We were lucky to catch up with Jesse Del Queens recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Jesse Del thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

My most meaningful project to date would have to be “London Bridge”, a single I produced for Kelly Ross. I took some personal time off work spring of 2018 to refocus my goals and to creative music. To spark creativity, I was listening to a few fugues by my favorite composer Bach. Fugues are my favorite style of music. Its’ complex and layered with a theme that repeats throughout the composition, eventually coupled with another melody, and that complexity builds and builds. Later that day I created a melody that sounded very interesting, and I began to build from it, originally playing it on the piano. When I switched to my music production software and played it with a deep bell/vibes/piano type vst, it triggered a visual of the vintage city of London. I began to daydream about the old London city streets, it’s old historic buildings and structures, churches with big steeples, the bridges. My arrangement soon build to a song, adding an intro, hook, a couple sections for verses and an outro. I played the track to my wife… at the time she hasn’t developed into the artist Kelly Ross. I took her out for lunch at Perry’s in Southlake to discuss my vision for the song. I can remember humming the melody and creating the hook right there at the table while eating a huge porkchop. This song embodies a message of the love trap. Falling in love. I mean really falling off a bridge, losing your footing just to remain connected to your lover. though all the disappointments, pain, resentments, the typical struggles of a toxic relationship. We both knew how to explain this concept because we were both experiencing it at that moment in time. The song got put on hold after we ended up separating and finalizing our divorce in 2020. Life happened and we fell back into it, hooked back up, got remarried in 2022 and released “London Bridge” December 23rd that same year.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Like I mentioned in the previous article, I became a rapper out of frustration. I struggled with connecting with local artist to collab with and pitch my music and beats to, so I became a rapper to in order to utilize my production skills. However, my number one passion is to produce and promote other artist. I plan to release my debut album winter 2023, but I spend so much time creating for other artist now. It seems becoming a rapper and producing for myself worked out in my favor. It at least brought exposure to my brand. Local artist began to recognize my work and link up. I now have two singles out on all streaming platforms, and another one releasing May 12 2023, Watch Me Fly – Remix featuring Cyfa. My birthday is May 10th so we gonna celebrate real big on May 12. I’ve also linked up with T-Rell, he’s being featured on my next single. Rachel Zebrosky and EL Aye pronounced LA are also my clients. They’re both local creatives in music looking to release their debut singles this year, and my label is producing their work. Cyfa is being featured on Watch Me Fly, but I have huge plans to continue that connection and work towards his upcoming album. Our relationship mirrors NAS and Hitboy. In my opinion, Cyfa is the most skillful rapper in our city, and I’m willing to invest in his craft. He also has a story that I feel the world should hear. Yes I rap, but producing and promoting other artists is my passion. My label provides the tracks, the recording sessions, mixing, mastering and marketing content of everyone we work with. And we drink and celebrate every single accomplishments as a team. We’re a Posse’, a group of creators summoned by passion, creating hit records (J Posse’ Media)

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

8 years ago things were very financially tight, losing my apartment and temporarily residing in a Suite in Lewisville. I didn’t possess much at all, very little saved up in my bank account. But I can recall feeling good about still owning my Yamaha Motif XS7 keyboard. At the time I had no desire to produce records or become an artist because so much was going on, I wasn’t inspired to, but I continued to create music, it was my escape from the madness. While crammed in that little space, I would sit on the end of the bed and create music while the kids watch cable TV, and I’d store my projects in the keyboards local memory. Well, things got even tighter financially and I had no choice but to sale it. I posted an ad on craigslist. I had it sold a few hours later that same day. The older guy who picked it up said this to me at the door “my son plays music and saw your keyboard ad and begged me to come buy it for him, he couldn’t believe you were selling it so cheap”. Even though it was tough letting it go, it was cool knowing I was helping another musician get further ahead. The reason I told this story is this. Before I posted the ad on Craigslist, I played two of my favorite tracks from local memory through some big over-ear headphones and cranked up the volume real loud, grabbed my Samsung Note 4 smartphone to capture the audio on an mp3 file, and emailed it to myself for safe keeping. Fast forward 8 years later, one of those tracks was pitched to Rachel Zebrosky. Rachel loved the track and wrote lyrics to it. It’s getting released this summer as her debut single, and I swear it has Adele like Grammy potential!!!

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Very good question! It seems non-creatives tend to judge how open we are. When I create social media content to build a story around my song or to capture a moment in time and elaborate on it creatively, I sometimes hear family and friends advise me to not share so much about myself. Creatives are very expressive. We express our feelings, our experiences, our lessons, we express who we are, and create art with it. We’re intelligent enough to not share all of our business, but whatever we share, it’s meant to creatively express what’s important to us. We have secrets, and we don’t share everything, but we do share whatever is necessary so our fans can have an opportunity to understand who we are and why we do what we do. Most viewers won’t understand that level of openness, because they aren’t creating anything to share, or let me say it in reverse, they aren’t sharing creatively. Anybody who loves to express themselves has the potential of becoming a great artist.   

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