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JMSN
The New Alternative
R&B Electronica
Soul Favorite

i Musisi bergenre alternative R&B
electronica soul ini sudah beberapa
kali menggenggam kontrak label-label
besar, mulai dari Atlantic Records
sampai Universal Motown, bersama
sejumlah proyek bandnya. Catatan
ini menandakan talentanya sebagai
penyanyi multi-instrumentalis yang juga
mematangkan diri sebgai penulis lagu,
produser rekaman, dan music engineer.
Nama aslinya adalah Christian Berishaj,
keturunan Albania yang meniti solo karier
dengan album perdana Priscilla (2012)
dan mulai memakai nama panggung JMSN
(Jameson) dengan mengetengahkan album
perdana bernapaskan sisi gelap, yang serta e The alternative R&B electronica soul musician has successfully signed several
merta menjadi favorit penyanyi R&B, Usher. contracts with big record labels, from Atlantic Records to Universal Motown, and
Kini, JMSN telah menelurkan total enam landed on a number of projects with his band. Such notes hone his talents as a multi-
album di bawah White Room Records, instrumentalist singer as well as a songwriter, record producer, and music engineer.
mencakup pula Pllajë (2013), JMSN a.k.a The Albanian descent born as Christian Berishaj, who started his solo career with
Blue Album (2014), It Is (2016), Whatever his debut album Priscilla (2012) which highlights the side of melancholy and adopted
Makes U Happy (2017), serta Velvet (2018) a stage name of JMSN (Jameson), inevitably becomes the favorite of R&B singer, Usher.
dengan bekal hits-hits seperti “Alone”, To this day, JMSN has released six albums under White Room Records label,
“Love & Pain”, dan “You’re Gone” yang including Pllajë (2013), JMSN a.k.a Blue Album (2014), It Is (2016), Whatever Makes U
juga menangguk ratusan ribu hingga satu Happy (2017), and Velvet (2018) which included hits such as “Alone”, “Love & Pain”, and
juta lebih view di YouTube. “You’re Gone” that gained hundreds of thousands to a million more views on YouTube.

Nathan East Band Of Brothers i Orang mengenal Nathan East sebagai e People might recognize Nathan East as
Most Wanted Bass pemain bass Fourplay. Namun jauh the bassist of Fourplay. Still, long before
he mastered the low-pitched electric
sebelum memegang instrumen elektrik
Player bernot rendah tersebut, Nathan lebih music instrument, Nathan was a cello
dulu mengenal cello dan tergabung di
player and involved in an orchestra,
orkestra. Sampai akhirnya, ia mengagumi until he discovered the works of Charles
Charles Mingus dan Paul McCartney. Mingus and Paul McCartney.
Nathan makin yakin dengan bass While he was not even 17 years old,
ketika direkrut Barry White saat belum Nathan felt more confident when he was
genap 17 tahun dan main di panggung- recruited by Barry White and performed
panggung besar, seperti Apollo Theatre, in big stages such as the Apollo Theatre,
Madison Square Garden, sampai Kennedy Madison Square Garden, to Kennedy
Center di Washington. Sejak itu, ia Center in Washington. Since then, music
mulai dihubungi musisi besar, dari John luminaries started to want him, from
McLaughlin hingga Phil Collins, yang kini ia John McLaughlin to Phil Collins, which
pun makin sibuk. keeping him busy to this day.
Smooth jazz pada akhirnya melekat Smooth jazz is inevitably connected
pada musisi yang mengembangkan to this bass player who developed the
bass bersama Yamaha ini, sekalipun dia instrument in a collaboration with Yamaha,
cenderung tidak suka mengotak-ngotakkan even though he tends to avoid classifying
genre, dan lebih suka konsep hibrida, serta genres and more interested in the
sesuatu yang spontan dan memercik, concept of hybridity as well as something
terutama ketika asyik menyatukan ide that is spontaneous and splatter,
bersama Fourplay. Di Jakarta International particularly while working on ideas with
BNI Java Jazz Festival 2019 sendiri, Nathan his band, Fourplay. In Jakarta International
akan tampil dengan salah satu band-nya, BNI Java Jazz Festival 2019, Nathan will
Band of Brothers. perform in a captivating live show with one
of his bands, Band of Brothers.

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