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May 20, 2025 13 mins
Jay Davids, an exciting new talent from NRT Music, is set to make waves in the Christian music scene. In a recent episode of the Christian Music Bros Podcast, he shares his journey as an artist, the inspirations behind his music, and his vision for connecting with listeners through heartfelt lyrics and melodies. As he discusses his creative process and the challenges he faces as an emerging artist, fans can gain insight into what drives his passion for music and his commitment to spreading positivity and faith through his work. This episode promises to be an inspiring listen for anyone interested in the evolving landscape of Christian music and the voices shaping its future.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, everyone, Welcome back to the greatest podcast on the
planet Earth, The Joe Rogan Show. Okay, I'm kidding, I'm
not Joe Rogan. I wish i would sometimes. His podcast
is really cool. Kind of was of one of my
motivations for this podcast. I'm not don't talk as nearly
as much as Joe Rogan, and my episodes are not
three point five hours wrong, because I love you guys.
I don't want to have you sit for three point
five hours and me's just talking. But this is the

(00:23):
Christian Music Breast Podcast with Brendenburg, and I'm great to
see you back here today. It's a beautiful Saturday here
in January. Where as of today we are like fifteen
days for my birthday or something like that, and the
Lines are in the playoffs. Life is going good. If
you're not a Lions fan, please here for the lines.
Don't be one of those bad wagons, though, because I

(00:44):
feel like it's taken over Earth. But we're not here
to talk about Lions football as much as I could
talk about Lines football on top of Christian music. But
we're gonna talk about Christian music. And I'm here with
a special guest today, Jay David. I'm gonna let Jay
introduce himself right now.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hey, this is Jay David's. Yeah, I am a Christian
music artist. I've been around for a minute, but just
releasing new music now and working with Nashville Christian Songwriters
and NRT and uh, yeah, I'm excited to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Thank you for joining me today. I appreciate good time.
And everyone say hello to Jay. I know this is
just a lot like pre recorded segment, but drop a
hello in the comments or follow this page when we're
done posting this episode and everything. And Jay, thank you
again for being here. We're going to start off nice
and easy. He canna te us a little bit about yourself,
like how you got involved in music.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So I pretty much grew up doing music when I
was three years old or so. I grew up in
a musical family. I'm the youngest of four, and so
I've always always, always just been a part of my life.
But growing up in church, I was the little kid
up front that was flipping the little transparencies back if
you know what those are. Back before. Yeah, so they

(01:54):
used to have these overheads. I'm not going to go
into the whole story. They'd showed up on the wall.
It's you know, before projectors. But so I was a
little kid doing that while my family was all in
the worship team. So I just grew up in music,
been professionally trained since since a young child. And yeah,
so I've just always it's like breathing to me, It's

(02:14):
something I've always done.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I can't imagine life with that. We grew up.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Music was a part of the household, Like we would
sit around the kitchen table. Dad would pull out his
guitar after dinner and we would all sing together. It
was it was I found out that that was actually
not normal, but to me that was the every day.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
So yeah, I just always been a part of it.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's really cool. And I just when I say, you
have a really cool tow my shirt on too, so
oh thank you for that. Yeah, And I feel like
a biggering a creaty name from this podcast for those
who have watched side Swiss and had a channel before,
So a lot of you guys are worship leaders kids,
and I found out really cool and like how you
got started hours and worship leaders kid, but now you're
making your music and your own.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, Yeah, I so it was what's strange is I
every one of my siblings became a worship leader, but
my parents weren't. They were just church people. They just
had us there. So it's it's really cool. So yeah,
I lead worship my all my siblings do. And funny
how that how that works out?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Question, dude, since you do, like do worship at your
church and everything? Are any of your siblings go to
your church or is it just to you? Or are
they all over.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We're all scattered, so I'm we Yeah, so I've nobody
comes to my church. They're all in different parts of
the country, so Texas and New York, Massachusetts were scattered around.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
So I wish they did, but you know, you have
to do it a sibling like worship that when they
come visit or when I go visit, we do. It's
kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I thought the idea of my head. But like I said,
I told you ahead of time, Like I don't know
where this podcast was good, but it's just it's the
follow up anyway. You just said you released, You've been
releasing new music. You just released a new single this
past Friday on the seventeenth. This is how We're gonna
be pasted. January seventeenth, this episode was very course, this
sing's probably out a few weeks now since we talked.

