Teejay Finds His Individual Lane At Warner Audio, Signals Publishing And Record Deal

Teejay Finds His Individual Lane At Warner Audio, Signals Publishing And Record Deal

Jamaican artist Teejay has signed publishing and history offers with Warner Songs Team and Warner Records, in a shift that was described as “Dancehall’s largest for the year.”

The publishing deal was signed in Manhattan on June 15.

“Me Sense Good… a music we a duh from prolonged time and me hard work is last but not least paying off!! dis is just the start out!!… Drift… a suh we F+@K up in yah!!” the Owna Lane deejay reported in a launch sent to DancehallMag.

Person Moot, Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Chappell New music (WCM), the publishing arm of Warner Music Team, claimed he was delighted to see Dancehall music and another Jamaican artist on the worldwide rise. Moot has worked with Steely & Clevie, Stefflon Don and has been integral in Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGregor’s job, in accordance to the release.

“It’s the ideal artist with the ideal songs and the proper time,” the launch pointed out.

“With a important offer like this a person and Warner Music equipment driving him, the artiste’s songs will be exposed to sync legal rights, gaming, and sky is the limit.”

On June 21, Teejay’s staff declared that he has also signed a recording deal with Warner Documents.

Teejay, Aaron Bay Schuck (CEO of Warner Documents) and Steve Carless (A&R) (Picture by Judith Bodley)

In an Instagram submit, he credited the deal to his most recent strike Drift, unveiled in April.

Stable Agency’s Sharon Burke, who took over management of Teejay in 2021, following his exit from Romeich Amusement, said the offer was only two weeks in the generating after sifting through myriad features and finally “feeling at home with Warner.”

“TeeJay will do very well since he is a excellent artiste who is dedicated to the songs and the journey to the leading,” Burke said.

From left: Sharon Burke, Teejay, Man Moot

Reliable Company attorney Andrew Krents extra, “Its no shock that relentless work has paid out off and it could not have occurred for a superior artiste than TeeJay, whose output is usually at these a superior level”.

TeeJay, whose genuine title is Timoy Jones, emerged on the Dancehall scene in 2009 with the single Starlight

In 2012, he released tracks this sort of as My Life, Summertime Time, Dwelling My Life and Transfer From Deh.   During that period, Teejay joined forces with Ryme Minista and other Montego Bay artists exactly where they commenced a new music ensemble, for which he did the studio engineering work, on music such as Rhyme Minista’s Killaz and Killaz.

Next his effectiveness at Reggae Sumfest in 2018, Teejay caught Romeich Major’s eye and afterwards joined the entertainment administration household with Ding Dong and Shenseea as stablemates.

TeeJay started out his personal label, Top rated Braff Audio, in 2019, and is finest identified for his music From Rags To Riches, Unfaithful Online games, Owna Lane, Henne & Weed, Uptop Manager, Up Top, Individuals, and most lately Drift.

In August 2021, the Rags to Riches singer said the shift to Sound Agency was inspired by an inclination to development his job right after feeling stagnant for some time.  He extra that he felt the target was not on him, but additional so on other artists in the Romeich Entertainment camp.

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Teejay, nonetheless, needed to make it obvious that Romeich did, in reality, assist his career.

“Honestly, just one issue mi haffi say 1 hundred %, mi normally a go respect Romeich Enjoyment .. simply because him see the ting [eventhough] mi did already a tour, mi did presently a go places … but it just neva structured the good way and mi regard Romeich Entertainment fi say Teejay, ‘mi cant sign you as an artist but make we composition the ting’ so mi a go normally respect you dawg just one hundred per cent,” he claimed at the time.

Previous thirty day period, he announced an impending EP, I Am Chippy, an eight-observe task to be launched by Ranch Leisure and VP Documents.