Javelyn, an award-winning artist whose music and voice shoot straight to the heart, while kicking one's butt - mixing melodic highs and lows to the funky beat of the street. Javelyn is one of the freshest rising stars in the indie music world on the music scene, an artist for the life and times in which we live – A three-time winner of the prestigious "Rockies" award for "Best Female Solo Artist of the Year" and "Best Folk Artist" from Rock City News (Los Angeles), Javelyn is "A singular breath of refreshing sound in today's sea of plurality." DJ J.P. Morgan - WDMG, Douglas, Georgia; “Not the same ol', same ol', but something fresh and new." DJ Desiree Douglas - KWXX, Hilo, Hawaii.J
Javelyn is truly one of the new DIY artist entrepreneurs of the 21st Century, starting in the world of guerilla indie music and film. Javelyn created a night in Los Angeles for independent music called Java With Javelyn Indie Music Nites where she has hosted and performed with some of the hottest live and recorded indie acts in L.A. Out of this event, she also helped produce 4 indie compilation CDs.
Javelyn moved to Nashville several years ago and took some time off music just to enjoy the richness of other artist’s music. She was invited to a songwriter event at Johnny Cash’s “Storyteller Farm” and played the piano that Johnny toured with for 21 years. After that event, a fire burned in her to start a new event in Hendersonville, TN called “Songwriter Circle w/aTwist”, gathering local and touring artists to share their songs and stories. She also was in talks to host a night a week at one of the mainstream songwriter venues in Nashville before the virus stopped the world. That did not stop Javelyn.. She released a small EP in the midst of the "pause" to raise money and awareness for St Jude’s Research Hospital with 100% proceeds of first 100 CDs going to St Judes. Since then, she has performed numerous venues in Nashville and beyond in the South. She also created a Brentwood Music Series and hosted 404 Bar & Grill's open mic night for a stint. Catch her upcoming shows on Reverbnation,Facebook or Instagram.
Javelyn also has acted in theater, film, video, national commercials, print and is a graduate of the Second City Comedy Improv Training Center in LA. She plays keyboards and ukulele – acoustic and electric. She is a member of NARAS, SAG, ATAS and AFTRA. The influence of professional acting schools and roles help paint the melodic, sometimes sassy, theatrical, style of Javelyn’s lyrics and song-weaving. Javelyn ‘fell into’ music by being hired from a modeling gig to be a part of a 4-piece classic rock cover band where she cut her teeth singing and playing keyboards in the pounding world of cover bands. She began writing with original bands and producers, letting the music always tell her what to write, and has worked with a variety of different people to develop the skills of the fine art of collaborating. Javelyn brings this skill set and her acting improvisation into the world of New Media, to help create and star in her new show “Adventures With Javelyn”, featured on QuAHZ TV which features a variety of guests, both musical, talented and inspirational and will be relaunched in Nashville end of 2020. In 2017 and 2018, Javelyn was tapped to be a guest judge in the US Sketch Comedy Championships hosted in Hollywood..
Check out her upcoming shows for next live appearances. (After Covid-19 passes).. meantime, catch her on FB Live in her “Javvy Corner”.. and reruns of “Adventures With Javelyn” on www.QuaHZ.com. Javelyn =Soothing the heart, while kicking the butt.