User:Jumpinbear/Austin Jones (musician)

Austin Jones (Born December 12th, 1992) is a singer, Viner and YouTuber from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for covering Stay, originally performed by Rihanna.

On November 14th, 2014 a YouTube channel called My Digital Escape was launched with Jones being apart of it alongside Johnnie Guilbert, Bryan Stars, Jordan Sweeto, Alex Ramos (Later replaced by Jeydon Wale), Alex Dorame and Kyle David Hall.

In 2015, because of sexual allegations against Jones, he was kicked out of My Digital Escape and replaced by Shannon Taylor.

Jones released his EP titled We'll Fall Together on July 2014 and achieved success when it debuted at #34 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart as well as #12 on the iTunes pop chart. This increased his popularity and on Vine, he was on pace to surpass 200,000 followers at the end of 2014.

During a Twitter Q&A he stated that his musical inspirations include Front Porch Step and R Kelly.