Jesse Boykins III Press Kit

ProducerSinger SongWriter

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Highlights:

Spring 1994– 1st Solo Lion King Musical (4th Grade)

Spring 2002– Most Likely to Win a Grammy (12th Grade)

Spring 2002– 1 of 12 Singers Chosen Nationwide for the Grammy Jazz Ensemble

Spring 2002– Recruited to attend New School University

Spring 2002– Started Independent Label NomaDic Music LLC

Spring 2008– Self Released Album Dopamine: My Life on My Back (EP)

Summer 2008– Tabloids Music Video #2 on Billboard Video Charts (CENTRIC)

Fall 2008– Self Released Album The Beauty Created (LP)

Winter 2008– Featured performer BET’s 106 & Park

Spring 2009– The Beauty Created Album released in Japan (Circulations)

Spring 2009– Accepted as Voting Member of the Recording Academy

Spring 2010– Tapped to be a premiere artist for BET’s Music Matters™ campaign

Summer 2010– “Spot Dates” National Tour

Fall 2010– BET’s 106th & Park Amorous video debut

Fall 2010– 2010 Soul Train Award Nominee (Centric Category)

Winter 2010/11– Love Apparatus vinyl single release B4 The Night Is Thru (Alala Records)

Winter 2010/11– Love Apparatus single release B4 The Night Is Thru (NoMadic Music, LLC)

Winter 2010/11– “The Romantic Movement” Worldwide Tour


Jesse Boykins III has a timeless sound. He shares a point of view that crosses all genres and generations. Every note and each word

in all his recorded works to his live performance

is skillfully crafted evoking emotions that move

the listener to examine and acknowledge those

feelings within themselves.


Jesse, born in Chicago February 20, 1985 spent

most of his childhood in Jamaica and Miami be-

fore spreading roots as a teenager in New York

City. In his youth Jesse spent most of his time

outside of school learning valuable life lessons

from his family. His aunts and uncles taught him

the value of setting goals for himself; his

grandmother a respect for spirituality; and his

mother a sense of passion and the importance

of staying dedicated and focused in order to

reach his goals and from all of them was grown

an adoration and reverence for music.

Jesse’s own musical creations began in the


4th grade. He developed a talent for hearing

sounds in his environment and using them as a

guide to create melodies that he would record

on his karaoke machine. It was around this time

that he began to seek out music outside of

what he had been exposed to growing up. He

sought out soul artists such as Stevie Wonder,

Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway; enigmatic

artists such as Bjork, Sade and Pink Floyd and

realizing from them the impact of words in

their songs he began to delve into the writ-

ings of Shakespeare and Langston Hughes.

From them he learned how to create depth in

his lyrics. He studied their use of metaphors


and imagery, and examined how they used these

techniques to create stories and worked these

methods into his own personal style.

At 16 Jesse was selected out of the nation to be

1 of 13 singers in the Grammy Jazz Ensemble,

where he was discovered and later recruited by

The New School University for Jazz and Contem-

porary Music. While studying at The New School

University, Jesse worked on refining his skills as a

writer, performer, arranger, producer and vocalist.

He studied with classical trainer Kenneth Kamal

Scott and soul artist Bilal. He also created


bonds with other talented creative people

who became integral parts of his team

and dedicated musicians forming his

supporting band, The Beauty Created.

In early 2008 Jesse entered into the

mainstream music scene with his first

release Dopamine: My Life On My Back.

His first single from that album, Tabloids

peaked at #2 on the Billboard Video

Monitor. His ambitious follow-up release

later that year, The Beauty Created

affirmed critics’ acclaim for Dopamine


while solidifying Jesse’s defining place in the

history of soul music. With the success of both

albums, music videos and many collaborations

with contemporaries such as The Foreign

Exchange, Theophilus London, MeLo-X,

Machine Drum, and Phantom Lover he has

gained international recognition and built

a loyal worldwide following.

Jesse’s talent and hard work was also recognized

by BET in 2010 when they tapped him to be a

major component in their BET Music Matters™

campaign granting him the distinction of being

one of the first independent artists to premiere a

video on their popular show BET’s 106th & Park.

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Dopamine

Dopamine: do·pa·mine- [doh-puh-meen]

(-noun) Dopamine is an endorphin that

affects the brain processes that control

movement, emotional response, and

ability to experience pleasure and pain.

Dopamine: My Life on My Back

is a soulful narrative that speaks

of a relationship from beginning

to end. It covers a range of candid

emotions from infatuation to lust

to obsession with love and the

pain of love lost. My Life On My Back ft. J.A.M.E.S Watts (J. Boykins III)

Tabloids (J. Boykins III)

Sounds Like Love (J. Boykins III)

Baby I Don’t Know (J. Boykins III)

The Sea (J. Boykins III)

Sobriety (J. Boykins III)

Think (J. Boykins III)

ALL (Outro) (J. Boykins III)


Self Released AlbumDopamine: My Life on My Backwritten, produced, arranged, and engineer by Jesse Boykins III & TBC (ASCAP)


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The Beauty CreatedThe subjects of the literature of the Romantic

Movement focused on the quest for beauty; the

faraway, the long-ago, and the lurid; escapism

from contemporary problems; and nature as a

source of knowledge, refuge, and divinity.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Beauty Created is an opus of new classics

that inspire the excitement of infatuation, the

wistfulness of summer romance and the

nostalgia of a Spike Lee joint. The album boasts

an unabashed admiration of romance

intertwined with Jesse’s organic tone,

innovative sound and live instrumentals.

Intro

Fever (J. Boykins III, J. Most)

Amorous (J. Boykins III, A. Coleman II, J. Most)

Come to My Room (J. Boykins III, S. Wyreman)

Whispers (J. Boykins III, S. Wyreman)

Shine (J. Boykins III, S. Wyreman)

Trust (J. Boykins III , B. Wajdowicz , R. Del Fiero)

Victoria (J.Boykins III, M. Ross III, D. Moran)

Pantyhose (J.Boykins III, M. Ross III, D. Moran)

Itis (J.Boykins, S. Mckie, T. Witfield)

Sunstar (J. Boykins III, S. Wyreman)

Loopy (J. Boykins III, H. Blatt)

Connected (J.Boykins III, Afta-1)

Chanel (J. Boykins III, H. Blatt)

Be All Truth (J.Boykins III, S. Wyreman)

Tabloids- Machine Drum Remix (J. Boykins III)

Tabloids- Melo-X House Remix (J. Boykins III)


Self Released AlbumThe Beauty Createdwritten, produced, arranged, and engineered by Jesse Boykins III & TBC (ASCAP)


Jesse was further rewarded by earning a

nomination for a 2010 Soul Train Award,

which can be largely credited to his release

of the video, Amorous (dir. Dr. Woo Art)

and his worldwide Romantic Movement

Tour that year.

Currently Jesse is completing his third

album Love Apparatus with producer Ma-

chine Drum. With the lead single B4 the

Night is Thru, released on Robert “Bobbito”

García’s vinyl label Alala Records, they

delighted fans and critics alike with the

evolution of his sound. Jesse considers himself

a musical explorer. While recording Love

Apparatus Jesse traveled worldwide marking

new experiences and exploring new sounds and

incorporating that into the project. In his own

words he says, “I create World Soul that marks

moments in time. Each time I introduce new

music to my fans I want it to become a defining

part of their lives as much as it is a part of mine.”

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Videography

Prototype 3010 Come To My Room

Amorous Itis

Videography cont.


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