Curtis Alan Jones is an electronica and house music singer, songwriter and producer born April 26, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. His style of house music has been compared and inspired by the likes of Kraftwerk, Prince, Gary Numan, and Nitzer Ebb. After appearing under a host of different names for his various remixing and side projects, Green Velvet released his fourth album, Walk In Love, in 2005.
This album had a more house music-oriented style to it, but the odd Prince and Punk-sounding tracks still remained, as Curtis actually got a live guitarist to play on “Come Back” and the closing track Pin Up Girl had a similarity to New York based Electroclash group Fischerspooner. After Walk In Love, Green Velvet produced and remixed releases for fellow Relief Records artists and himself, and played a host of DJ session live shows in 2006.
In a shocking turn, after staying quiet in the music scene, Green Velvet revealed in 2006 he had become a born again Christian after a serious overdose of a mixture of Magic Mushrooms, Marijuana, and GHB, and promised to turn his life around after this incident. His latest release, the single “Shake and Pop,” is a departure from the recent darker electronica style, as he claims he has found a brighter future since converting. In 2007, he released the online only track “Love Peace, Not War,” a short ditty in response to the United States’ war in Iraq.
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