Music Artist - Jordan Joseph
Summary: Jordan Joseph’s life was forever altered by his grandfather’s words of wisdom.<br>“One of the richest places in the world is a cemetery,” Jordan recalls his grandfather<br>saying to him. “It is because so many ideas, songs, movies and books go unwritten,<br>unheard or unseen. I didn’t want to leave this world not having done the very thing<br>that’s in my heart and I feel like I could change the world, to touch hearts and<br>reinspire love at a time where we need it most. That alone changed everything for<br>me.”<br><br>Moved by his grandfather’s lesson, Jordan dedicated himself to the very thing he’d<br>been thinking about every day. The Michigan native decided to go all-in with his<br>biggest dream, to become a singer.<br><br>Although he grew up around music and had plans of being in a group, Jordan felt as<br>though it was his time to emerge as a solo artist. So, on April 22, 2017 (Earth Day)<br>Jordan released the video for his cover of James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go.”<br>Jordan had become enamored with Arthur’s voice and gravitated to the song, which<br>helped him get through a tough time in his life, which included a break-up.<br><br>Jordan’s next cover was of “There For You,” a Martin Garrix and Troy Sivan song. He<br>listened to the cut while he was working out and was thinking about the disasters in<br>Houston and Florida, as well as the racial strife consuming America. Jordan took this<br>as a sign that the universe was trying to bring the world together through love, and<br>not have as much focus on politics and reality television.<br><br>While the covers helped soothe his soul, Jordan hit his creative stride with his first<br>piece of original material. For his lead single “Cruel Intentions,” Jordan had a poetry<br>moment where he had to stop and write about the last time he was in love. He built<br>the song’s lyrics from that poem, resulting in a stirring urban pop record with an<br>R&B lean and a powerful story.<br><br>“It’s about your last true love no longer being in your life and dating someone else,”<br>Jordan reveals. “Although you get over it, you miss them. For me, the record is very<br>true. After the breakup I sang about, it took a very long time for me to get over it. I<br>was still looking at social media late at night, still texting by accident, hoping for a<br>moment to connect. I was still thinking about the last kiss, the last time we were<br>intimate. That’s the record. It’s about missing someone, missing the moment you<br>had the last time you were in love.”<br><br>“Cruel Intentions” set the stage for Jordan’s forthcoming EP, which he plans to<br>release soon.<br><br>Born in Lansing, Michigan, Jordan has plenty of rich material from which to draw for<br>his poetry and his music. His biological father wasn’t in his life as a child, and he<br><br>was in a near-fatal car accident when he was three months old. He was dead for<br>several minutes, and doctors told his mother and grandmother that it was a miracle<br>that he was alive, that he wouldn’t walk, talk, or live as a normal child. A scar on his<br>head is a daily reminder of the accident.<br><br>But Jordan overcame the incident and fell in love with music. His stepfather was a<br>producer, and he and his family always had a studio in their house. Jordan loved<br>being in the studio with his stepfather and performing with his family.<br><br>“I liked the idea of performing and having people watch,” Jordan explains. “As a kid,<br>you don’t think about the fear of it or being judged. There was so much freedom in<br>terms of getting in front of the family and signing and dancing all together.”<br>As a kid, Jordan imagined himself in a group in order to insulate himself with the<br>type of love he didn’t get from his real father. In school, he performed in musicals<br>and sang in both his church and high school choirs.
