Xavier Aeon

Emotion is the muse that inspires heartfelt songs that invoke love, heartaches and reconciliation and when it comes to Xavier Aeon s self-titled debut, it s no different. Equally proficient as a singer, songwriter, and producer, Xavier s lyrics and soulful tone embraces you with caressing melodies, teasing you with crescendos of high notes, against a smooth fluid backdrop.

Jam-packed with potential hits, each song on Xavier s debut represents that page in your journal that you ve never shared. Most of my songs have a psychological/emotional twist. It s like lounging on a couch pouring it all out. Part testimony, part imagination, Xavier Aeon, is meeting a new lover when you re already in a relationship cruising on a summer day - finding love, losing love and maybe surrendering your passions to a one night stand.

Whether it s the chance meeting at a dance on the upbeat, playful Secret featuring Joe Budden or the sultry Rockabye, where eye contact leads to more, Xavier sets the stage for flirtation promising ecstasy with each sexy chord. Everyone who s had the experience of being in a club and being attracted to someone else across the room can relate to Secret. It s about the secret liaison that happens the first time you catch each other s eye. Maybe you leave with the person you came with or maybe not.

Xavier pulls no punches on the very sensual segue Rockabye, where he persuades you to come home with him by seducing you with promises of what s going to happen should you accept the invitation. The song closes with Xavier whispering his own Spanish lullaby in your ear. The slow funk of Summertime melts over a steady bass capturing the mood of a carefree summer day. Natural, which is a kind of continuation of RockaBye, but in this case, both people are in serious relationships, but the attraction is so strong and they end up doing what comes naturally to them.

All songs on Xavier s album were self and co-produced with the exception of the album s first single, Rub One Out featuring Elephant Man produced by reggae hit producer, Tony Kelly(Sean Paul, Wayne Wonder, Elephant Man, Patra). It s interesting because we were in Miami recording with Tony and he suggested Elephant Man for the track and we just made it happen from there. The musical synergy was definitely in the studio when we recorded that track.

Other prime cuts on the new CD include Whuut featuring Jadakiss, Friends With Benefits which Xavier describes as a being loosely based on an experience." He politely declines on divulging the details offering only that the song says it all.

Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Xavier was born into a family of two siblings with Puerto Rican parents who ethnically are Black and White. Being a mixed child definitely helped define who I am a person and ultimately as a musician. I remember being exposed to so many kinds of music growing up. First the Latin side of me, then the Black side of me, and then what my peers were listening to and finally Hartford, CT where I grew up which is mostly West Indian. So there s a lot of things going on musically in me.

A hometown star in Hartford, Connecticut, Xavier has been writing songs since he was nine. Like many other singers, his first introduction to music was in the church choir which he joined at the age of four. I remember singing in the choir and wanting so badly to grab the microphone and then when I got it, I was so shy but I soon broke out of that. By the age of ten, his family moved to Hartford, CT where he was raised and it wasn t long before he got into the Hartford music scene performing on the local talent show circuit.

Wanting to embrace a wider audience, Xavier soon started making regular trips to New York performing at clubs like Nells, The Village Underground, and the Soul Caf . He s worked with producers Chris Henderson ( Happily Ever After for Case) and Troy Oliver ( Differences for Ginuwine) and opened for notables like Marc Dorsey, Avant, Lumidee, and Wayne Wonder among others. The experience performing with these artists made me more serious about launching my own recording career, so my partners and I started F.I. Entertainment and we began writing more seriously. Things have been unfolding rather quickly since then.

With an album crafted overwhelmingly by his own personal experiences, Xavier describes his album simply as a love affair of interludes. It s all the things in between that we don t say to each other, the things in our eyes and body language that reveal everything left unsaid. But shh don t worry, he whispers. It s only natural. It s all between you and me, so let s keep it a secret.