J.Catalyst

In the world of a new label addendum, the voice of Independent artist is growing more powerful by the day. New up and coming artist J. Catalyst is in the forefront of this new age music industry. A true southern native born and raised in the hometown of UGK, Port Arthur, Texas until the age of thirteen. From that point on, he then began to develop his roots in Dallas, Texas. J. Catalyst officially began pursuing a music career right after high school in 2003. He had a vision of bringing universalism to hip-hop; the belief was fusing different genres of art together to bring about a bigger picture. Hence the definition of the word: Catalyst: -noun: Something or someone that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected. This artist has broken ground with genres ranging from Hip-hop, Alternative Rock, Spoken word, Raggaetone, and R&B. A true lyricist at heart, he even writes songs for other local artist. He first started out going to various open mic nights in the Dallas- Fort Worth Metroplex, gaining respect in both Hip-hop and spoken word worlds. He went on to doing various shows in the metroplex, including performing at the Dallas House of Blues, Modeling for the 97.9 The Beat car show and performing in Austin’s Famous South by Southwest “SXSW”. Not only is he doing his thing solo dolo, J. Catalyst is in partnership with a local Dallas band, Broken Hourglass. An alternative, Hip-hop fusion band, that has started to build a buzz, by landing their single “Forever’s End” on a compilation CD that traveled with the Van’s Warped tour, in the summer of 2010. J. Catalyst prides himself on being an artist that is not afraid to step out of the traditional realm of hip-hop. He believes that Hip-hop is evolving, and with that in mind he has every intention to living up to the name Catalyst! He is an artist, he is a lyricist, he is J. Catalyst! up and coming hip-hop artist J.CATALYST. To the un-noticing eye, this artist appears as an DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH with a F.R.E.S.H NEW SOUND!