[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”5350″ img_size=”1500×1500″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_column_text]Jason Paige is a true Artist/Renaissance Man. His voice, acting, writing, arrangement and production skills successfully span the creative frontiers of music and theatre from Pop to Jazz, Hip-Hop to Rock, Soul to Country and more. His current performances spontaneously combine his vocal gymnastics, beatboxing and throat-singing into live recorded musical improvisations called “Looping”. For the past 18 years he’s most infamously known as the voice of the ever-present “Pokémon theme song”.
As a vocalist Jason toured for a year as the lead singer for legendary band Blood Sweat & Tears. He shared the stage with Michael Jackson as the rap soloist for the hit song “Black or White” in Michael Jacksons 30th Anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden aired on CBS. He can be heard on Foreigner’s “Cant Slow Down”, Meatloaf’s “Bat Outta Hell 3”, The Scorpions “Hour 1”, Frankie Valli’s “Romancing the 60’s” and on “The Art of McCartney” tribute CD behind Billy Joel, Roger Daltrey, Kiss and Smokey Robinson among others. His voice is featured in “Rick And Morty”, “Phinaes & Ferb”, “Sponge Out of Water”, “The Jersey Boys”, “Annie” with Kermit and Miss Piggy in the last “Muppet Movie” and a salad of singing food characters in “Sausage Party”. He has sang and beat-boxed with Aerosmith on tour and on the Howard Stern re-mix of the hit single “Pink” and has performed with Enrique Iglesias on tour, television and can be heard on his CD “7”.
As the featured soloist Jason has toured the world with Tommy Tallarico’s legendary Video Games Live. He sang backing vocals on tour for Oleta Adams, performed with Liza Minelli in “Liza’s Back” at Town Hall, with Ashanti at the Grammy’s and in many concerts with superstar icon Billy Porter. He’s also sung bg’s for Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Mark Anthony, Ricky Martin, Usher, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle.
Jason sings dozens of jingles every year. Recognizable highlights include Coke’s “Catch the Feeling”, Pepto Bizmol’s “Nausea Heartburn Indigestion” , Mountain Dew’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Taco Bells “Think Outside The Bun”, Subway’s “Eat Fresh”, Bounty’s “Quilted Quicker Picker-Upper” and of course the OG theme to the cartoon phenomenon “Pokemon” which was a Billboard #1 single played by millions on Guitar Hero and scored what was at the time the # 1 most viewed / imitated video of all time on YouTube.
Jason Paige has quickly risen again to the spotlight of the Pokémon Fans. He has been interviewed on MTV, CNN, TMZ, Nintendo News, SPIN, Cosmopolitan, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, CNET and more. His voice and rousing theme’s popularity has generated billions of hits on youtube and his current video presence and social media venues reach many millions.
As a writer / producer, he co-wrote for the scorpions with Marti Frederiksen, James Michael, and with Eric Bazilian, Russ Irwin and Desmond Child penned the Scorpions anthemic ballad “The Future Never Dies” spearheading their concept CD “Hour 1”. He’s produced Billboards # 1 Charting Dance Artist Becky Baeling, “Wicked” Broadway sensation Shoshanna Bean, Michael Weaver in “The New Black”, and co-produced Suzie Mcneil with Marti Frederiksen. He co-wrote the last “Lego-mania” jingle and a song in the Fox movie “Club Dread”, and has supplied songs for MTV’s hit “Rob N Big”. He produced “The What’s Up Show”, his own music/comedy sketch show on Manhattan cable TV which garnered a cult following in NYC. He has co-written two musicals, “BOX” and “Writing Pictures” produced at Hartford’s Bushnell Theatre for Black History month, based on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Toms Cabin”.
Theatrically Jason originated the role of Joe in the award winning world premier of Frank Zappas “Joes Garage” at Open Fist theatre and is an original member of L.A.’s acclaimed “For The Record” series appearing in all but 2 of their shows since inception. He won Broadwayworld.com’s best actor award and received a Ovation nomination for his role in FTR’s “Scorsese – An American Crime Drama” He also starred in and co-produced the world premier of Ty Taylor’s “The Existents” also at Open Fist. Jason produced and starred in Orchestre Surreal’s “Concerto For the Committed” at L.A.’s Ford Amphi-theatre aired on LA 36 and at the Dorothy Chandler Theatre, aired on PBS TV. He opened the World Premier of “Funny Business” at the Coronet theatre in L.A. to rave re- views. Jason was in “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl directed by Neil Patrick Harris and the 25th anniversary National tour of “Hair”. He starred as Jesus in Steven Schwart’s “Godspell” at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. and Judas in Webber’s “JC Superstar” at Cherry County Playhouse. He sang along side of Peter Frampton in the “British Rock Symphony” At the Beacon theatre and is a 15 year member of Michael McElroy’s renowned Broadway Inspirational Voices.
Jason appeared in the Oscar nominated film “Election”, in many Soap Operas, National TV commercials.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]