Joey Vantes
Joey Vantes
Joey Jewish, Joseph Cervantes, Dorian Grey
Joey Vantes is a West Coast-based Christian singer, rapper, songwriter, and founder and CEO of his record label Signature Sound. He first came on the Christian Hip-Hop scene with his successful 2016 debut album, Beautiful Solitude. The album’s namesake single, “Beautiful Solitude”, is one of Vantes' most popular songs to date, accruing just over 985,000 Spotify plays.
Despite being completely independent, Joey has been very successful, signing deals with names like Nike, Christian Dior, Starbucks, and HBO, just to name a few. His sales have also shown amazing growth, with his third album ‘The Vantes Project 2’, reaching No. 3 on the iTunes Hip-Hop/Rap charts on it’s first day of release. His next album, ‘The Vantes Project 3’ did better numbers, and gained enough momentum for Joey to sign a licensing deal with Starbucks, where his song Cloud could only be played at Starbucks locations, therefore it was removed from streaming services.
Only three months after the release of TVP3, he released another EP entitled The Fall, which took a much darker turn. Joey opened up about his depression, drug abuse, and family issues. In an interview with Rapzilla, Joey talks about his early career and life while addicted and depressed. He talks about his own drug and alcohol abuse, suicide attempts, and how his music saved someone else, and in turn, saved himself.