Where is jhameel from

ML: Which artists have influenced your music? And who would you love to play a show with? I love that band. J: Separating your personal life and your career life is particularly hard, because so much of your personal life goes into being a musician. Are you the same person there? Whatever is in my mind, I have the power to put that on the recording. For the uninitiated, unaware, or even broadband lacking masses, Jhameel is a 22 year old indie pop making machine who is aiming to transform the music industry.

He is an artist for the 21st century: a talented multi-instrumentalist, singer and self-producer who releases all his music for free, and boy is it worth it! The buzz around the young man is palpable, and deservedly so, as his funky, synth pop songs wear their influences proudly — FYI eighties Michael Jackson and Prince FTW. With each successive release better than the last, Tom Watts catches up with Jhameel a fortnight before his new EP launch, to discuss face paint, name changes and cellos.

Umm…Identity crisis?! It was kind of a statement, you know? Taking control of who I am and my own life. Nice one! So, when did you start performing music? He eventually dropped out of the ROTC, and within two years, had graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Arabic, changed his name to Jhameel he refuses to release his birth name , and embarked on a career in music.

Inspired by Prince , Michael Jackson , and the high-energy, mercurial, electro-pop of bands like Phoenix and MGMT , the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist self-released his eponymous debut album in , followed in by the Dance EP, and his sophomore full-length The Human Condition.

A second EP, Waves, arrived in AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. That this is how I dance. In your YouTube videos, are you really getting drunk? Um, honestly at that point it was a couple of women.

It was the idea of women. Pigeons or Planes? Because pigeons are the pioneers of flight. You know what I mean? So this next series is going to be really dark. The first one is not dark, but the second one. Is there anything else that you want to get off of your chest? Are there any other messages that you want to promote in your music?

And there are a lot of people listening now. I want to keep promoting good values. Art is power—art is so powerful. I want to make sure to keep saying the right things, and what I think is right for society. So fuck sexism, and no more bullshit. I want to just keep talking about things I believe in.