K'JON

The turning point came for K'Jon while writing music in a Los Angeles hotel room. After years of putting out independent releases while working a day job to support his family in Detroit, he had to figure out his future in the music industry.

"I was missing my family something terrible," says K'Jon. "I was sitting in that room, wondering if writing songs was worth being away from my daughter. I was really going through it."

Singing from the age of eight, K'Jon had been dabbling in the business for years. What started out as a hobby was beginning to morph into a career. In 2004, he had the honor of having his song, "Miami," featured on the soundtrack for 2Fast 2Furious. He opened for everyone from Ludacris and Ne-Yo to Raheem DeVaughn. He released a few independent albums that became popular in his hometown. Things were coming together.

"But it was happening slowly," K'Jon explains. "I'd accomplished quite a bit. But it still felt like my moment hadn't come. I saw a lot of folks around me really take off. I was trying to figure out when it would be my time."

K'Jon began pouring out his feelings into a song. Working so hard in the music business felt like being in a raft in the middle of the ocean. Would his ship finally come in? That idea became the song "On The Ocean." And as soon as he finished writing and then recording a demo version of the song, he knew he had something special.

"I knew I could sell that song to an established artist," says K'Jon. "But a friend told me that if I sold that song—I'd regret it for the rest of my career."

"On The Ocean" is now on its way to becoming a classic. And the warm reception he received from the song convinced K'Jon that his destiny was to entertain as a singer-songwriter.

After a decade of working hard, his ship has come in. And it's his time.

Detroit's K'Jon introduces his full-length major label debut, I GET AROUND, a superb collection with nods to both his contemporaries, including Kem and Robin Thicke, and his predecessors, like fellow Detroiter Marvin Gaye.

K'Jon knows how to set a scene. His album unfolds like a film, following the trials and tribulations of a young man who is determined to live and love fully and completely.