Whatever Happened To Jay Sean?

Today we are going to talk about the 000s artist Jay Sean more known for ‘Down’ than anything. Where did he go?

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[mielissaify]

This was back when Wayne would do a song with everyone lol. I remember him doing the most random collabs.

[RebeccaJ]

“Down” was literally THE anthem of my freshman year of high school. 😟

[MRJLS]

His career went quick he blew up in a time where everyone had a blow up song and you actually could truly take over I enjoyed him. Cash money really wasn’t the best place for him when nicki and drake came that was the label focus. They even let Lloyd and many others fall to the waste side.

[Hani]

Down with Wayne was so iconic lmao! When he says ‚i‘m down like the economy‘ i felt that

[AXFN_]

I’ll always give Jay Sean props for being a South Asian pop star in the west. That’s practically a unicorn. To be a PoC, r&b leaning pop star, in the U.K. was difficult enough bc it’s not the most popular genre here and you had to work twice as hard back then for half the recognition. But to be a PoC UK pop star who managed to pull-off a successful American crossover is even more rare. Him and Taio both managed it, and a lot of people in the U.K. scene had a slightly blindsided - “why them”? - Type of attitude about their huge crossover success…because neither of them exactly had the red carpet rolled out for them by the establishment within the U.K. music scene..at all. Quite the contrary..they were both pretty much ignored in the U.K. scene for years and the music critical class had a cultural blind spot. Then when “mr local schmocal” has hit records that blow up in America, everybody wants to embrace and be revisionist, acting so proud you’re out in the states flying the flag for British Pop, acting like they were supporting your career and believed in you the whole time 😅 lol..they didn’t. The truth is, they were more embraced in America than at home. People at home were too busy stanning Girls Aloud, Scouting for Girls and a bunch of other U.K. acts who would never crossover. 😂

[chekereullanda]

big up jay Sean! fun fact he randomly came to my school during our lunch break and performed to us kids in the school hall when I was 11 years old back in 2005 aha... still to this day I remember him saying to us 'I'm an Asian man in a white country, singing black music! live your dreams everyone you can do anything!' underrated artist he deserves more praise, it was super difficult in the UK Scene back then for artists like him.

[kevin]

Other artists to do:

3OH!3
Olly Murs
Iyaz
Cascada
Gym Class Heroes
Flo Rida
Far East Movement
Timbaland
Adam Lambert
Hot Chelle Rae
Alexandra Stan
Cobra Starship
Nico and Vinz
MAGIC!

[Janetexo]

life was good when his song down came out

[BakaNeBaka]

'Down', 'Ride It', 'Eyes on you', 'Stolen' are still awesome even in 2021.

[forgottenson]

*Aah I remember him back in the day, his “down” song was such a banger!*

[bettymacharia]

He could be great at modelling tho, , , he's handsome

[iamthedaughteroftheking]

I’m Hispanic. When I was a kid, it was great and inspiring seeing a person of color like me on top. ❤️

[Trentvn]

Down by jay sean and his song w nicki will never be forgotten.

[michaelshandy__iambi]

You guys remember Natalie La Rose? she sang "Somebody" with Jeremih in 2015. It was peaked at #10. And next she released "Around The World" with Fetty Wap and it was flopped. Somebody was great, Around the world is the elevated state of Somebody and it flopped. She had the chance to be the more successful mode of Tinashe. Or maybe Normani. But she just vanished after Around The World flopped.

[laxsneha]

I remember as a young teen being absolutely amazed by the Rishi rich project and Jay Sean for introducing underground the UK scene to Asia through their interpretation and I harboured the biggest crush on Jay Sean. I would be so happy to listen to anything he would put out and it would always be a banger❤️

[beingzombievstheworld]

I was shook after finding out he was british indian n his real name was kamaljeet singh jhooti just i thought he was mixed

[MABSisthebest]

The coolest and most useless fact about jay Sean is that he’s actually a trained medical doctor! His parents weren’t happy he wanted to pursue music so he did medicine to make them happy and went on do follow his dream. Paid off, two songs and he’s minted for life lol

[Aries_Superstar_Army]

When I listen to Down, it feels like my senior year of high school during P.E., lunch breaks, yellow school bus rides (this song was a radio hit playing on every station), school dances and prom night.

[LoneLionLeo]

What happened to Colby O’ Donnis? He should have risen with lady gaga since they sang Just dance. But he disappeared

[duaneind]

You always be givin me the content I want but too short 😭😭😭