(04:02):
Just a heads up for people that are watching. I'm
just given a day for reference. Can it tell us
a little bit about that single?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
So, yeah, that song, it's I Say Yes is the
name of it.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
And when I wrote it, I had this image in
my head of like that that person who's kind of
in the dust, in the dirt, desperate for for something,
for help, and and you know, like in the Bible
where you've got the I don't I don't know how
to call them other than the destitute person. They're they're
sitting in the dirt and Jesus is coming down the

(04:32):
road and when and they have no hope, they.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Have no thought of I can reach out to Jesus.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
They're just gonna sit there and they're gonna ask for
their alms, they're gonna do their begging, and he's going
to walk by.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
And so that's the mindset of the person in this song.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
And but then suddenly Jesus is right there in front
of you and he's saying, will you believe me? And
it's in that moment when when you say yes to
Jesus that everything changes, and so that's really the nutshell
of that whole along that God when you say yes,
can take you from dust and dirt and ashes and
to take you to faith and fire.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
That's really cool. And you know you have a fantastic
blind of artists. I got this from your website, so
don't bear with me. I'm just shaking it up the
website for Raffords Points. Your music is like a blind
of Brandon Hey, Matthew West, and Stephen Curtis Chapman. Do
you say there's some musical inspirations of yours?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
So yeah, definitely definitely some inspiration from there. But if
I'm to be honest, my my, if you have to
go back a lot further than that.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
For for my influence has grown up on Long Island.
Billy Joel was a huge influence on my life.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Uh. Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorite artists
of all time. Like I love the blues and rock
and roll early Christian artists, not just Stephen Curtis Chapman,
but you know guys like Brian Duncan and Baby and
CC Winings back in the.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Day and even R and B.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know, Stevie Wonder, I love all that stuff, and
that's all very influential in my and you can hear
all that elements of all that in my music at school.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
You just brought up like Stevie Wonder and Billy Joe.
I'm seeing Billy Joel for the first time in March.
I'm pretty yeah. And then I just saw Stevene. Wonder
back here in October.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, when you see Billy Joel, there's gonna be a
guy on stage named Mike del Judas.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
He's a he.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I grew up with him, like we we played on
Long Island together. I used to play saxophone behind him
playing keyboard. And now he's living the dream playing with
Billy Joel.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
So it's it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's very cool.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I like those those those those those those bleed seats, but.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Like that's what it's like. One of them.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
You could luck out, though.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Billy has a habit of grabbing somebody from the nosebleeds
and putting them in the front row.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, I'm pretty lucky. I'm not gonna say.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I bet you had to be biased, but I'm pretty lucky.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
But better than me, I'm not lucky at all.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I don't get this Billy jol grads me for the
front row. We're gonna just have him on his podcast. Guys,
I'm gonna say, hey, come to my podcast. He's probably
not a good Christian musician artists to have on his podcast,
but we close just have a legend on the podcast too.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's nobody would complain about having a legend on their podcast,
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Anyway, this is not about Billy Joel. This is about
you every day. You've been working with n RT Music recently?
Can you tell us how has been working with Kevin
and NRT Music?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
They're great, so it's a very it's a new relationship.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
They they they've been a part of my my two
new releases Free Indeed and I say yes and just
seeing you know, Kevin's been very influential for me in
helping me just kind of establish my part.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Of the the.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
The out there part of my artistry. Like there's a
big so artistry is divided into parts.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
There's the part where it's what you're doing in private
and the writing and with your guitar, your keyboard set,
setting in your in your bedroom. Right, But then there's
the part where you have to start making yourself known
and Kevin has been huge and helping me get that established.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's very cool, and Kevin's a great guy. I've actually
had Kevin on this podcast, believe it or not. It's fine,
all right, I'm talking about getting him again for if
anyone knows what we talked about this a couple episodes
of I'm not going to go into details again, but
the We Love Awards are coming up, so we might
talk about that again. And I'm just saying, great, you're
working with Kevin. I think he's a great mentor as well.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So yeah, he's been great.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Flash war to Now we're in the middle of January here.
I know we said this episode probably gonna come out
in the three weeks. I'm just playing standpoints so we
know when we're talking. So people are why did you
say this is gonna be out in like three weeks
and now it's the song is already out. It's because
I'm filming this in January. But do you have any
feature of plans for the rest of the year, like

