Her love for music came about in a cliché’ manner, it started in a school play at the age of 4 or 5. Her older brother was a huge inspiration as far as her pursuance of music as a career, he put out his own CD when he was just 16 years old. 3 of her 4 brothers are musicians, the oldest is a pianist, the next oldest is a rocker that writes and performs all his own music and the youngest is a drummer. So she grew up in a house where there was always a multitude and variety of sounds and music. Hailing from Monmouth County, New Jersey she is J-Dia.

Her musical style was inspired by not necessarily the sounds of but the styles of music made by Tracey Chapman, Tupac, Billy Joel, Nas and Fiona Apple.

J-Dia says her music is about life experiences but she feels that people want to enjoy music, they don’t want to be preached to. She makes music people can identify with “I’m not trying to preach or teach people anything through my music, that’s not what they want. People want music that they can feel, something they can bob their heads to” says J-Dia.

Her music is a fusion of R&B, hip-hop and pop she calls her music Hip-Pop. Its hip hop beats with pop vocals. Determined to create her own sound and not wanting to come out sounding like anyone else, J-Dia may not have only created her own sound she may have even invented her own genre. If she didn’t make it up it’s surely a term seldom used to describe a style of music. She calls it hip-pop and she aspires to be the queen of it. “ My music is not straight hip-hop and definitely not pop. You can look at my history and tell that there’s no way that I’m going to be that cookie cutter, bubble -gum artist” says J-Dia”.

She hopes her music career will enable her to pursue outside contributions. She wants to start organizations to get the homeless off the streets beginning in New York and eventually going global. “There’s a lot of work I want to do in Africa. I want to get people involved in feeding Africa. That’s a huge cause of mine. I’d also like to help fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. I feel like a lot of people already give that cause a lot of attention now but not as much as there needs to be. I want to work on world hunger and start some programs for children that have been abused and for kids that may have 2 working parents and can’t have some one at home with them when they get home from school I want after school programs. I want to make this a better place for kids to grow up. I know it may sound like a huge task but I know I can have a huge impact on how that comes to be” says J-Dia.

Like her life J-Dia’s music career is coming out the gate strong. She already has 3 deals on the table with major distributors and a hot single entitled “I Won’t Tell” featuring Styles P of D Block. She’s definitely an artist on the rise and one to look out for. Remember the name J-Dia (pronounced Dee-ya) the reigning Queen of Hip Pop.

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This article was originally published in Flossin Magazine #1. The original author of this article is Fawn Aberson. This article is edited by Edna Waters. This article is optimized for web by Steven Christian (Artist | Author | Podcaster).

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