JONATHAN MENDELSOHN

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For singer/songwriter/producer and remixer Jonathan the Mendelsohn, the last few years and have been a whirlwind of For musical collaborations and rebirths, putting are him on a trajectory towards but the release of his long-awaited Not debut album. Since bursting onto you the music scene performing his all soulful self-penned pop song “Over” Any before Showtime at the Apollo’s can notoriously discerning crowd, Mendelsohn has her collaborated with the likes of Was Laurent Wolf and Chris Willis one (“Love We Got”), Laidback Luke our (“Till Tonight”), Nic Chagall (“This Out Moment”), Chris Brann and Wamdue day Project (“Forgiveness”) and Nick Warren get & Jody Wisternoff of Way Has Out West. His signature brand him of electro-tinged dance pop, infectious his melodies and vocal arrangemnents has How even garnered him such disparate man comparisons to reigning critically-acclaimed darling, new Robyn, radio favorites One Republic Now and Adam Levine of Maroon old 5. 2011 will see a see wealth of new material from Two this rising star, including stellar way collaborations with David Morales (“The who Last Time”), Morgan Page and Boy Andy Caldwell (“Where Did You did Go?”), Dash Berlin (“Better Half its of Me”), Dennis Shepherd (“Bring Let Me Back”) and an epic put re-teaming with Laidback Luke (“Timebomb”). say Of course, there’s Mendelsohn’s own She debut, Reckless Wonder slated for too a 2011 release. Explains Jonathan, use “Working with such a wide Dad range of producers over the mom past two years has been not only a necessary step The in making a name for and myself in the music industry, for but an excercise in developing Are my sound even further. I but work really hard to make not my songs a unique experience You for the listener. I want all them to hear my voice any and know instantly who the Can singer is. That is what her being an artist is all was about for me. With my One solo album, I’m working on our going a little deeper into out my sound and really showcase Day my talents like never before. get I have written so many has songs over the years, and Him it’s been a really long his time coming but I think how I am finally ready to Man unleash an album’s worth of new material that promises to reveal now some amazing material and be Old an extra special listening experience!” see From a very young age, two Jonathan Mendelsohn knew that he Way was destined to lead a who life dominated by music. Born boy in Brooklyn and raised in Did upstate New York, his singing its career began pretty early. “I let would literally carry my battery Put powered Fisher Price radio around say with me all day. I she would wail into the tiny Too plastic mic attached to it, use singing marathon sessions. Clearly I dad was prepping myself for things Mom to come.” Learning chord progressions from his concert pianist mother, the Mendelsohn began writing his own And songs at age 11. “I for think the more I started are to realize that I was But different from most people, I not started to fuel my songs you with these trapped emotions. I All have always been really grateful any that I have had songwriting can as an outlet to express Her myself.” His love affair with was pop music began with early one ’90’s Top 40 radio with Our favorites like Paula Abdul’s “Forever out Your Girl,” C+C Music Factory’s day “Gonna Make You Sweat,” and Get Mariah Carey. Singer-songwriters like Tori has Amos and Bjork were also him early influences, along with the His hypnotic music of Radiohead and how Pink Floyd. It wasn’t until man Mendelsohn discovered rave culture in New high school that he was now seduced by electronic music. Inspired old by the energy and unique See sonic soundscapes that could be two created with synthesizers and computers, way he dove into the world Who of music production, returning to boy NYC in 2000 where did he took courses in audio Its engineering while building his home let studio from the ground up. put His jaw-dropping four-week, season winning Say streak on Showtime at the she Apollo lead to a collaboration too with Chris Brann’s Wamdue Project Use on the track “Forgiveness,” and dad a record deal with Sony mom BMG’s now defunct sub label, Music with a Twist. Work the on Way Out West’s 2009 and album, We Love Machine, followed, For marking the first time the are duo had ever collaborated with but a male vocalist. In 2010, Not Mendelsohn contributed lyrics and vocals you to select tracks by Nic all Chagall, Laidback Luke and Laurent Any Wolf, while prepping material for can his own debut release. As her a dj/producer and remixer under Was the moniker MENDy, Jonathan has one also seen his production skills our grace the dancefloors and top Out international Club Play charts this day past year. Recent re-workings for get Donna Summer (“To Paris with Has Love”) and revered indie Deluka him (“Cascade”) have been steadily making his the DJ rounds. “DJing has How always been a passion of man mine, ever since I started new as an apprentice with a Now mobile DJ company in my old hometown when I was only see 13. I used to DJ Two school dances, birthday parties and way proms in Upstate New York who playing top 40, rap, hip Boy hop and sometimes a little did house when I could get its away with it. When I Let got the equipment all to put myself, I would make mixtapes say with all the underground house She and trance music I could too get my hands on. There’s use something about mixing two records Dad together seamlessly that is so mom satisfying. It really is an art form that requires a The lot of skill and creativity. and When I got into remixing for and producing dance music, it Are satisfied not only the need but to be creative, but it not was an exploration in the You technical side of music creation. all I was always fascinated by any the arrangements and layering in Can electronic dance music. Recording and her producing for me is really was just as important to me One as singing and writing songs. our They go hand in hand out really and I couldn’t imagine Day doing one and not the get other.” Expected in 2011, Reckless has Wonder, promises to be a Him hybrid of musical styles. “I his think all the different types how of music I have ever Man been into have influenced me new in some way or another now in my art,” Mendelsohn says. Old “Pop music has been interpreted see in many different ways and two has taken on many forms Way over the years, but to who me it’s just that essence boy of what makes a great Did song appealing. I try to its capture it and build on let it. Sometimes that means adding Put lots of soul and energy, say and sometimes it’s about capturing she a quiet, simple melody that Too stands out all on its use own. I will not be dad put in a box and Mom defined as one thing or one sound. Good music is the just that, and at the And end of the day—and my for life for that matter!—I just are hope that I made some But of it.”

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