A midwest born, northern California raised, Los Angeles transplant, JaVonté grew up with the best of musical influences: his mother’s love for Gospel music, and the years his father and family exposed him to soulful R&B and hip-hop classics.

When he is not touring the world and sharing the stage with Ms. Gladys Knight as a young “pip”, he is writing and recording his own signature tunes. His smooth yet piercing voice, and emotion evoking timber has allowed him to work alongside Snoop Lion as well as Kendrick Lamar, landing him a Grammy for his background contributions on the album To Pimp A Butterfly. JaVonté is also best known for his appearances on early Top Dawg Entertainment albums, not only alongside Kendrick Lamar (She Needs Me, Uncle Bobby & Jason Keaton, Opposites Attract), but also Ab-Soul (Still a Regular Nigga, Picture That, Empathy) and in-house producer Tae Beast (he appears on 5 songs from The Tae Beast Tape Two). Aside from the vocals, he has also written for the likes of TGT (Tank, Ginuwine, & Tyrese), Gladys Knight, and Syd of The Internet, to name a few. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.