Biography
R&B crooner Jay-El joined his church choir at the age of four and began landing paid engagements at banquets and parties before reaching his teens. As an adult he carried his voice from Middleton, CT, to the Apollo Theater in New York in 2000. An a cappella take on Usher’s “Bedtime” earned him a standing ovation, after which he claimed first place in the theater’s amateur-night contest three straight times before the season closed. Broadcasts of those appearances on the Apollo’s nationally syndicated television program soon raised his profile inside the R&B world. Building on that momentum, he issued the full-length album Be About Yours in 2003.
Albums
