Career
He has produced songs for prominent artists such as Monica, Britney Spears, Usher, Keri Hilson, T.I., Nelly Furtado, Kevin Cossom, Ciara, Mariah Carey, Timbaland, Madonna, J. Cole, Kanye West, Whitney Houston, Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, JoJo, Joe Jonas, Simple Plan, The Clutch, Pink, T-Pain, Diddy, Björk and Duran Duran. Danja charges around $50,000-100,000 a track. Hills, born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, took up drums and piano in his early teens.
He got his start by playing in his church when he was growing up.
In 2000, Hills worked with producer and singer Teddy Riley on Blackstreet"s fourth album, Level World War II In 2001, a chance encounter with Timbaland turned into an opportunity to play some music for him. Two years later, Timbaland brought Danja to Miami to work in his studio.
With Timbaland, Hills produced a wide catalog of songs that helped return the famous producer to prominence in 2006 with an ongoing string of hits throughout the year until present, including "Put You On The Game" by rapper The Game, "Promiscuous" and "Say lieutenant Right" by Nelly Furtado, "SexyBack", "What Goes Around..Comes Around" and "My Love" by Justin Timberlake among others, such as "Love Story" by Katharine McPhee, "Innocence" and "Earth Intruders" by Björk, and "Give lieutenant to Maine" and "The Way I Are" off Timbaland"s second solo album. In 2007, Danja produced "Gimme More" for Britney Spears, as well as "Break the Ice" and five other tracks for her Blackout album.
The following year, he produced "Kill the Lights" and five other songs for Britney Spears" album Circus, but only three songs appeared on the album.
Danja produced the song, Toy Soldier on the Keri Hilson album Number Boys Allowed, "Freak" by Jamie Foxx, "The Writer" by Jesse McCartney, "Sleep When I"m Gone" by DJ Khaled for his upcoming album "We The Best Forever". Danja has also been in studio with rapper J. Cole working on his debut album Cole World. Danja also produced 3 songs on Diddy - Dirty Money"s Last Train To Paris.
According to Danja"s Twitter account, He was in studio with Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z. Danja is working with his artist Kevin Cossom for his debut, L.O.V.E. He produced the first single, "Baby I Like lieutenant" which features Fabolous and Diddy.
He produced the single "Believe", as well as two leaks "Don"t Leave Maine Rose" and "Killer" by Travis Garland. He recently produced the song "Everything On Maine" on T.I"s latest album "Number Mercy".
Danja has also produced "Sexy to Maine" by singer/songwriter Joanna Levesque, which is also featured on the singer"s commercial for Clearasil. Since 2011, the publishing interest of Danja’s catalog has been represented Reservoir Media Management.
