“WITNESS ME” ft. @shawnmendes @stormzy @kirkfranklin – out November 21st @ 6:10pm UK / 10:10am PT ♥️
“WITNESS ME” with @kirkfranklin @shawnmendes @stormzy OUT NOW!!!!!
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
10 years ago today, I released a YouTube video from my little room in London that changed my world forever.
I had just turned 19 – fresh faced and on a mission to stretch my understanding of harmony to the edge of sane. I recorded every voice and instrument with a single SM58 microphone into Logic, and filmed everything on my sister’s iPad. I edited it together in an archaic Final Cut Express, which I figured out how to use watching YouTube tutorials. After a couple long weeks of work… it was done! I sat in the same room from which I write to you now, and sent the video up into the ether, not knowing what was to come of it.
The response was beyond my wildest imagination. A few days later, I received an email from @quincyjones that transformed my life, and shortly after that, an email from @herbiehancock — which blasted my mind to smithereens. I took a trip to meet the two of them at the @montreuxjazzfestival the following summer, and made two lifelong friends. About a year later, I got to meet Stevie himself, to shake his hand and hear, to my staggerdom and delight, that the video had found its way to him. It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of as a child, creating by myself in this little room.
From there has sprawled a miraculous journey – a road through four albums and three world tours – every minute of it beautiful and never not surreal. It’s been a decade beyond comprehension, and somehow it’s brought me directly to you, wherever you sit right now reading this. I’m so glad to have reached you, and am so proud to have found such a miraculous community of people all over the world who are showing up for each other and the things I’m creating. Thank you all for being a part of my weird and wacko world – and here’s to many more decades of adventuring forth together!
JC 🫶🏼
How it started VS how it’s going 👁️👁️ Witness Me feat. @shawnmendes , @stormzy & @kirkfranklin – out Tuesday, 6:10pm UK / 10:10am PT / 1:10pm ET 💫 Pre-save in link in bio!
WHEREVER I GOOOOOOOO
(out now) !!!!
A magnificent Audience Choir in India 🇮🇳
“WITNESS ME” ft. @shawnmendes @stormzy @kirkfranklin — OUT NOW ✨✨✨
I FINISHED DJESSE VOL. 4!!!!!!! London, United Kingdom
Alchemy in Mumbai 🧡🤍💚 Mumbai, Maharashtra
Wherever I Go (popcorn shaker + U Bass edition)
HERE WE GOOOOOOO!!!!! 2024 North America Djesse Vol. 4 Tour. Artist Presale live now (password: DJESSE). General onsale Friday. Link in bio 🌟
I am SO excited about this. My first ever full concert film – live from a sold-out Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, July 29th 2022 – will be streaming live on YouTube on Wednesday at 8pm UK time. I’ll be hosting a live video Q&A to boot. Come hang!!! Link in bio.
“WHEREVER I GO” feat. @lawrencetheband & @michaelmcdonaldofficial — OUT NOW!!!
WITNESS ME feat. @shawnmendes @stormzy @kirkfranklin – OUT NOW!!!!!!!
ASIA RECAP!! (I finished Djesse Vol. 4)
📹: @doddssy + me 🙂 Asia
Happy Easter !!!!
Thank you @bbcradio1 for making “Witness Me” your “Hottest Record In The World”! I got a chance to hang with @claraamfo and chew the cud. It was wonderful.
