Detroit songwriter Jmsn brings ‘Soft Spot’ to Tampa this month

Miami dream-punk maker Mr. Floyd Larry opens the show.

By Ray Roa on Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 7:38 pm

Photo via officialJMSN/Facebook

Jmsn, who plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on June 27, 2024.

There are some voices that transcend labels and genrefication; Christian Andrew Berishaj's is one of them. The 37-year-old Motor City producer and songwriter better known as Jmsn (stylized in all-caps) has been recording music for 25 years, and released his major label debut via Atlantic in 2006.

His latest, Soft Spot (2023, White Room Records), updates a sound that's landed Berishaj in record store bins alongside Frank Ocean and Justin Timberlake, by sprinkling elements of pop, rock, gospel, dance and hip-hop (he's worked with Ab-Soul in the past) in with a label-defying sound akin to the late, great, Prince.

Miami dream-punk maker Mr. Floyd Larry opens the show.

Tickets to see Jmsn play Crowbar in Ybor City on Thursday, June 27 are still available and start at $20.
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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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