Jordan Joseph’s life was forever altered by his grandfather’s words of wisdom.
“One of the richest places in the world is a cemetery,” Jordan recalls his grandfather
saying to him. “It is because so many ideas, songs, movies and books go unwritten,
unheard or unseen. I didn’t want to leave this world not having done the very thing
that’s in my heart and I feel like I could change the world, to touch hearts and
reinspire love at a time where we need it most. That alone changed everything for
me.”

Moved by his grandfather’s lesson, Jordan dedicated himself to the very thing he’d
been thinking about every day. The Michigan native decided to go all-in with his
biggest dream, to become a singer.

Although he grew up around music and had plans of being in a group, Jordan felt as
though it was his time to emerge as a solo artist. So, on April 22, 2017 (Earth Day)
Jordan released the video for his cover of James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go.”
Jordan had become enamored with Arthur’s voice and gravitated to the song, which
helped him get through a tough time in his life, which included a break-up.

Jordan’s next cover was of “There For You,” a Martin Garrix and Troy Sivan song. He
listened to the cut while he was working out and was thinking about the disasters in
Houston and Florida, as well as the racial strife consuming America. Jordan took this
as a sign that the universe was trying to bring the world together through love, and
not have as much focus on politics and reality television.

While the covers helped soothe his soul, Jordan hit his creative stride with his first
piece of original material. For his lead single “Cruel Intentions,” Jordan had a poetry
moment where he had to stop and write about the last time he was in love. He built
the song’s lyrics from that poem, resulting in a stirring urban pop record with an
R&B lean and a powerful story.

“It’s about your last true love no longer being in your life and dating someone else,”
Jordan reveals. “Although you get over it, you miss them. For me, the record is very
true. After the breakup I sang about, it took a very long time for me to get over it. I
was still looking at social media late at night, still texting by accident, hoping for a
moment to connect. I was still thinking about the last kiss, the last time we were
intimate. That’s the record. It’s about missing someone, missing the moment you
had the last time you were in love.”

“Cruel Intentions” set the stage for Jordan’s forthcoming EP, which he plans to
release soon.

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Jordan has plenty of rich material from which to draw for
his poetry and his music. His biological father wasn’t in his life as a child, and he

was in a near-fatal car accident when he was three months old. He was dead for
several minutes, and doctors told his mother and grandmother that it was a miracle
that he was alive, that he wouldn’t walk, talk, or live as a normal child. A scar on his
head is a daily reminder of the accident.

But Jordan overcame the incident and fell in love with music. His stepfather was a
producer, and he and his family always had a studio in their house. Jordan loved
being in the studio with his stepfather and performing with his family.

“I liked the idea of performing and having people watch,” Jordan explains. “As a kid,
you don’t think about the fear of it or being judged. There was so much freedom in
terms of getting in front of the family and signing and dancing all together.”
As a kid, Jordan imagined himself in a group in order to insulate himself with the
type of love he didn’t get from his real father. In school, he performed in musicals
and sang in both his church and high school choirs.

But when his stepfather went to prison, Jordan’s life fell apart. He stopped working
on music and left home. Setting up shop in Atlanta, he pursued acting and modeling.
He then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, but signed with a manager
who failed to deliver on his promises. This setback led Jordan to strike out on his
own as a solo artist. He thought he needed to fill the void of love and confidence he
felt by being in a group. Instead, he found that covering songs and now recording his
own material has proven to be the elixir he’d been seeking.

“I always felt God’s gift to me was my heart,” Jordan reveals. “It is so big and I’m
supposed to keep sharing it. I’ve done nothing but what I thought would be good for
the world and try to inspire love and make every move that I make about love.”
Now with “Cruel Intentions” gaining steam online and his debut EP in the works,
Jordan feels as though he made the right choice by mustering the strength to pursue
his dreams.

“The thing that you’re scared of most in the world is probably the thing that you’re
supposed to do,” he says, “because on the other side of that fear is a change that you
never saw coming.”
Believe it.

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