Book Josh Kelley for colleges, corporate events, fairs, festivals, casinos & private shows. Contact Degy Entertainment for booking info.
Josh Kelley is a singer-songwriter who has spent a career moving between pop, rock, blues rock and country without ever fully leaving any of them behind. He broke through early. "Amazing" reached number five on the pop charts in 2001 and finished the year as the most played song on pop radio, the kind of start that usually decides what an artist does next. Kelley went the other way. The records that followed traced a slow drift south, from the rock-leaning Backwoods in 2008 to Georgia Clay in 2011, a title that says plainly where his writing had settled.
He comes by that title honestly. Kelley was born Joshua Bishop Kelley on January 30, 1980, in Augusta, Georgia, and the pop-and-rock instincts he grew up with never quite crowded out the country in the songwriting. He works as a solo artist under his own name, which means the catalog reads as one voice rather than a series of reinventions, from Special Company in 2009 through Just Say the Word in 2013.
His songs have also had a second life on screen. The TV series Smallville used his material, as did the films 27 Dresses and Picture This, and music that has already carried a scene tends to carry a room. That combination, pop rock hooks with blues rock guitar and country writing underneath, makes Kelley a practical booking for college dates, corporate events, fairs and festivals, casino stages and private events, where a familiar chorus does as much work as a headline.
