Jewel Carter, better known in the music community as "JC," was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. Jewel's first love is the bass guitar, but has proven his proficiency as a vocalist, drummer, keyboardist, writer, arranger, composer, and producer. In over thirteen years of entertaining he has toured with such groups as: The Gap Band, Roger Troutman, Teena Marie, Bootsy Collins and Gladys Knight. As a studio musician, JC has laid down bass tracks for such artist as: TUPAC and SHAQ. He has participated in two motion picture sound tracks: Pharcyde's "Can't Stop the Music" from the movie Mr. Good Burger, and "Taste" from The 6th Man. JC continues to hone his craft and has ben dubbed the "The new King of Funk" by those he has entertained throughout the Western United States.