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Antonio Jean is Explosive!

My name is Antonio Jean formerly known as Antonio Rowland. I am a singer, songwriter, and producer who was raised half of my life in Washington D.C. At the age of 13 my family and I moved to North Carolina where I continued my life, and education including college. Growing up my family and I experienced many hardships including financial issues and homelessness with no support system around to help us. The church failed us, and family failed us but we always had each other, and music.

Music has always been been at the forefront of my life because that’s something my family used to cope with the hardships we faced. Along this journey I recently in 2018 lost my mother Carol Jean Mclean one of the most important person to me.This is also how part of my stage name came to be, “Antonio Jean” to remind me, and always carry her with me through every success in it. She was my rock, my everything and my constant. Following her passing I didn’t believe I could continue this journey but the voice in the back of my head told me to follow the music and keep fighting. Writing has become my outlet which gets me through the tough times even when others promised to be there and weren’t writing has been my coping method.

 I have done some amazing things in my career including off Broadway, live recordings -an extra role in a HBO series. None of that compares to my dream of writing, and producing my own music to touch the people. To be clear it’s not about the money or fame but it is about the long lasting impression my music can have on the individuals of the world and make a difference in someone’s life, and that’s me Antonio Jean.