The Essential Jason Nelson

Jason Nelson is a HIGH-ENERGY entertainer for all ages. Born and raised in Hillsborough, NJ, Jason Nelson quickly learned how to play the piano, saxophone, guitar, recorder, and harmonica, all before the age of ten. Jason graduated from the Rutgers Business School in 2017 with a B.S. in Marketing and a Certificate in Recording Arts from the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Performing Arts.

Spending 4 years at a huge party school like Rutgers, I became obsessed with mainstream house music (I was a freshman in college when “Animals” by Martin Garrix became popular, ya feel?). During my free time in college, I enjoyed spending hundreds of hours mixing house songs together in my DJ software program to make mixes for my friends to play at parties (and even DJ’ed for my friends at parties from time to time too). Calling my mixes “The Essential Jason Nelson,” my closest friends naturally started calling me this nickname, and naturally it stuck.