Jon Bellion

Bellion was born on December 26, 1990, in Lake Grove, New York, US. He is of Italian descent. He grew up with his brother and sisters. During school years he was interested in basketball but by junior high year, his interest shifted to music and he began writing songs on his brother’s key-board.

After completing high school, he joined ‘Five Towns College’ in Dix Hills, New York, for a music program. However, he did not complete the studies and gave up when he was 19. Bellion decided to learn from experience than by remaining confined to a system. He opted for professional song writing and worked under Warner Bros’ songwriter and A&R executive Kara DioGuardi. This experience helped him write songs for different artists in rock and hip-hop genres.

In 2011, he released his first mixtape, ‘Scattered Thoughts Vol. 1,’ through his Facebook page. He had written, composed, and produced the music all by himself. In 2012, he signed with ‘Visionary Music Group,’ and released a cover version of Drake’s ‘The Motto,’ on their ‘YouTube’ channel.

Bellion wrote the chorus of Eminem’s 2012 song, ‘The Monster,’ which featured Rihanna and became a huge success. The song won ‘2015 Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.’ This brought him fame and recognition. He was co-writer and producer of Jason Derulo’s song, ‘Trumpets.’ Bellion also received credits for the track ‘Robin Williams’ by CeeLo Green.

In 2013, he released his next mixtape, ‘Translation Through Speakers,’ and later in the same year brought out another mixtape, ‘The Separation.’ On September 2014, the ‘Visionary Music Group’ released his fourth one, titled ‘The Definiton.’ This mixtape featured his social network hits such as, ‘Simple and Sweet,’ ‘Human,’ among others.

Bellion commenced on his first national tour in October 2014, and the tour was called ‘The Beautiful Mind Tour.’ The name of his band is ‘Beautiful Mind’ and all the nine band mates are his friends from his college. He gives the credit of his success to his band mates and expresses his affection for them in the documentary, ‘Beautiful Mind,’ which was made in February, 2014.

He featured in a 2015 EDM song ‘Beautiful Now’ by Zedd from his album, ‘True Colors,’ and also featured in ‘Violence’ from the album ‘Psycadelik Thoughtz’ by American rapper B.o.B. In 2015, Bellion released a number of singles through ‘Capitol Records’ which included ‘Woodstock,’ ‘All Time Low,’ and ‘Woke the F--k Up.’ He began his second national tour, ‘The Definition Tour,’ in May 2015 which ran up to July, 2015.