Green Velvet

Artist

Popular As Cajmere · Geo Vogt · Half Pint · Curan Stone · Gino Vittori

Birthday April 26, 1968

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Age 55 years old

Nationality United States

#52145 Most Popular

1968

Curtis Alan Jones (born April 26, 1968), better known by his stage name Green Velvet, is an American disc jockey, singer and record producer.

He is also known as Cajmere, Geo Vogt, Half Pint, Curan Stone, and Gino Vittori.

Curtis Alan Jones was born on April 26, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois.

He grew up listening to blues, jazz, funk, and rock.

1980

In the mid 1980s, he was introduced to house music via the radio.

He started making music with a "sixty-buck keyboard, a cheap four-track and a cheap drum machine".

Jones graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a degree in chemical engineering.

1991

After attending the University of California, Berkeley, he moved back to Chicago in 1991.

In 1991, Jones started releasing his music under the Cajmere moniker.

1992

In 1992, he founded a record label, Cajual Records.

In that year, he released a collaborative single with Dajae, titled "Brighter Days" that peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

1995

In 1995, he released a single, "Flash", under the Green Velvet moniker.

It reached number 1 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

1999

Green Velvet's debut studio album, Constant Chaos, was released in 1999.

2000

In 2000, he released a compilation album, Green Velvet.

In the mid 2000s, Green Velvet revealed on Myspace that he had become a born-again Christian, after a serious overdose of a mixture of magic mushrooms, marijuana, and (allegedly) GHB.

2001

He released Whatever in 2001, Walk in Love in 2005, and Unshakable in 2013.

2014

In the same year, he released the single "Coffee Pot (It's Time for the Percolator)" also known as "Percolator”, which was recorded at the Playroom Recording Studio by Jerome Mark Mikulich. Rolling Stone included it on its "20 Best Chicago House Records" list in 2014 while Mixmag included it on its "20 Best US Rave Anthems of the '90s" list in 2019. In 1993, he founded another label, Relief Records.

In 2014, he teamed up with Claude VonStroke to form the side project Get Real.

2015

In 2015, he released a collaborative album with Carl Craig, titled Unity.

DJ Mag has described Green Velvet as "a stalwart figure in both house and techno".

2016

The duo's debut single, "Mind Yo Bizness" / "Snuffaluffagus", was released in 2016.

2019

Billboard included it on the "10 Essential '90s Rave Jams" list in 2019.

Mixmag included it on the "20 Best US Rave Anthems of the '90s" list in 2019.

The duo's second single, "Jolean", was released in 2019.