Jesse Rice is a singer-songwriter and producer in Nashville, TN. Originally from low-country South Carolina, Rice moved to Nashville in 2002, where he began working for EMI Music Publishing. Since 2007, Rice has been a staff songwriter at Artist Revolution Publishing. At the beginning of 2011, Rice released a record of a collection of his songs that he has written the past couple years: "Somethin' Strong", which is available on iTunes. He also released a song to iTunes called "Damn Good Day (To Be A Clemson Tiger), which will be used this fall by Clemson University for football. He has worked closely with Chase Rice and the Florida-Georgia Line, producing Chase's debut EP "Country As Me", as well as co-writing all the songs on that record, including the first single "Buzz Back". He also wrote a song on Florida-Georgia Line's debut EP entitled "When I Never Let Her Go", and has the new hit single - "Cruise"- that is hitting radio now from FGL's new record "It'z Just What We Do"... In addition to writing songs for a living, Rice also tours around the South playing shows, promoting his new act that is his passion- THE PIRATE SESSIONS.
Jesse just completed a project two years in the making "The Pirate Sessions", which is a collection of island and beach and pirate songs that really speak to his heart. Jesse says "In my heart I really believe that that's who I am as an artist and where I'm most at home...". This collection of 16 songs, from last years Pirate Sessions, and this years Pirate Sessions II, was released in May, and debuted in the Top 30 on the iTunes Country Charts. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.