Jayme Dee a rising musician, has not been in the music scene for very long, but before long she will be on every hit radio station.
Jayme Dee has always had music as a large part of her life; her mother was a vocal coach while her father was a pastor at a local church, so every sunday she had an audience to perform for.
During the years as she sang in front of her church, she was also learning to play classical piano; this all happened by middle school. By Dee’s freshman year in high school she found a guitar in her parents’ garage.
“I found a guitar, and I started dabbling,” she says. “I never looked back.”
That was when she started writing songs and making music; she started considering her guitar her best friend.
After discovering her love for guitar, Dee began covering songs by famous artists such as Lady GaGa, Deathcab For Cutie, and Katy Perry then posting the videos on YouTube.She often says that her musical influences are Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, and Aretha Franklin.
Soon, she found people enjoyed her music so, she started writing her own songs and posting them on youtube as well. Her youtube channel currently has approximately 13 million views and one hundred thousand subscribers.
During this period of internet recognition she also enrolled and studied at USC; her predicted major was vocal performance.
“I decided it wasn’t for me because I wanted to be immersed in the music industry and not reading books about it,” she goes on. “I kept writing music though.”
Not long after she dropped out of college her song “Love Whiplash” hooked the ears of Universal Republic Records.
Soon after they discovered Dee, she soon found herself signed onto their label in early 2011. This set her music career into flight mode, and will surely launch her into stardom.
She had originally came up with the idea for her song “Love Whiplash,” a song about an ex boyfriend, while driving to church.
“I actually recorded it with the janky voice memo recorder on my iPhone,” Dee laughs. “All of my ideas come to me when I’m driving in the car. I’m going to crash one day trying to press record.”
Now, Dee is recording in studios, writing new songs, and creating albums; all while capturing the attention of Hollywood.
Dee’s unique voice has steadily started rippling across the U.S., and her song “Rules” even made it in the soundtrack that topped the charts for quiet a while; The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond.
The song “Rules” is about someone she was involved with feeling how someone else wanted them to feel, and how they played things too safe and didn’t act like they knew what life really was. The song has a very catchy rhythm, and the chorus is quite easy to remember, as well as the rest of the song.
“This is me,” she concludes. “My music is definitely autobiographical. I write about things a 20-year-old girl will go through. I hope it’s empowering, and I hope it’s upbeat. At the same time, I hope people have fun when they listen to it. Is that too corny or too much to ask?”
This rising star has many good things going for her as she reaches to become a music star, and I believe many others will enjoy her music as she hopes people will.
