Born Jamaal Desmond Bowry, Jhyve comes by his genre blend honestly. His mother sings in agospel choir and his father is a former DJ who bumped soca and calypso at community parties withhis own “big ass” soundsystem. Jhyve took those influences from his parents, immigrants from theCaribbean island of St. Kits, mixed them with the late-90s R&B he grew up on and added alt-rock picked up from his university dorm-mates who played guitar and got high all day.