St. Louis native John Wesley holds quite a few titles on his résumé: rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer. In the studio, he has written for Akon, will.i.am, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, and more. As a solo artist, he makes pop-friendly hybrid R&B as Jaylien. After several years as a behind-the-scenes writer and producer, Jaylien made his debut as an artist with 2016's Summer's Over.
Raised in a musical household -- his father was a college choir director and his mother was a choir singer -- he developed an early love of music, picking up the piano, sa...