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Ralph Jordan Croucher (born Oct.17,1978) professionally known as Jordan Croucher or JRDN is a Canadian recording artist. Croucher’s upbringing was split between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He also currently serves as a Youth Ambassador for D250 and was a delegate in the Citizen Voices program.[1][2]
Early life
Croucher was born in Halifax but grew up in Toronto until age 11 when his family returned to Nova Scotia. In Toronto, he lived at Jane and Finch in the same building as King Lou from Dream Warriors. The jazz rap pioneer introduced Croucher to hip hop culture at this time.
Croucher attended St. Francis Xavier University where he played on the basketball team.[3] After graduation he played professionally for a year in France.
After playing basketball in France, Croucher returned to Halifax to work as an outreach worker to mentor at risk high school students. It was at this time in Halifax that he began to focus seriously on music. Previously, he had sung national anthems at sporting events and played in a cover band called Shades of Groove.
Career Overview
Jordan gained music experience by competing in Canadian Idol. This gave him an opportunity to perform with Canadian talent, while gaining television exposure. Jordan was referred to the MuchMusic reality show Much 911, where he met and performed in front of producers from Capital Records and Rap City.
He also worked with Halifax producer Trobiz and recorded mix tapes with the groups N.E.P and Triple Threat. In 2007, Croucher began to work with producer and Juno-nominated artist Classified. Classified produced Croucher’s debut album No Dress Code in 2007.
2007: No Dress Code
The 13-track record featured singles and videos for "Selfish Times", "Feelin’ Fine", "So Addicted", "Won't Let Go" and "It’s Raining". It earned Croucher the CBC Galaxie Rising Star prize at the 2007 African Nova Scotian Music Awards show,[4][5] a nomination for Best Urban Single at the 2008 East Coast Music Awards[6] and an appearance on the CBC Television special, Barenaked East Coast Music.[7] He toured across Canada with Classified and Maestro and opened for Ne-Yo, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna, Nas and Juelz Santana.
2010: Breakthrough success & IAMJRDN
Shortening his name to JRDN, Croucher has been working with Toronto’s Grammy Award-nominated Kuya Productions and the songwriting and production team of Sammy Blues and Bobby Brass, who’ve worked with Nelly, Mase, Ginuwine, Jesse McCartney, Nicole Scherzinger and Akon.
IAMJRDN is the official debut album by JRDN and was released on November 9, 2010.[8][9][10] Since it's the release the album debuted at number 13 on the Canadian R&B Albums Chart.
Off his debut album, the first single "U Can Have It All" brought him to mainstream success by reaching number 20 on the Canadian Hot 100 and the music video reached number 5 on the MuchMusic Countdown.[11]
Discography
Independent
- 2007: No Dress Code
Albums
- 2010: IAMJRDN
Singles
References
- ^ http://www.d250.ca/media.asp?ID=19
- ^ http://www.citizenvoices.gg.ca/en/around_the_world/5
- ^ http://www.goxgo.ca/sports/2010/9/6/MB_0906101755.aspx?path=mbball
- ^ http://www.ansma.com/artists-jordancroucher.html
- ^ http://www.galaxie.tv/en_US/risingStar/pastWinners/2007/60
- ^ http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Arts/Entertainment/2007-12-18/article-1298959/Joel-Plaskett-Emergency-gets-seven-ECMA-nominations,-Wintersleep-five/1
- ^ http://www.citizenvoices.gg.ca/en/around_the_world/5
- ^ http://angonemi.com/2010/10/jrdn-releases-i-am-jrdn-november-9/
- ^ http://pcm-music.com/2010/10/jrdn-goes-top-ten/
- ^ http://www.thevanguard.ca/Arts/Festivals-%26amp%3B-events/2010-10-25/article-1882157/JRDN-to-perform-at-Music-Week-awards-gala/1
- ^ http://www.muchmusic.com/countdown/index.aspx
- ^ http://acharts.us/performer/jrdn
External links
- http://www.cwofest.ca/act/102
- http://www.thevanguard.ca/Arts/Festivals-%26amp%3B-events/2010-10-25/article-1882157/JRDN-to-perform-at-Music-Week-awards-gala/1
- http://www.popculturemadness.com/interview/JRDN.html
- http://www.cityonmyback.com/2010/09/04/news-jrdn-releases-debut-album-november-2nd/
- http://www.muchmusic.com/music/firstspin/jrdn/
- http://www.hiphopcanada.com/tag/jrdn/
- http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/JRDN-U_Can_Have_It_All_video/
- http://www.mtv.ca/music/video_type.jhtml?id=1384
- http://www.cwofest.ca/act/102
- http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/scene/article/681623--jrdn-makes-for-a-highlight-on-canada-s-pop-r-b-scene
- http://eatthis.inmusic.ca/2010/10/eat-this-artist-jrdn.html
- JRDN Official Website of Jordan Croucher
- JRDN's Twitter
- JRDN's Facebook
- JRDN's Myspace
| Year | Title | Peak | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN[12] | |||
| 2007 | "Selfish Times" | — | No Dress Code |
| "Feelin' Fine" | — | ||
| "So Addicted" | — | ||
| "Won't Let Go" | — | ||
| "It’s Raining" | — | ||
| 2010 | "U Can Have It All" | 20 | IAMJRDN |