I mean we came up with the song Runway just sitting in Mickís place, listening to beats while Americaís Next Top Model just happened to be on in the background.î Jeremih insists that the two of them working together on this album, creating beats and lyrics in tandem, was like shuffling a deck of cards where ìeverything just fit perfectly together.î ìThis album was born from what the beat's told me. Jeremih admits that working with Mick Schultz has brought out a side of his talent that he did not know he possessed. You give him a track and heíll run with it.î After listening to the album, it is impossible to deny that Jeremihís musical arsenal is complete. ìHe can rap whatever you want and sing whatever you want. ÌHe doesnít have just one sound,î insists Mick Schultz, Jeremihís producer and collaborator. This combination has all the earmarks of a smash, with something to please every listener, and is destined to race to the top of the charts. In their short time working together, these two amazing talents have completed Jeremihís yet untitled debut album, which is an explosive blend of urban/pop beats set to the soulful, crooning lyrics of Jeremih. He returned to Chicago to enroll in a music business degree program at Columbia College, where a chance meeting with a young producer would set his dream in motion and his sound in stone. So strong was this new found performer in Jeremih, that he decided to ditch the ìsafeî career path in engineering science he had been carving out in favor of something more true to his passion.
Once I started playing the keys and singing, it was like a dynamic duo.î I just decided to put a melody to it and I had my sound. I have always been into writing poetry with witty rhyme schemes. ÌI guess you could say I am more of a rapper turned singer. From that defining moment, Jeremih knew he had found his home on stage. Being that his music has had such a strong influence on me, I knew I had to kill it, sort of as a tribute to Stevie.î Jeremih poured his heart and soul into that performance and the response of the crowd was so strong, it awakened a desire in him that he had not previously been aware of. ÌI was set to perform in a talent show where I had to be Stevie Wonder. All that would change by happenstance once he got to college. But he was yet to add his astonishing vocal ability to the mix.
Within no time I had all the essentials of a band.îīasically self taught, by the time he reached high school, Jeremih could play the sax, the drums, the piano, the bass guitar and the quads. Mom worked hard to make sure I had all the tools available to develop a talent she saw in me even then. ÌI wouldnít say I was forced into music, but while other kids were getting video games and toys for Christmas, I was given musical instruments. Raised on the South side of Chicago by two generations of musical talent in his mother and grandmother, singing was not just a hobby, nor was it a choice it was a way of life. With old school soul classics providing the soundtrack for his childhood, you could say that Jeremih Felton was born into music.