Jerald Daemyon

Who is Jerald Daemyon?

Jerald Daemyon is an American electric violinist born in Detroit, Michigan. Daemyon is known for bringing technical refinement to violin improvisation with a technical artistry fused with improvisatory expressions reminiscent of famed concert violinists Ole Bull, Pablo de Sarasate and Henryk Wieniawski. With a broad tone and ostentatious technique he plays the electric violin with a bold masculine bravado and exquisite gracefulness that is sympathetic to the articulate nature of the violin. Daemyon rose to fame in 1995 with his debut album, Thinking About You.

The big-sounding Thinking About You was released independently on Jerald’s own label Jazzestra Records, before making its way around the urban radio market in the United States and world, where his urban-contemporary R&B sound was an instant airplay request and commercial sales success under the GRP/Universal Records label achieving national recognition as a chart topping smash on Billboard’s Magazine’s Urban and Contemporary Jazz Charts earning Best Contemporary Jazz Album, 1997.

A cut from that album, Summer Madness, a remake of the Kool and the Gang classic, received extensive radio airplay in 1997.