“Though I am classically trained, my intent is take the violin into a Renaissance phase, a rebirth period where I incorporate a little of everything, sort of like a pot of gumbo where everything smells good mixed in,” says Daemyon, who has played professionally since age 13. “I’m trying to lead a movement towards change in music, as well as how the violin is perceived in music today…My mix of R&B and Jazz with Hip-Hop and funky rhythms incorporates music of the mind, body, soul and people. It’s about making people feel new things. I try to keep things fresh and hip, develop my own style and set new trends by using different genres of the musical vocabulary, while also making my own concepts work.” “SUMMER MADNESS”, whose widespread urban radio airplay success throughout the U.S. and Chicago area helped bring Daemyon to GRP Records President, Tommy LiPuma and Universal Records attention, is a fresh, hip and funky, take on Kool & The Gang’s early Seventies, feel good smash. Once again, his frenzied violin winds darkness through light tenderness, shifting dynamics while dancing above the rolling synth sounds captures the vibe.

Jerald began studying the violin in the fourth grade in Detroit Public Schools, and was soon spending his weekends in a program at Wayne State University. At thirteen, he started his professional career in a be-bop setting with Detroit Saxophonist, Donald Walden and the Detroit Jazz Orchestra, and later formed his own band. While listening to everything from the R&B of Prince and Patti Labelle to Duke Ellington, Daemyon complemented his formal training studying with Dr. Morris Hochberg, of Michigan, Former principal violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra and assistant concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He also studied under Peter Michalicia, renowned Czechoslovakian Concert Violin Soloist. He took Master Classes with the internationally renowned Concert Violinist Isaac Stern and attended the famed International Music Camp at Interlochen School of Performing Arts. And he has also studied Jazz Studies and Music Performance at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Jerald has appeared with Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Bernie Mac, Brian McKnight, legendary jazz vocalist Joe Williams, Roy Ayers, Nancy Wilson, Vesta Williams, Ronny Laws, Jon B, Dee-Dee Sharp, The United States Air Force Symphony Orchestra and various other symphony orchestra across the country and has been a guest performer several times on the nationally syndicated radio program “The Tom Joyner Morning Show”.