YOUNG JIMMY

I’m sending out my condolences to D’Angelo family and loved ones. To be honest I wasn’t much of a fan of his work until he dropped his last studio album ‘Black Messiah’ in 2014. That’s when he got my full attention and made me a real fan. That album reminded me of one of my favorite albums by MAGGOT BRAINS. But this record subject matter dealt with race and social injustice. I keep reading he was a neo soul artist but that last album he was playing Funk Rock, he literally picked up a guitar. That record also turned me onto an exceptional singer-songwriter I had the blessing of working with on a track title “No Racist”. A song I wrote after the killing of George Floyd. Black Messiah will forever be one of my top favorite albums. RIP D’Angelo thank you for your influence and songs.

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Before becoming a solo recording artist, was the lead guitarist & co-songwriter of a 5 five-piece all-black ‘indie rock’ band called Sankofa. Formed in 2006, and the house band of the now legendary House of Yes (music venue). During the height of the New York City indie rock Scene. YOUNG JIMMY was a mere 19 years old during the recording of this album.

The band was an integral part of the early Afro-Punk scene in New York City, recording just one album, an unreleased studio EP called “To My Chagrin” (recorded in 2007, released in 2014), recorded at the Monsterland Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with mixing & mastering engineer Paul Mahajan.

Paul has captured the sounds and energies of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s (Fever To Tell), The Lairs (Arena Rock), TV on the Radio (Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, and Young Liars), and The National’s (Beggars Banquet). Sankofa consisted of Hassan Spruill (rhythm guitar), Darren Maxwell (Singer), YOUNG JIMMY (lead guitarist), JC (drummer), and Reginald Duvivier (Bass). To My Chagrin (2007) Available Now on Link 🔗 in the bio