Nick Jonas

Renowned as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, Nick Jonas first rose to prominence as one member of the enormously successful Disney Channel sibling pop-rock outfit the Jonas Brothers. From 2010 onward he has channeled most of his energy into individual projects, issuing solo recordings, taking on stage musicals, and appearing in movies and television series. Although catchy pop still anchors his style, he has grown more adventurous, enlisting players from Prince’s New Power Generation for the 2010 Nick Jonas & the Administration debut Who I Am. That set reached number three on the Billboard 200 and opened doors for later refined solo efforts such as the 2014 release Nick Jonas and 2016’s Last Year Was Complicated, both of which also entered the Billboard 200’s upper tier and featured guest spots from Tove Lo, Ty Dolla $ign, and Big Sean. Between acting roles in the 2016 fraternity-hazing film Goat and the 2017 comedy Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Jonas continued testing fresh pop directions alongside Nicki Minaj, Mike Posner, and DJ Robin Schulz. After the chart-topping 2019 Jonas Brothers reunion album Happiness Begins, he resumed solo activity with the 2021 album Spaceman.

Onstage since age seven, when he joined the Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun, Nick made his songwriting bow in 2002 after a holiday song he co-wrote with his father appeared on a Broadway Christmas collection. Columbia Records signed him two years later. While preparing solo material with his older siblings Kevin and Joseph, he watched the project expand into a permanent trio eventually called the Jonas Brothers.

Years passed before the group found a devoted following. Their 2006 debut It’s About Time failed commercially, prompting Columbia to drop them in 2007. A move to Hollywood Records that same year helped them reach younger, predominantly female listeners through Disney platforms; the brothers guest-starred on network series, landed their own show, co-starred with Demi Lovato in a made-for-TV movie, and moved nearly two million copies of their self-titled second album. They duplicated that success the next year with A Little Bit Longer and returned in 2009 with Lines, Vines and Trying Times. Nick supplied the bulk of the songwriting and performed on an array of instruments ranging from drums and keyboards to guitar.

Stepping away briefly from the band in late 2009, Nick assembled a side project that included Michael Bland and Tommy Barbarella from Prince’s New Power Generation. The resulting outfit, Nick Jonas & the Administration, issued Who I Am in early 2010. The album climbed to number three on the U.S. charts and sold 151,000 copies, yet rumors soon circulated that Nick intended to rejoin his brothers. Those plans were abandoned when a planned 2013 tour was canceled weeks before its start and the band subsequently disbanded. Jonas relaunched his solo career with a 2014 tour and the November arrival of an eponymous album. Momentum built quickly as the Top Ten single “Jealous” topped Billboard’s dance charts, a feat matched by “Chains” and the bonus track “Levels” from 2015’s Nick Jonas X2.

During summer 2016 Jonas delivered Last Year Was Complicated, produced in part by Jason Evigan, Mattman & Robin, and Sir Nolan. The set included the Tove Lo duet “Close” and “Bacon” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200. Around the same period he resumed acting in the erotic thriller Careful What You Wish For and the fraternity drama Goat. In 2017 he issued the single “Remember I Told You” with Anne-Marie and Mike Posner, contributed “Bom Bidi Bom” with Nicki Minaj to the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, and appeared in the blockbuster action-comedy Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Teaming with German DJ Robin Schulz the following year, he released “Right Now,” which reached number 14 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Reuniting with his brothers in 2019 for the album Happiness Begins, Jonas helped propel the project to number one on the Billboard 200 behind the chart-topping single “Sucker.” After completing the accompanying tour, he returned to solo work with the 2020 standalone single “Until We Meet Again” and, in March 2021, the Greg Kurstin-produced album Spaceman.