(08:32):
any new songs. Yeah, if you can't talk about something,
we can be funch touched about it. But I just.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Probably no, I no problem talking about it.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
So I've actually just completed a full EP, and I
Say Yes is the second song off of the EP.
So there's another four songs that will be coming out
over the next you know, for you know, four or
five six months, and so just be watching for that
because it's all really excellent stuff I was able to
do when I was down in.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Nashville last year.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm I'm super excited about it because it's all this
is all part of the the you know, we talked.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
About branding earlier.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is this is all the new the new brand
of of Jay David's and and it's not that it's
not my story or it hasn't been it, but it's
there's you know, you kind of get to where there's
there's the stuff you used to do, and there's the
stuff you're called to do. And this is what I'm
called to do. Like there's there's a there's a big
part of this that is more the real me than

(09:28):
ever than I've ever put out before. So I'm really
excited about it.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's that's cool.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
And anyone who's wistening any slashwa washing is that's streaming
satch whatever you do with this podcast. If you're hating
against it, against it, I still love you. If you
hate against it. Make sure to check out Jay's channel,
Facebook page, is Instagram page and everything for new things
coming soon. Do you have any of us coming up
this year?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do I have any it Broke Up events?

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
So I have a couple of things planned.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
The only one that is kind of a public event
right now is I'll be at Hope twenty five, which
is a festival in September up here in PA. That's
gonna be a good one. I'll be at the Sellisville Theater.
I'm mostly doing local, regional things right now, but I've
got some things in the works. I just don't don't
have details on those, so I don't want to share

(10:19):
them yet, but they're they're there's some big things that
I believe are coming up, and like it's early in
the year, so we're working those things out.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
But yeah, I'm excited about it.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I was able to do a show at a place
called the sellers Real Theater last year and they they
don't often have Christian artists come in, but I was
able to. It was just kind of a connection that
I was able to make and they had us in
and they said we'd love to you guys, we just
need to have you back.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
So that's on the schedule too.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
So yeah, I'm open to do more things, and I'm
trying to do more things. It's just, you know, it's
there's a this is the beginning of this adventure, so
it takes some time.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'm to.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Roll things up understandable. I just was wondering, so like
any of our listeners of this episode, I should say,
I was gonna say channel but episode because we get
people from watch one random episode and they'll never watch
another episode. I'm saying, can you come check you our
support you out.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
So yeah, and if anyone wants you know I I do.
This is what I do. So I'm happy to come.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
If you want, want J David's band to come where
we'll be there, let me know.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
And we just have a few extra moments with you today.
I like giving the floor to our guests about anything
they want to speak about. I can be a message,
you can me a story. It can just be some
completely random because I'm random and like randomness this so
I like to give you the floor to speak about
anything you want.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sure, the big thing in my life right now is
the mission that God's put in me.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
And that's like you mentioned my sweatshirt. The restore. Restore
is my uh, this is my one of my merch.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Items, but it's store and restoration is the thing, the
mission that God's given me. It's got and to nutshell
that I believe that God can take what's broken and restored.
He can take the dead things and bring him back
to life. He can he can take what's been destroyed
and make something beautiful out of it. And that's that's

(12:20):
what God's works in me when I do minute, when
I minister, when I'm doing concerts and stuff like that.
That's what he's doing. That's what he seems the way
he seems to be working in me. And that's my
heart kind of based out of Malachi where it says
He's returning the hearts of the children to the fathers
and fathers to the children. Brokeness comes in all different ways,
but I believe that God is a God of restoration,

(12:43):
and that's that's really what my mission is. So that
that's the thing, that's my takeaway. That's the thing I
would if anybody listens to what I say, that's the
thing I want them to take away when when I'm
done talking is is. God wants to restore whatever that
is in your life, whatever whatever situation that you that
you're seeking restoration, or even you might not even know

(13:04):
about it, you just know that there's brokenness. God wants
to restore you too, to health, to where He created
you to be.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Hey, you for shureing, and for those who are listening
into everything, I recommend replaying that clip. I might make
a real of it. I'm trying to invest into making
more reels for the podcast channel, so you might hear
me make a reeal of this, but I recommend just
explaining that repeat if I don't make a real of it. Jay,
I know this conversation was nice and short. I like
keeping the channel nice and short. I appreciate your time

(13:32):
and Daked for joining me today.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Thank you, appreciate your time, and.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Everyone else who's watching and streaming this channel. I appreciate
you tuning into this episode of the Fresh Music podcast.
Remember feel like what you're listening to watching a wife
Follow and subscribe and if you comment, I always try
to make sure I comment back or respond to you
as soon as I can. Take care everyone, and we'll
see you next time.
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