For an artist with serious mainstream aspirations, Decatur, Georgias Jarren Benton has spent his career going against the grain. One of Funk Volumes premiere acts, Jarren admits, I love the music I do now. I do it in the safe-mode. Thats rather shocking for an artist whose last album, Freebasing With Kevin Bacon lived up to its name, at least... read full bio
Jarrett Adams is an Attorney at Law and is co-founder of Life After Justice. When Adams was only 17 years old, he was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and was sentenced to 28 years in a maximum security prison. Adams went on to serve for nearly 10 years and filed multiple appeals over the years before finally being exonerated with... read full bio
Jarrett Harper is an activist for criminal justice and foster care reform who wants to stop the pipeline from foster care to jail, improve rehabilitation services for people leaving the system and end life sentences for children. Jarrett overcame 20 years of mass incarceration and the foster care system in California. At the age of 16, after enduring unspeakable anguish and torture,... read full bio
Jarrett Jack is a former point guard for the Brooklyn Nets. By the end of high school, Scout.com rated Jack as a four-star prospect, the No. 9 point guard in the country and the No. 40 player overall. With an average of 12.5 points and 5.1 assists per game while playing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, he helped lead the club... read full bio
Southern Texas native Jarrod Birmingham grew up playing guitar and fiddle alongside his Grandfather since he was a young boy. Although music was a huge part of his life, it wasn’t his first career choice. Jarrod tried his hand at professional bull riding before he fully dedicated his life to his music. After facing hardships trying to be a bull... read full bio
Jarrod Dickenson is a Texas-based country singer and songwriter who pulls a lot from The Lone Star State’s tradition of deep western storytelling. He got his start in Waco but did what all traditional country singers do and made his way to Nashville where he resides today. However, he spends the majority of his time on the road, touring and... read full bio
Once regarded as one of the best-kept musical secrets in the Northwest, Jarrod Lawson has blossomed as a global phenomenon, topping charts, winning accolades, playing at esteemed venues and igniting new attention for Portland's emerging soul music scene. With his powerful message music, smokey-voiced singer-songwriter and virtuoso pianist Lawson has been making good waves around the world ever since he published... read full bio
Jarrod Morris is an up-and-coming country and Americana singer-songwriter from Largo, Florida. When Morris was seven years old, he moved to the small town of Decatur, Texas. Morris doesn’t consider himself to be just any one genre and likes to play any form of music that has a good melody and hook with a good amount of grit. Morris recently... read full bio
Jarryd James presented the world with his first single, titled "Do You Remember," which ultimately reached position number 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. His first studio album, titled Thirty One, peaked at number two on the ARIA Albums Chart when it was released. James took up the trophy for "Best Pop Release" at the ARIA Music Awards in 2015... read full bio
"Jars of Clay is a Christian music band with stylistic influences from alternative rock, R&B, folk, and acoustic. The band is comprised of Dan Haseltine as the lead vocalist, Stephen Mason as the lead guitarist, Charlie Lowell as the pianist, and Matthew Odmark as rhythm guitarist. The band members originally just helped each other with assignments from their music classes,... read full bio
Under the stage name Jarvis Church, Gerald Eaton is a Canadian musician who, before to releasing his self-titled solo debut, had already achieved a number of noteworthy musical achievements. He made up half of the production team for Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, whose albums sold a ton of copies and garnered an impressive array of accolades, such as several nominations... read full bio
Jarvis Jenkins is an American professional football defensive end who is currently a free agent in the NFL. Jenkins was born in Clemson, South Carolina, and he began his career playing football in high school where he was named an All-American by PrepStar and was named the South Carolina Coaches Association Upperstate AAA Lineman-of-the-Year. He was also the Daily Journal/Messenger... read full bio
From learning to play the piano in his parents' living room with Pink Floyd and Marc Cohn, to giving his first solo performances in the republic's pedestrian zones, to relocating to the capital. JAS's fantastic indie pop songs are the product of all these experiences paired with his astounding sense of melody; they sound like he breaths music like air.... read full bio
The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik is a best-selling book that imagines the friendship between photographer Dorothea Lange and her Chinese American helper in San Francisco in the 1920s. The Bohemians, a summer 2021 selection from the New York Times Book Review, is also among Oprah Daily's top historical fiction picks. Song of a Captive Bird, Darznik's first book, was a bestseller... read full bio
Hagen is where Jasmina Kuhnke was born. She writes comedy and sitcoms for TV and is also a columnist. Published by Rowohlt, her first book "Black Heart" Jasmina, performing as Quattromilf, which stands for "Mom I'd like to follow," is dedicated to combating racism and discrimination in public. Jasmina established the Sheroes Fund and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation after she... read full bio
Jasmine Cephas Jones is an American actress and singer who is best known for playing the roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’. Jones was born in New York City, New York and is the daughter of Ron Cephas Jones and Kim Lesley. She studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art... read full bio
Jasmine Guy is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World and Roxy in Dead Like Me. Guy began her television career playing as an extra in the 1982 series adaptation of Fame. She later had a role in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air where she played Kayla, one... read full bio
Jasmine Jethwa is back with a new track after her debut EP was released two years ago. "Golden" is a personal song that fits the up-and-coming artist's penchant for private storytelling and serves as another reassuringly mellow reminder of Jasmine's promising future. Jasmine grew up in a'melting pot' of Western and Indian traditions, influenced by personal tales of her South-East London... read full bio
Jasmine Murray has an exceptional career in show business. At the age of 22, she had already appeared on American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live! With Regis & Kelly, and was ranked in the Top 10 Miss America finalists. Wracked with stress and anxiety, Murray looked to stop her inside struggles and turned to God. Speaking from her soul,... read full bio
Based in Leeds, Jasmine Myra is a saxophone, composer and bandleader. Joining the city's vibrant, innovative and multi-genre music scene, she has surrounded herself with some of the north of England's finest up-and-coming musicians. Inspired by a wide range of musicians, including Bonobo, Olafur Arnalds and Kenny Wheeler, whose music has an expressive character that is also evident in Myra's own compositions, her... read full bio
