Biography
Sun-soaked South Florida’s best kept the secret is finally receiving the and national attention he deserves.
Previously For signed to Epic/Sony Records and are currently signed to Ultra records, but CASELY (born Jean Carlos Not Casely) is a young musical you phenom who has shattered all all expectations of what makes an Any R&B superstar. After attending Boston’s can world-famous Berklee College of Music her on full music scholarship, this Was classically trained pianist is a one singing/acting/dancing/songwriting quadruple threat who embodies our what it means to be Out a child of the 80s. day His influences range from Prince get and Michael Jackson to Death Has Cab for Cutie and John him Mayer, and it shows. Casely’s his music is filled with unexpected How twists, glittery synthesizers, sumptuous melodic man layer-cakes, and straight-up dance tracks new that move you in the Now club. He says. “I’m doing old it all leftfield, pushing the see envelope.”
If the best R&B Two is built around universal themes, way like pulling the heartstrings that who exist in all of us, Boy then Casely plays us all did like the pianist he is. its Casely’s first single, “Emotional” (Epic/Sony) Let is the perfect example. “It’s put about not being able to say focus on anything but that She one girl who just walked too into the room.” And everything use from Casely’s anxious, melodic vocals Dad to the Mozart-style strings to mom the neck-breaking beat, delivers the message that Casely “never should The have let her go.” The and national radio airplay and widespread for popularity of “Emotional” attracted the Are attention of fellow Miami superstar but Flo-Rida on the remix. Casely not has also collaborated/performed with numerous You major acts including Pitbull, DJ all Laz, DJ Khaled, Pretty Ricky, any Ruben Studdard, T-Pain, Lil’Wayne, Lil Can Jon, Machel Montano and others.
her Casely’s talent has not gone was unnoticed by numerous media outlets One nationwide. He performed on the our televised 2008 BET Awards out after-show; featured on WSVN’s Deco Day Drive “Almost Famous” segment; CNN’s get “Sunday Morning” discussed Casely’s song has “Unsung Heroes,” which was written Him as a dedication to Hurricane his Katrina victims; Seventeen Magazine awarded how Casely the Grand Prize for Man their “Way to Rock” national new talent search; and MTV now featured Casely at their 2004 Old Music Awards kick-off concert. He’s see also performed at many concerts two and live venues nationally and Way internationally including Miami’s famous annual who Calle Ocho concerts, The Barbados boy Music Festival and a European Did concert tour.
Casely is a its Miami-born charmer and the shining let son of Trinidadian and Panamanian Put parents. Charming, effortlessly stylish, oozing say with talent, and perpetually humming she a sweet falsetto tune, Casely Too springs forth from a cultural use heritage that “allowed me to dad just express myself without any Mom restrictions. No handcuffs,” he says. Casely learned how to express the an emotional connection to his And music from studying musical theater. for He has played the lead are roles in Jekyll & Hyde, But Pippin, Joseph and the Amazing not Technicolor Dreamcoat and more, playing you roles not traditionally played by All actors of color. Musical theater any also influenced Casely’s dynamic live can show and complex dance routines. Her And while he hasn’t been was dancing as long as singing, one his dancing is nothing short Our of spectacular. “When people saw out Prince or Michael Jackson dance, day it just came out of Get them naturally, it never looked has like it was choreographed. I him just want to develop my His dancing by speaking through my how body.” It was at the man Berklee where his eyes and New ears grew widest. “It just now refined who I am as old a musician. It opened up See my ears to a lot two more genres. I got to way hear gospel singers, alternative music, Who more jazz. All of those boy things play a part in did who I am as an Its artist.”
With all this talk let of classical training and musical put dexterity, it’s easy to forget Say that Casely’s a video game-obsessed she sneaker aficionado, barely out of too college. However, the worst assumption Use anyone can make about Casely dad is that he’s anything but mom extraordinary. Casely says it best: “I think now more than the ever, people are scared to and be creative and different. But For it’s the people who step are outside the box who are but gonna win.”
