His real name is Jean Robert Pluviose, J-Beatz was born in Arcahaie and grew up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He emigrates to the United States at the age of fourteen. It was during his high school years at “Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School” that he saw the music for the first time, where the orchestra of his school would take him to discover the piano and music. percussion.
He has represented his institution in many musical competitions, including Florida International University North Campus, District, and University Central Florida (UCF), Florida State, winning no less than two medals as Best Pianist. classic.
Born of a Christian father and mother, the young artist played several instruments (drums-guitar-bass-piano) in the orchestra of his church, to showcase himself as a multi-dimensional talented musician.
His good musical knowledge led him to create in 1999 an evangelical group “Souffle Spirituel”, with the support of other young people from his spiritual background. An initiative that unfortunately did not last long. However, the production of a single album under the Fond-Rose Productions label had had some success in the evangelical sector.
Born under the sign of the Virgin, J Beatz had always dreamed of becoming a sound engineer. His meeting with a ‘foreign technician’ evolving in the world of Rock N ‘Roll was necessary for the realization of his dream. Thanks to the help of this man far from being selfish who had not refused his presence at his side as an assistant, to teach him the good notions of sound, today he is able to combine musical practice and mastery high technology to ensure a good quality recording of the albums he worked on behalf of other brothers musicians. J Beatz has a solid foundation in acoustics, electricity, electronics and computer science.
If his father had not opposed his desire to make evangelical music, it is still that the latter did not see a good eye son son venture into the compass. Indeed, even today, the father of the young artist was still reluctant.
Whatever his encounters, this plural musician always tries to showcase his talents.
I was already very popular in the hip hop and R’n’B circles for working on the sequences of many American artists for the label Vagabond Record, when the first musicians of the world compass came to me for to support them in their projects, “said the one who will become in a record time a composer, producer and sound engineer highly appreciated and respected in the Haitian environment.
“This is a small project made for Kenny Desmangles, then singer of the late formation 509, which allowed me to take my first steps in the compass,” recalls J-Beatz.
While he accompanied the pianist ‘Ti Lunette’ for whom I was already working on a single in my studio; after listening to some of the pieces I was working on for other artists as well, Kenny asked me if I could give him a boost on one of his songs that he was tweaking. What I had accepted willingly. Satisfied with the work I did in such a short time, the song in question “All I Need Is You” was going to be engraved on the band’s second album, released in 2003. Kenny then introduced me to the singer Alan Cavé Zin, and the latter had made the journey of the Big Apple to come and see me to give him a “boost” with his solo album titled “From Head to Feet”. I helped him in this title as well in two others, including “Can not do this to me”. Alan later advised his cousin Richard Cavé to contact me for a collaboration on the latest album of his band Carimi. So I produced for them the title “Carry Me”, a perfect duet between Michael Guirand and the singer zouk Princess Lovers, title figured on their last album released in 2010 …. He explained in detail.
