JON VINYL

About

The artist

JON VINYL is an independent R&B and soul singer-songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario. His artist-operated website identifies Toronto as his home city and traces his development from a home studio built during his teens to the release of his first single, Nostalgia, in 2017. The official biography credits his brother Jamil Hamilton with encouraging the project and taking on its management. Vinyl’s writing focuses on relationships, longing, vulnerability, and emotional clarity, supported by guitar figures, soft synthesizers, and contemporary R&B production. The project’s exact Spotify identity contains forty primary release containers from October 2017 through July 2025: two albums, one EP, and thirty-seven singles. The eight-song album Lost In You arrived in 2021, followed by the five-song EP PALISADE in 2022 and the eight-song Heartbreak Hill in 2023. A steady series of 2024 singles included You Don’t Call Me, Closure, Fold, War, Feels Good, and Nothing Like Christmas. Dopamine and its two-song acoustic edition extended the catalog in 2025. Apple Music independently matches the catalog and identifies Toronto and Pickering as the project’s Ontario roots. Lost In You received a 2022 JUNO nomination for Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year. PALISADE followed with a 2023 nomination, and Heartbreak Hill received a 2024 nomination in the contemporary R&B field. The official website remains active in 2026 with music, touring, shop, social, and contact sections. Its contact page names Jamil Hamilton as manager and provides a public inquiry form, allowing MusicList to route professional requests without republishing the displayed email address. No private contact information is retained. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.