Fifty Vinc

Vincent Jewell (born 9 June 1994, in Datteln), known professionally as Fifty Vinc (sometimes stylized in all caps), is a German music producer and composer.

Early life
Vinc grew up bilingual in Lüdinghausen, Germany, as his father is a native of New Jersey, USA. His father was a DJ in various clubs in the United States in his youth, spinning Hip-Hop, Funk und RnB music.

Initially, Vinc attended elementary school, but after the second grade he was transfarred to a special school for children with behavioral problems. Later, he switched to a secondary school, then to a vocational college. In 2015, he successfully passed his High school diploma.

From 2017 to 2020, Vinc completed vocational training as a freight forwarding and logistics services clerk before starting his own business composing and producing music.

Career
Due to Vinc' former hobby of breakdancing, he originally started producing breakdance music as a hobby at a young age. Later, he mainly produced music in the genres of Hip-Hop and Rap. Because of his biggest role model, Hans Zimmer and his passion for epic, orchestral and trailer music, Vinc began combining classical and modern Hip-Hop musical elements early on. This style of music was strongly influenced by Vinc. Later, he discovered composing for TV, film and Video games.

In September 2016, the album Trittschall by female rapper and amateur actress Nina Menke (also known as Mrs. Nina Chartier) was released, on which Vinc produced the songs Flaschenpost (feat. Jacy) and Outro. The album was released by the label Keine Faxen, distributed by Sony Music.

At the event UFC 268 Vinc provided the walkout song for the participant Andreas Michailidis, as well as at the event UFC Fight Night: Jacaré vs. Hermansson for the participant Jason Gonzalez. The events were broadcast on the American TV channel ESPN.

Vinc was also involved in the official soundtrack of the Brazilian short film Djorge: Da Bonja pro Mundo in collaboration with DidekBeats.

In 2016, 2017, 2021, as well as 2022, Vinc contributed a composition to each of the official soundtracks of the international breakdance event Battle of the Year, which was released by the Dominance Records label. The event was filmed in 2013 and featured actor and singer Chris Brown among others.

In 2018, 2021 and 2023 the instrumental singles Golden Era, Verdansk and The Conquest were released by Vinc and platinum producer Sadikbeatz, who has composed and produced several songs for artists like Kollegah.

In October 2019, the official video mixtape King's Blood Volume 2 of basketball player LeBron James Jr. (also known as Bronny James), son of the professional NBA basketball player LeBron James, was released by Ballislife, which is underlined by the music of Vinc.

The album Messias II by German chart rapper Rapido  was released in 2019, on which Vinc produced the songs Messias II and Vollautoamtisch II.

Rapper Chris Ares has also used Vinc' musical arts on several occasions. The album Ares, released on 3 July 2020, on which the songs Intro, BRDigung, Löwe and Machtwechsel were produced by Vinc, made it to peak 44 (1 week) in the official charts of Switzerland.

Vinc' composition Way of the Warrior, which counts multiple million views on YouTube alone, has been used for the single Killer's Blood by the artist Cryptik Soul and the rappers Swifty Mcvay and Kuniva. McVay and Kuniva are former members of the multi-award-winning hip-hop crew D12, which since 1999 was signed to the label Shady Records of the successful US rapper Eminem.

On 3 June 2020, Vinc released the album Hip Hop & Rap Beats 5, which consists of hip-hop and rap instrumentals, as well as orchestral music combined with modern beats. The album made it to the Greek iTunes Top 100 Hip-Hop/Rap Albums on peak 17 (for 1 week) in September 2020.

In 2022, he released the single Work It Out (feat. Didker & Agf.Israel), as well as We Gonna Make It (feat. Julian Rübner & Dogman Rukus), Look Out, Halloween Nightmare and Jazz Do It, which brought Vinc to the attention of several hip-hop magazines und blogs. Among others he was mentioned in LA Weekly and in The Source.

In the same year, the album Spiritual Warfare 2 was released by Spirit Of Truth on which Vinc produced the songs Lone Wolf (feat. Ill Bill & Celph Titled) and Firestorm (feat. K-da Venom, King Magnetic & Slaine).

Also in 2022, Vinc participated in the FMC – Film Music Contest, an international music competition in the category of Music for Film, TV, Advertising, Video Games, and successfully reached the finals, where six other participants competed alongside him.

Likewise, compositions by Vinc for TV, film and video games have been released for industry use and licensing by Epic Music LA,  FBP Music Publishing,  Amori Sounds / Marmoset Music   and Hunchback Music.

Vinc is an official power user of the digital audio workstation (DAW) FL Studio, which was developed by the company Image-Line.

Most of his works are managed and published by music publishers Beastars Publishing Worldwide and Sony Music Publishing (formerly Sony/ATV).