“I love the way Rock n’ Roll artists tour,” he says. The song also helped him find a new voice musically and explore a more melodic songwriting style that brought in more Rock and Country influence to his style.īorn and raised in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood, Jelly Roll found his strategy by observing the different tactics taken in different genres. In 2020 he released “Save Me”-a confessional, vulnerable expression of self-doubt took him to new heights, with more than 65 million views on YouTube and Gold certification from the RIAA. Since his days selling his mix tapes out of his car, he has constantly been creating and releasing new music and videos, touring relentlessly, and consistently topping various iTunes charts with his deeply personal lyrics and music that blends Old-school Rap, Classic Rock, Country and Soul that is therapeutic, raw and tackles the heaviness in life. Outright genre-bending singer/songwriter/rapper Jelly Roll has quietly been building a remarkable career and creative empire, under the radar- under the nose of Nashville’s Music Row and the entire music industry- and doing it on his own terms. I always say that I make music for people, not for money-and the byproduct of people listening to it is that you might make some money.” ![]() “They make music for money, not for people. ![]() “A lot of people have it backwards,” says Jelly Roll.
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