Jonathan Perkins

About Jonathan

Jonathan Perkins is a multi-platinum songwriter and producer, and an Emmy Award–winning composer with over 10 million units sold. Some recent credits include the Chainsmokers’ album Memories…Do Not Open, and multiple releases with K-pop sensations BTS, Taemin, and NCT 127. Formerly signed to Orange Factory Music, the production team behind worldwide phenomenon Jay Sean, he was a writer on Sean's smash sensation "Down," featuring Lil Wayne, which went six times platinum internationally, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2009, as well as on Sean’s single “Do You Remember,” featuring Sean Paul and Lil Jon, which went two times platinum and reached the Billboard Top 10. His other credits include Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, Big Time Rush, Frankie J, and Cody Simpson, among others. He attained his first No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Play charts with his work on Jason Nevins’s remix of Rihanna’s "S.O.S."

Perkins also has extensive experience in scoring and orchestration. He won an Emmy in 2010 in the Outstanding Program/Special in the Business/Consumer category for composing the score for a documentary by the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times entitled "Doing Business in China.” His music can also be heard on MTV'S Room Raiders and Teen Cribs, and on channels such as VH1 and BET. He was mentored by film composer Richard Horowitz (Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky) and composer Sussan Deyhim (Peter Gabriel, Bill Laswell).

Jonathan is currently the Assistant Chair of the Songwriting Department at Berklee College of Music, having started in the fall of 2019.