Jordan Feliz - The Beloved Tour

What artist launched his career as a hard-touring heavy metal singer, then switched gears to become a church worship leader, before finally signing a Nashville record deal and making his mark as a songwriter and soulful R&B-groove-pop artist performing contemporary Christian music?

Well, if the question comes up some day, you'll already know the answer: Jordan Feliz.

Fronting the West Coast buzz band A Current Affair gave Jordan's powerful vocals some major exposure right out of high school. The band performed on the Warped Tour and other high profile gigs before dissolving. But heavy metal was never Jordan's passion; it was just a fun experience with his friends to grow musically. As a child, Jordan grew up with R&B artists like Sam Cooke and Earth Wind & Fire providing the soundtrack to his frequent road trips to a ski resort with his family. Artists from what his father called "the good music era." Those were the sounds and stylings that stuck in Jordan's musical memory and by the time he was old enough to realize that his own singing voice was a gift, it was those early groove-funk-soul singers that had shaped his personal aesthetic. If he was going to make records, those were the kind of influences he wanted to draw from.

It was not until 2015 that his solo music career commenced. The first studio album, Beloved, was released on October 2, 2015, from Centricity Music. The song, "The River", charted on three Billboard magazine charts the Christian Songs at 2, Christian Airplay at 1, and Christian Digital Songs at 2. His second studio album, The River (Jordan Feliz album), released on April 22, 2016, from Centricity Music. In 2016, Feliz won the Dove Award for 'New Artist of the Year'.