![]() ![]() I was in college for about a year and a half to do the same thing my mom was doing, which was to be a public school music teacher. And you actually went to college and ended up dropping out because you got a publishing deal, right? I took lessons all the way up until I was 15 and then I started making my own music.”ĬS: That’s amazing. I was just doing Christian contemporary music but then I had snuck onto my brother’s iPod where I discovered Kanye and Drake and I really fell in love with that sort of music. So that was what got me introduced into music. So I switched over to drums and then guitar and by the age of seven I was playing every week in my church band. I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ I wanted to play the drums. They had me taking piano lessons from the age of three and then I got kind of got sick of it. My mom is obviously a music teacher, my dad’s a pastor. So can you tell me a little bit about JVKE before the millions of fans? Just a little bit about when you started making music and what led you to be so passionate about it? #fyp ♬ Rockstar Remix AYO MOMMA ON THE BEAT – JVKE □ĬS: She seems like an absolute blast. ![]() She’s amazing.” might just have the coolest mom ever. She hasn’t been back to school yet with quarantine and everything, so she’s been on Zoom meetings and the other day she told me in the middle of class, one of her students yelled because they realized who she was because she was talking about me and her student was like, ‘wait, you’re that person.'”ĬS: I could imagine that’d be cool for your mom regardless, but then to be doing all this with her son has to be a whole other level. All of her students know her from TikTok. J: “Oh, man, she loves it! She’s actually a music teacher for an elementary school. So what does your mom think about all this? We kind of hit the sweet spot and I just kept posting more stuff out with my mom and that got me started.”ĬS: That’s so cool. And then we started to morph the idea and it turned into this thing that started blowing up, which I didn’t expect. I ended up trying it out and It didn’t really do too well (laughs). I originally had this idea where I would make a beat with my mom on the spot. You can keep up with JVKE by giving him a follow on TikTok at and on Instagram at Secrets: I want to start by address the fact you joined TikTok this year and you already have over 3.9 million followers, 6 billion plays and 14 million videos created with your single “Upside Down.” I just want to know when you first started putting out content, did you have any iota of an idea that something like this what’s going to happen? You can read the full conversation below. Featuring the talented musician’s signature pulsing synthesizers and emo-pop melodies, the track is a must-add to your playlists that will instantly set the vibe for your Zoom holiday parties with friends and family.Ĭeleb Secrets sits down with JVKE to learn more about his musical journey, creating infectious beats with his mom, the viral success of his smash “Upside Down,” and what’s to come from him in 2021. Just in time for the holidays, JVKE dropped his own Christmas bop “Ho Ho Ho,” which you can listen to here. ![]() JVKE also does a lot of work behind-the-scenes, as he’s got a publishing deal that’s previously landed him cuts with global superstar Jason Derulo, South Korean-Chinese boy and EXO and K-POP pop group Super Junior. Now with almost 4 million followers on the platform, the 19-year-old’s original tune “Upside Down” is the 3rd most used sound on TikTok, #4 on Spotify’s US Viral and Global Viral charts, the soundtrack for TikTok’s global TV commercial, and has a remix with the one and only Charlie Puth. The beats were just so good, that creators like Charli D’Amelio and Loren Gray started making videos to them, and the rest is history. Taking to TikTok at the beginning of the lockdown, JVKE teamed up with his mom - an elementary school music teacher - to make original remixes from some of the platform’s most popular sounds. While the worst case scenario happened for most, the pretty much best came through for budding artist JVKE, as his world literally turned upside down in just a few short months. ![]()
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