Jason Knight has been performing since the age of ten. Jasons first show was in a live audience was at the age of fifteen. Jason snuck into a club and got on the Mic rapping in front of half drunk people and making the club go crazy. Jason soon realizes that he stumbled on to something that he really like and that was performing in front of a large crowd.Jason was inspired by several of artist as Jason matured and growing up in music. By learning to open his mind to other styles of music. Jason started listening to jazz, R&B, blues, reggae, big band, hip-hop etc. Several of Jason inspirational artists are the blues band Muddy Waters, B.B. King and later to Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff. Jason soon got more into Rap/Hip-hop and R&B listening to Erick B and Rakim, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest etcJason later on join the military in 1995 as a Tanker met and proposed to Theresa Blackie now his wife. They gave birth to two beautiful girls name Madelynn and Rebecca Knight in Seattle WA and recent newborn son Jason Jr. in Colorado Springs. Jason and family got transferred to Heidelberg Germany were Jasons music career took off. During the first few years in overseas Jasons played Blues Harmonica in Germany. Jason felt he was good and he began doing shows performing Blues Harmonica with Hip-hop and Trance mixing in reggaes type freestyle skills. The crowds went wild and at that point Jason stumbled onto something that he felt that one-day he thought would lead him to bigger things and that is a MC playing a live instrument with a DJ, Jason started getting more shows and bigger clubs all over Germany every weekend and eventually through the week.During Jasons tour in Germany and the US Jason has met and perform with DJ Chilly E (Hip-hop BIG FM Germany), DJ KOOL (Known for hit song: let me clear my throat NYC Hip-hop), DJ S-tatic (Hip-hop Germany), DJ Gold finger (House/Deep house Germany), Sean Finn (Vocal house UK/Germany) Gene Douglas (Deep House Almost Heaven Records France/Germany) DJ Falk (Trance Dance Radio Sunshine-live Germany) DJ F.L.O (Hip-hop Radio Sunshine-live Germany) Mr. C (Hot 97 NYC) Rene G (Trance/ Dance 98.9 Magic San Antonio TX) DJ Xclusive (Hip-hop Colorado springs) DJ B. Killa (Hip-hop Germany) DJ Harry D. (Hip-hip Breaks-Records Germany) DJ Tony Touch (Hot 97 NYC Hip-hop) Jesse Malik (Hip-hop MC Def Jams Germany) DJ I Roc IT (Hip-hop Youniversal Jamz Holly Wood CA) DJ Shoot (House/Trance Germany), DJ Swiks (Hip-hop Tommy Boy Records London) DJ Istanbul (Hip-hop South Pole Clothing Germany) Performing group The Out Lawz (2PAC family Holly Wood CA) Jeffrey L King (Bounce magazine Hip-hop German/France/Canada) BIG CAP( From Funk Mater Flex Crew NYC) DJ Maabee (Hip-hop White Label Records Germany) MC Torch (Hip-hop Germany) DJ Tommic (Hip-hop Berlin Germany) and DJ Charms (Hard House/UK Trance Rave Promoter San Antonio TX). To this day Jason Knight is still known for his great showmanship, Deejaying skills.
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Member Since: 2/12/2006
Band Website: jasonknight.net
Band Members: JSMURK, Blue L., M3NDNASE
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Record Label: Jason Knight Records & R.U.M ON DA STREETZ
Type of Label: Indie