Jay Sean
Kamal Jit-Singh Jhooti, or simply Jay Sean, is a British-American singer that began his singing career in mid 2003. He was on steady path to fame, however got his first big break with being signed to Cash Money Records in 2008. In 2009, his American debut single “Down” featuring Cash Money frontman Lil Wayne, topped the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first solo artist of South Asian origin and first UK urban act to top the Hot 100. It was the seventh-best selling song of 2009, having sold more than 3 million copies in the United States that year, by the end of the year, it reached 6 million sales in the United States, making him the most successful British/European male urban artist in US chart history at the time. It was the lead single for his debut album, All Or Nothing. He had a plethora of follow up singles, the most successful of which being “Do You Remember” featuring Lil Jon & Sean Paul, “2012” featuring Nicki Minaj, and “Mars” featuring Rick Ross.