Austin initially did not understand why she said this, but would later find out that it was because he was considered a "work for hire" employee of Irby. He consulted a lawyer and the lawyer said that although the  employment contracts to which he was a party were not favorable to him, they were fair enough so he advised Austin to keep working under them. Irby did not sue anybody and everything worked out as Austin was, as aforementioned, able to produce on the debut Boyz II Men record.<ref name=":0" /> When DJ Vlad asked Austin why he only produced one song on Boyz II Men's second album, he said it was because he "didn't like them" after the first album. He said in turn that this was because the members had ostensibly become vain since their success had begun, paraphrasing them emphasizing costly tangibles with statements such as "Man [...] I can't finish counting the diamonds in my Rolex right now.", and "we gotta let somebody win [referring to music industry awards] this year; good thing we're not there."<ref name=":0" />

Austin was later recruited by [[L.A. Reid]] and [[Babyface (musician)|Babyface]] to work on a couple of projects for their record label, [[LaFace Records]].<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy"/> The duo recruited him to work on the debut album for TLC.<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy"/> From there, he was granted a deal for his short-lived group Highland Place Mobsters, which was Austin joining Theophilus "Chip" Glass of Glasswurk who were formerly signed to Motown.<ref name="Red Bull Music Academy"/> through Joyce Irby's Diva One Productions.

In 2014 Austin appeared on ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'' as a co-host.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dallas Austin {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dallas-austin-mn0000953267/biography|access-date=2020-06-02|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917105259/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dallas-austin-mn0000953267/biography|url-status=live}}</ref>

After his success with other acts, Austin was recruited by [[After 7]] to produce a few songs on their second album, ''[[Takin' My Time (After 7 album)|Takin' My Time]]''. Austin then worked with [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] on her 1994 album ''[[Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)|Bedtime Stories]]''. In the 2000s, Austin worked with pop acts and produced hit singles like TLC's "[[Unpretty]]", [[Pink (singer)|Pink]]'s songs "[[Don't Let Me Get Me]]" and "[[Just Like a Pill]]", and [[Gwen Stefani]]'s 2004 single "[[Cool (Gwen Stefani song)|Cool]]".

In 2025, Austin was announced as one of the remixers for the [[2026 FIFA World Cup]] theme, representing [[Atlanta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inside.fifa.com/organisation/news/world-cup-2026-host-city-sonic-ids|title=Official FIFA World Cup 26™ Sonic IDs celebrate diversity and creativity of Host Cities|website=inside.fifa.com}}</ref>