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, Kendrick Lamar, JID, John Legend, CeeLo Green, Mayer Hawthorne,, Goodie Mob,, Ras Kass, B.o.B, R. Kelly, Pixie Lott, Christina Aguilera, Lupe Fiasco, T-Pain, Jazmine Sullivan, Jennifer Hudson, Melanie Fiona, Musiq Soulchild, K. Michelle, Keyshia Cole, Anthony Hamilton, Dirt Nasty, Estelle, Elijah Blake, Groove Armada, Zap Mama, Solange, Raheem DeVaughn, Natasha Bedingfield, Lemar, Kelis, Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Sia, Valerie June and many more.

Career

2003-2008: Plantlife

Before working as a music producer for other artists, Jack Splash produced and was the lead singer of an underground funk band from Los Angeles called Plantlife. In November of 2004, Plantlife released their debut album The Return of Jack Splash via several different independent record labels internationally. Noted UK BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson was one of the first early supporters of the band. The Return of Jack Splash was nominated and subsequently won Album Of The Year at Peterson's Worldwide Awards in 2004. The album was critically acclaimed internationally. HipHopDX gave the album a rating of 9.5/10 and declared "This is just incredibly funky funk from the soul". In 2008, Plantlife released their second album Time Traveller on Decon Records. The album was also critically acclaimed and Pitchfork rated the album a 7.9/10 with the headline of "Plantlife lead singer/producer Jack Splash draws from Prince, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Ohio Players, and Rick James on a well-crafted love letter to funk."

2008-2019: Producing and Awards

After touring internationally with Plantlife, Splash began producing for several of his musical heroes who he met while on the road. The first artist he met and produced outside of his own band was CeeLo Green. To date, Jack Splash has been nominated for eleven 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" 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. Also in 2011, Splash was again nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his work on R. Kelly's Untitled. In 2012 Splash received another Grammy nomination for Melanie Fiona's for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In 2013, the Jack Splash-produced song "Now or Never" 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 " as one of the "Best Tracks of 2015". The second side-group Splash formed in 2014 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, 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". 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, which was released on September 7, 2018 via Sony Music. The album debuted at #3 on Billboard Magazine's Emerging Artists Chart and #4 on Billboard Magazine's Alternative Albums Chart. The album Young Sick Camellia was also St. Paul & The Broken Bones' first album to make it to the top 10 on Billboard Magazine's Top Rock Albums Chart. The lead single off of the album is called "Apollo" and Rolling Stone called the song "Prince-worthy funk". The song "Apollo" spent 20 weeks in the Top 20 on Billboards Adult Alternative Songs Chart and peaked at #3 on November 3, 2018, which was the bands first Top 5 Billboard radio airplay ranking. St. Paul & The Broken Bones performed several Jack Splash-produced songs on both The Jimmy Kimmel Show as well as Late Night with Seth Meyers. 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. Splash produced several songs on Tank and the Bangas major label debut, including the lead single "Ants". The Tank and the Bangas Green Balloon album was released on May 3, 2019 via Verve Records/Universal Music Group and debuted at #3 on Billboard Magazine's Heatseakers Albums Chart. On November 20, 2019 Tank and the Bangas were nominated for Best New Artist for the 2020 Grammy Awards. Also in 2019, Jack Splash released another independent side project called KILL THE MOTHERBOARD with singer/songwriter Jon Brown from Milwaukee. The duo's first single "Waaaaay Gone" was premiered on Complex and their second single "The Water" featuring Eric Biddines was premiered on HipHopDX. Their debut album The Legend Of Picasso Jones was released via Empire Distribution on June 14, 2019. On August 2, 2019 another one of Jack Splash's side projects had an unreleased demo of their song "Keep You Alive" featured in the movie and the soundtrack for. The movie premiered at #1 at the box office and as of September 6, 2019 Hobbs & Shaw has earned over $700 Million worldwide. Brothers Voodoo have not yet announced an official release date for their debut album. In October of 2019 Jack Splash began working with Emmy and Tony Award Winning actress and singer/songwriter Cynthia Erivo on her debut album for Verve Records/Universal Music Group.

Discography

Jack Splash All Music credits,
Pixie Lott album credits,
K Michelle album credits,
Goodie Mob album credits,
Mayer Hawthorne album credits,
Kendrick Lamar album credits,
Keyshia Cole album credits,
Musiq Soulchild album credits,
Melanie Fiona album credits,
Cee-Lo album credits,
Alicia Keys album credits,
R.Kelly album credits,
Solange album credits,
Jazmine Sullivan album credits,
Jennifer Hudson album credits,
Sex and the City album credits,
Estelle album credits,