Jazz Cartier Profile, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Jazz Cartier is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his mixtapes, Marauding in Paradise and Hotel Paranoia. He has twice been a long listed nominee for the Polaris Music Prize, in 2015 for Marauding in Paradise, and 2016 for Hotel Paranoia, and won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017 for Hotel Paranoia. his debut studio album Fleurever in July 2018.

ahmarie Wishart Adams was born on March 19, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario. His stepfather worked as a diplomat for the U.S. State Department, which made him move around frequently in childhood with his family, living in various times in the United States, Barbados and Kuwait attending 13 boarding schools. He credits the different types of music he was exposed to in these locations as all having had an influence on his own style as a hip-hop musician.

Cartier spent majority of his high school career at Avon Old Farms, a prestigious all-male boarding school located in Connecticut, and graduated after transferring to another prep school, the Blue Ridge School located in St. George, Virginia. He then spent a postgraduate year at Bridgton Academy in North Bridgton, ME after completing high school.

He was accepted to an art program at Columbia College Chicago in 2012 but, reluctant to move to a new city where he knew no one, he returned to Toronto.

In 2013 the Get Home Safe Crew was formed in Toronto with 88Glam members Drew Howard & Derek Wise. They met through the city’s nightlife scene and eventually moved into together in the Kensington Market neighborhood.

Cartier had worked on an early version of his debut mixtape, Marauding in Paradise, in 2011, but was not satisfied with the tape. After moving back to Toronto, he began working with record producer Lantz after originally meeting in 2009 at a studio when Cartier was 16 years old. They released the song “Set Fire” in 2014. Performing in Toronto-area music venues, he quickly attracted attention his track “Switch” was regularly played at Toronto Raptors games by team DJ 4Korners, and at a Toronto Red Bull Sound Select show in March 2015 he was introduced by rapper Kardinal Offishall.