User:Jesse Monster

Growing up in California, with a Sudanese/ American background,1989. Jesse Monster has been writing songs since he was in Elementary school. At the age of 17 he moved to Sudan and started the first rock band in the history of Sudan. The Elusive Movement hit big. Jesse was accompanied in his adventures by Aljonn Android, his best friend and guitar player. Somehow hearts changed and the band separated. Aljonn went to the Philippines and Jesse was left alone in Sudan.

Jesse was to do a few more shows in Sudan and record his popular song "Crazy" alone. Then he left Sudan.

Things were now different. He was completely on his own. There were nights when Jesse was so stoned of depression he just couldn’t think. But he found a way to move on, he had strong support from the people around him. He decided to continue the legacy. "The show must go on." He would always chant.

Jesse than met up with "Real-G:, from Khartoum's well known rap band "G-Squad", in Cairo to record the first Rap/Rock Collaboration in the Middle East. The song titled "Monster's Swag" talks about the suffering Jesse faced in Sudan and how hard it was to get acceptance. Though he was highly loved, he still felt really alienated.

"I love my fans in Sudan, I can never forget how high they get me when I sing and they are on the dance floor cheering me on. Sudan isn’t ready for me now ,I'll come back when the time is right. When the system has changed."

Jesse is currently working on his full length debut album "Holocaust of Me". To be released the year 2010. When he was asked where he got the idea for the name from, He replied, "Some of my family has never seen anything like me before ,I literally am a different dimension to them. I have never seen them before and I was too odd for their them to handle, so they did all that they can to make me one of them or take me out. I suffered greatly. I feel like the title explains this episode perfectly.

Jesse says that he used to teach kids as a part time job and do good for the world. The kids parents soon began to claim that it wasn’t suitable to have a "Death Star" teach their children .He was excused from the service, on the grounds that he was teaching kids to express themselves and that parents didn’t want that. Boys were doing Mohawks and girls were getting piercings. parents were not happy. And the International Standard English School(ISES) became the next school of rock and roll

Despite all this persecution and controversy Jesse is still listened to. He is in fact the most played Sudanese English Pop Artist. He is the talk of most conversation among youth along the Nile and abroad and hopes to inspire everyone everywhere to be themselves.

He hopes that one day Sudanese musicians can make something of themselves and play a role in modern music. In his first single with Aljonn Android, "Candle lights" the boys were assisted by popular Sudanese pop star  "Jazar" and Sudan's best guitarist " Tarig Al-Hawi " and DJ Moe. "The boys really inspired me when I was first starting off, I hope to do the same for other artist."