Justin Jesso

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Justin Jesso
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Singer-songwriter Justin Jesso
Background information
Birth nameJustin Stein
OriginChicago, United States
Occupation(s)Singer – songwriter
Instrument(s)Voice, guitar, piano
Years active2016–present
Website https://justinjesso.com

Justin Jesso (born Justin Stein) is an American singer and songwriter. [1] He has written songs for Hrvy, AJ Mitchell, The Backstreet Boys and Armin van Buuren. He was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards for co-writing Ricky Martin's single "Vente Pa' Ca" (2016). [2] He is a co-writer and featured artist on Kygo's "Stargazing" (2017). [3]

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Early life

Jesso grew up in a northern suburb of Chicago. As a youngster he wrote his own songs and also performed on stage in various theatres across Chicago performing his breakout hit, "Lose Control." In later life, he studied songwriting at the Clive Davis Institute in New York. [4]

Career

Jesso has written for many artists, including HRVY, The Backstreet Boys and AJ Mitchell.

In 2016, he co-wrote the Ricky Martin song "Vente Pa' Ca" featuring Maluma, which was nominated for Best Song at the 2017 Latin Grammy Awards. It lost out to "Despacito". [5]

In 2017, Justin co-wrote "Stargazing" for Kygo with Stuart Crichton and Jamie Hartman. In 2018, he supported Kygo on his sold-out arena tour in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. [6] More recently, he co-wrote "The Way It Was" for The Backstreet Boy's latest album DNA. [7]

Jesso released an EP, Let It Be Me in December 2018. The lead single "Getting Closer" was written after he toured with Kygo, and was about the loneliness of life on tour. The video, which was directed by Kyle Cogan, shares real footage of Jusso's time spent on tour. [8] The song was popular in Europe, and was a top ten radio hit in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It also charted at 11 in the German iTunes chart. [9]

In February 2019, Jesso supported Tears for Fears on the European leg of their Rule The World tour. [10] Jesso embarked on his first headline tour in North America in April 2019, where we played to venues in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

In June 2019, he released the title track, "Let It Be Me", a duet with Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt. [11]

In March 2022, he was announced as the representative of Illinois for the inaugural American Song Contest, set to begin later in the month. [12] He competed in the fifth episode and did not qualify for the live semi-finals.

On Saturday, January 29th 2023, Justin sang the National Anthem at Gulfstream Park before the three Pegasus Stakes races.

Discography

Singles

TitleYear
"Lovin' You" (Glowinthedark ft. Justin Stein)2016
"Better" (Atomic ft. Justin Stein)2016
"Stargazing" (Kygo ft. Justin Jesso)2017
"My Body"2018
"Stitch Em Up" (Frank Walker ft. Justin Jesso)2019
"Getting Closer"2019
"Let It Be Me" (with Nina Nesbitt)2019
"As Far As Feelings Go" (Alle Farben ft. Justin Jesso)2019
"Bigger than" (Seeb ft. Justin Jesso)2019
"If you're meant to come back"2020
"Best of us" (as part of the artist project WIER)2020
"Too good to lose"2020
"They don't know me" (Papa Zeus ft. Justin Jesso)2021
"Spinnin'" (Lovra ft. Justin Jesso)2021
"Under" (Sebastian Fitzek ft. Justin Jesso)2021
"The End"2020
"Clarity"2022
"Come clean" (Adventure Club & Prince Fox ft. Justin Jesso)2022
"400 Trillion"2022
"Lifeline" (for American Song Contest)2022
"Lose ya"2022
"I'll be there" (Andrea Berg ft. Justin Jesso)2022
"Me without us" ( Matisse & Sadko, Raiden ft. Justin Jesso)2022
"Time Machine" (Petey Martin ft. Justin Jesso)2023
"Beautiful World" (Michael Bolton ft. Justin Jesso)2023
"Sound of Freedom" ( Sound of Freedom Soundtrack)2023

EPs

TitleYearTrack listing
Let It Be Me2019
  1. "Let It Be Me"
  2. "Getting Closer"
  3. "I Will"
  4. "My Body"
  5. "One Good Reason"
TitleYearTrack listing
Finding The Opposite Of Loneliness2022
  1. "Lose ya"
  2. "Clarity"
  3. "If you're meant to come back "
  4. "Lifeline"
  5. "Drink alone"
  6. "Bigger than"
  7. "Miracle"
  8. "400 Trillion"
  9. "The End"

Songwriting credits

TitleArtistYear
"Vente Pa' Ca" Ricky Martin ft. Maluma 2016
"Batman & Robin" Cazzi Opeia & Jin X Jin2017
"Critical Beauty" Pentagon 2017
"Frontiers" The Rampage from Exile Tribe 2017
"I Don't Think About You" HRVY 2017
"I Won't Remember You Tomorrow"Alli Simpson2017
"Say Hi"Codeko & Austin Mahone 2017
"Somebody Like You" In Real Life 2017
"Stargazing" Kygo ft. Justin Jesso2017
"Summer Something" Carlos Marco 2017
"Weigh Me Down" Matt Terry 2017
"Crazy 4 U " Taemin 2017
"What U Do?" Exo 2017
"Convince You"Dominique2018
"Getting Closer"Justin Jesso2018
"Got A Little Drunk" Madcon 2018
"I Don't Want You Back" AJ Mitchell 2018
"I Will"Justin Jesso2018
"My Body"Justin Jesso2018
"One Good Reason"Justin Jesso2018
"Let It Be Me"Justin Jesso & Nina Nesbitt 2019
"Phone Down" Armin van Buuren & Garibay2019
"Stitch Em Up"Frank Walker ft. Justin Jesso2019
"The Way It Was" Backstreet Boys 2019
"Cause It's You" Red Velvet 2022

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