Member Since: 11/16/2006
Influences: God, for giving him talent and ideas and his family, especially his Dad's love of music and his record collection.
BlackJack is influenced by many styles of music including Funk, Soul, ALL types of Jazz, Proper RnB, Blues, Old skool Hip Hop, Jungle, Old skool DnB, UK Garage, Funky House and anything with a phat melody and good beat!
BlackJack grew up mainly listening to real, classic artists such as, Michael Jackson, James Brown, George Benson, Stevie wonder, Earth,wind & fire, Santana, Quincy jones, Ray Charles, Spyro Gira, Chick corea, and jazz musicians, Herbie hancock, Dave Brubeck and Joe pass. In the past, when using the program Music 2000, BlackJack was very limited with sounds and instruments he could use, so began sampling to create songs. Now when making his music he aspires to create something that draws upon all his influences but without sampling. His main goal is to make each one stronger than the last.
Sounds Like: You can hear elements of certain artists that BlackJack is influenced by, but he always tries to make his music sound unique.
Record Label: Slapped up soul
Type of Label: Indie