Jay McGee was born in Lumberton, North Carolina and raised in Fayetteville, NC. McGee is a unique artist who has been blessed with the ability to write, arrange, perform and produce his own brand of soul and gospel music. Jay started singing in the church at the age of 4 years old where his family attended. He would then go on to perform with a group of his peers, The Junior Four in Fayetteville beginning at age 10 until the age of 18.

After high school graduation at age 18, Jay moved to Flint, MI where he began working for General Motors full time and performing on weekends with a secular group called the Flint Executives. During hiatuses from G.M. the Flint Executives traveled to Canada where Jay became intrigued with the idea of pursing a secular music career in Toronto.

Jay W. McGee

After relocating to Toronto, Jay had a margin of success as a background vocalist for the band "The Modern Drifter" and was part of the eight piece R&B male group "Crack of Dawn", patterned after the progressive US band Earth, Wind & Fire, appeared in the Toronto clubs hospitable to R&B at this time (the Generator, Colonial Tavern, Savarin, 4th Dimension, etc) and recorded for Columbia (including the modest hit "It's Alright (This Feeling)"' before disbanding in 1977.

As a secular recording artist he released four albums and several singles. One of his albums "Survivor" received airplay in various cities across Canada on each of the nine songs on the album. This was a feat unheard of for such an artist, earning him a Juno award nomination, Canada's equivalent to the Grammy. Jay's secular career got stuck and for all of it's promise went nowhere.

At this time Jay felt a calling on his life by the Holy Spirit. After answering the call he immediately began work on his first gospel album "I Hear Foot Steps" and was well-received in the local (Toronto) gospel market, but feeling the need to stretch out, Jay has since relocated to Flint, MI and is attempting to put the wheels in motion for an international recording career with the help of Almighty GOD.

It was from witnessing the singing and testimonies of artists like Archie Brownlee, Sam Cooke (to whom many say that Jay's voice bears a striking resemblance), Ira Tucker and Lou Rawls, that Jay developed his own style of singing Gospel music.

Jay's second Gospel release "No Walls" is a continuation of his unique GOD-given style of presenting gospel music. Jay believes that GOD kept him through his secular days allowing him to get the knowledge of music to someday use it to glorify HIM.