Our Story
Hi, my official name is Joseph Elie Jean Phillippe (alias Ely Jean), I' am a creative writer, spiritualist and musician, born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I migrated from Haiti to the United States as a child and have lived there since. However, I do retain a strong connection with my native culture and heritage, which is quite tangible in my fluency in French, Creole and Kompa music. Since I was born and reared in a very tightly conservative family of parents with rigid socioeconomic beliefs and customs, music was not necessarily a primary factor or an object of pursuit. Don’t get me wrong, my mother and father love music, but not sufficiently passionate about it to encourage my musical incline, which I started to manifest at an early age. Consequently, due to lack of support and encouragement, most of my early musical endeavors were ignored. However, despite many set backs and disappointments, I started piano lesson on my 13th birthday, wrote and produced my first track at 16, and began working full-time as a recording and sound engineer at La Rive Gauche Studio & Entertainment when I was 18 years old.
As an art, I’m passionate about music just for what it is, and not for what I may derive by doing it. Simply put, I love music because it gives me joy, and that feeling alone is sustaining and rewarding in and of itself irrespective of any material gains. Naturally, as a spiritual thinker and writer, most of my musical inspirations originate from a profound engagement and betrothal with the “Greater I’AM”—the real conscious self. I take pleasure in knowing that what I endeavor to do may serve a higher and more meaningful purpose than just acquiring the gross necessities to sustain this transient illusory physical life. In other words, I’m a conscious musician who is committed to play for the awakening and betterment of society. This is not just my perception, but a perfectly verifiable fact if one truly listens to the lyrics of my songs. Beside the originality of my rhythms, their accompanied lyrics are also of a unique class.
Personally, since the prime concern in sharing my music with the world is to promote a message of higher ideals, I do not believe in competition as such. Although taken as a business, competition makes perfect sense in music to generate buzz and sell records, but I believe in the conscious lane this clever tactic, abused by the industry, rather erodes and overshadows the real meanings of the messages of many phenomenal conscious artists.
In addition, I regard all musicians, irrespective of nationality or culture, as a single family of creative souls, each expressing the uniqueness of their personalities and faculties, I see competition as a futile and irrelevant mean to raise awareness of this spiritual reality, which if understood can be a source of tremendous blessing for society.
With these basic principles and attitudes in mind, we aim to remain different and maintain the originality of all of our artistic endeavors. Though this particular Album, "From Mind to Heart", being a "pet project" I wanted to do as an adaptation of "English on Haitian Kompa", is entirely on that rhythm, I' am essentially a versatile musician who is opened to a variety of musical genres; such as Pop, R&B, Reggae, Classical & meditative and world music. Thus, I’ll be releasing several tracks of different styles and rhythms in the near future. I’m currently working on a potpourri project, which is a compilation of several rhythms and languages such as Classical, R&B and Reggae. It is due to be released around the end of the year.
We hope you stay in touch with us by visiting this site as often as you can. Also, we strongly encourage you to sign up for our mailing list to receive our monthly newsletters due to start in two months time. Moreover, please do take sometimes to live a comment on our blog and let us know of any suggestion you may have. As we said, you are family, so we are open to your positive ideas.
As an art, I’m passionate about music just for what it is, and not for what I may derive by doing it. Simply put, I love music because it gives me joy, and that feeling alone is sustaining and rewarding in and of itself irrespective of any material gains. Naturally, as a spiritual thinker and writer, most of my musical inspirations originate from a profound engagement and betrothal with the “Greater I’AM”—the real conscious self. I take pleasure in knowing that what I endeavor to do may serve a higher and more meaningful purpose than just acquiring the gross necessities to sustain this transient illusory physical life. In other words, I’m a conscious musician who is committed to play for the awakening and betterment of society. This is not just my perception, but a perfectly verifiable fact if one truly listens to the lyrics of my songs. Beside the originality of my rhythms, their accompanied lyrics are also of a unique class.
Personally, since the prime concern in sharing my music with the world is to promote a message of higher ideals, I do not believe in competition as such. Although taken as a business, competition makes perfect sense in music to generate buzz and sell records, but I believe in the conscious lane this clever tactic, abused by the industry, rather erodes and overshadows the real meanings of the messages of many phenomenal conscious artists.
In addition, I regard all musicians, irrespective of nationality or culture, as a single family of creative souls, each expressing the uniqueness of their personalities and faculties, I see competition as a futile and irrelevant mean to raise awareness of this spiritual reality, which if understood can be a source of tremendous blessing for society.
With these basic principles and attitudes in mind, we aim to remain different and maintain the originality of all of our artistic endeavors. Though this particular Album, "From Mind to Heart", being a "pet project" I wanted to do as an adaptation of "English on Haitian Kompa", is entirely on that rhythm, I' am essentially a versatile musician who is opened to a variety of musical genres; such as Pop, R&B, Reggae, Classical & meditative and world music. Thus, I’ll be releasing several tracks of different styles and rhythms in the near future. I’m currently working on a potpourri project, which is a compilation of several rhythms and languages such as Classical, R&B and Reggae. It is due to be released around the end of the year.
We hope you stay in touch with us by visiting this site as often as you can. Also, we strongly encourage you to sign up for our mailing list to receive our monthly newsletters due to start in two months time. Moreover, please do take sometimes to live a comment on our blog and let us know of any suggestion you may have. As we said, you are family, so we are open to your positive ideas.