Jack Splash

Jack Splash

Jack Splash is an American recording artist, musician, songwriter, and record producer from the Los Angeles, California area. Splash's works include writing and production on singles for artists such as Alicia Keys ("Teenage Love Affair"), ("Wreckless Love"), ("Savior"), Kendrick Lamar ("Now or Never"), John Legend ("P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care)"), CeeLo Green ("Fool for You"), ("I Want You"), Mayer Hawthorne, ("The Innocent"), ("The Only One"), ("Kaila"), Goodie Mob, ("Valleujah"), B.o.B, R. Kelly ("Be My#2"), Pixie Lott ("Nasty"), Christina Aguilera, Lupe Fiasco, T-Pain, Jazmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson, Melanie Fiona ("Wrong Side of A Love Song"), Musiq Soulchild, K. Michelle, Keyshia Cole ("I Choose You"), Anthony Hamilton, Dirt Nasty, Estelle ("Pretty Please (Love Me)"), Elijah Blake ("Towers of Tokyo") Groove Armada, Zap Mama, Solange ("T.O.N.Y."), Raheem DeVaughn, Natasha Bedingfield, Lemar, Kelis, Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, and Sia. To date, Jack Splash has been nominated for ten Grammy's and has won three. In 2008 Splash won a Grammy for Best R&B Album for Jennifer Hudson's album Jennifer Hudson. That same year, the Jack Splash-produced song "I'm His Only Woman" (performed by Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia) was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group. In 2009, Splash was nominated for Best R&B Album for Jazmine Sullivan's Fearless. In 2010, Splash was again nominated for Best R&B Album for Anthony Hamilton's The Point of It All. In 2011, Splash’s production for CeeLo Green, "Fool for You", featuring Melanie Fiona reached #1 on the Billboard charts and won two Grammy Award's for Best R&B song and for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In 2012 Splash received another Grammy nomination for Melanie Fiona's ("Wrong Side of a Love Song") for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In 2013, the Jack Splash-produced song "Now or Never" (written by Kendrick Lamar, Jack Splash and Jazmine Sullivan and performed by Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige) was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Also in 2013, Splash was nominated for two additional Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album for Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City. In 2014 Splash took a small hiatus from producing for major label artists to focus on two of his side-projects. The first group he formed with R&B singer Bobby Caldwell is called COOL UNCLE. In 2015 COOL UNCLE released their debut album to critical acclaim. Rolling Stone called the album "2015's Smartest Retro-Soul Revival" and Pitchfork selected the Cool Uncle song "Break Away (featuring Jessie Ware)" as one of the "Best Tracks of 2015". The second side-group Splash formed in 2014 (with Los Angeles hip hop musician Ras Kass) is called Semi Hendrix. The duo released their debut album Breakfast At Banksy's in 2015 on Mello Music Group. The Semi Hendrix album featured guest appearances from CeeLo Green, Kurupt, Teedra Moses, Ras Austin, Taj Austin, Alice Russell (singer), Wrekonize and more. The title track, "Breakfast At Banksy's", features a video directed by Jay Brown & animated by Ruffmercy, and in 2016 the song was used to launch a Samsung Galaxy S7 television campaign. In 2017 Splash resumed producing for other artists and released an album with Atlantic Records artist Lauriana Mae titled "Can't Go Back" (featuring Dreezy, Raekwon from Wu-Tang Clan, Manolo Rose and more). Also in 2017, after seeing them perform on both the David Letterman show and NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, Splash began working with the St. Paul and The Broken Bones from Alabama and produced the entirety of their album (Young Sick Camellia), was released on September 7, 2018 via Sony Music. The lead single off of the album is called "Apollo" and Rolling Stone called the song "Prince-worthy funk". In 2018, again after seeing an NPR Tiny Desk performance, Splash began working with the New Orlean's band Tank and the Bangas. The band won NPR's 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, and their debut major label album is expected to be released in January 2019. Splash is also the frontman of the band PlantLife, which has released three LPs since 2003.

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