Nypoleon is a R&B singer, songwriter

Songwriter

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, record producer

Record producer

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 and actor

Actor

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. He is best known for his song "Always be Around", the first single from his independently released album "The Warm Up". The music video received over 550,000 views on YouTube

YouTube

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. Born in Trinidad

Trinidad

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, Nypoleon moved to Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood, New Jersey

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 as a teenager. Growing up, he was influenced by a wide range of artists. These included Luther Vandross

Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...

, Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

, Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men is an American R&B vocal group best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are the most successful R&B group of all time, having sold more than albums worldwide. In the 1990s, Boyz II Men found fame on Motown Records as a quartet, but original member Michael McCary...

, Bob Marley

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

 and The Notorious BIG. “I love R&B, but I was also influenced by Caribbean music, so it only made sense for me to incorporate all these elements into my sound”, said NYpoleon. He has been singing and performing music since age 6 and led his church choir as a teenager in Trinidad, becoming known as a dynamic performer and actor. Growing up, Nypoleon used music as a relief when faced with harsh challenges. NYpoleon says this also explains why his songs are so real because they all express his true feelings and experiences.

Music career

NYpoleon's music consists of a blend of R&B, soca music

Soca music

Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....

 and reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

. He is currently promoting his début album “The Warm Up” which is being distributed nationally by the independent Select-O-Hits. “I called it “The Warm Up” because I’m still growing as an artist. Every song that I write is better than the last one”, says NYpoleon. “The Warm Up’ has been a huge success at college radio, being the most added on the CMJ Hip Hop Adds Chart in August. A mix of club bangers, ballads and mid-tempo tunes, the album also received generally positive reviews from a number of publications, including The Essex Journal (NJ), URB Magazine, First Coast News (Jacksonville, Fl) and Hot Indie News. His 1st single “Always be Around” and club banger “Pimp-a-fyin became underground hits in the New Jersey area, with the music video for “Always be Around” receiving over ½ million views on youtube in its first 3 weeks. The Warm Up has sold over 11,000 copies to date. Nypoleon will be doing a song with Mega-Fly Music featured for his upcoming album.

Personal life

NYpoleon has faced challenges in his life, from his childhood in Trinidad where he saw many of his friends killed or imprisoned, to surviving an near fatal fall and head injury, which left him hospitalized and in critical condition. Although still mentally scarred from these and other experiences, he would later physically recover with a new purpose to life. “After being through all I’ve been through, it’s easy to have a negative perspective of life. But I now believe my unfortunate experiences happened for a reason, and that is for me to share my story with the world. My music is my therapy. It heals the wounds and my fans feel my pain. It’s real” says the R&B singer. He then decided to move to New Jersey to pursue a music career. He used his own money and recorded several songs and mixtapes, which created buzz on the streets and led to a role in the independent film “Demo”. Continuing from these successes, he continued recording new material, which led to his debut album “The Warm Up”.