His career spans a late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and has won him many Grammy awards. He is probably virtually all swell known for Miami Vice Theme and ''Crockett's Theme, from a popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice''. Famously he plays guitar area within his compositions in synthesizers & has write on how else he achieves this burden.

Jan's boy Paul is presently the student at New York University and currently performs as a solo creative person inside various Up to date York City venues.

Childhood

Jan was natural inside Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the a portion of the Czech Republic). His mother was the swell known Czech singer, & his father was the doctor. When a childhood good of music, he entered the extremely prestigious Prague Academy of Musical Arts.

Moving to the United States

While a Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, his studies at the Academy were cut short, & he moved to the United States after receiving the scholarship to Boston's Berklee School Of Music.

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Upon completion one studies, Jan moved to Lower Manhattan and joined the Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1971. within the deuce years this class action was together, it sold terminated 2 million records prior to disbanding in 1973.

Red Gate Studio

Jan spent a considerable total of his saving money in constructing his have recording complex (the Red Gate Studio) in his New York property, which helped his solo career. He went in to record by having several of the era's virtually all respected musicians.

Miami Vice

Within 1984, a producers of the coming television series Miami Vice asked him to require on the project of scoring the music for every episode of the program. Jan agreed, & inside 1985 his theme song for the program reached number one on the Billboard Singles Chart. It remains a lone subservient television theme song to email first. It remained at a top of the Usa stock & index charts for xii weeks, became quadruple pt and earned Jan ii Grammy Awards.

Discography
The Number 1 Seven Days Oh Yeah Miami Vice The Early Years Escape from either Television Snapshots Beyond a Mind's Eye Drive Snapshots I.2 Miami Vice : A Complete Collection The Better of Miami Vice