Today we’d like to introduce you to Joshua Jackson.
Hi Joshua, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I actually got my start before I was five years old. Someone would come into my daycare and offer music classes, and that early exposure sparked something in me. What started as a childhood experience became a gift and passion that continued to grow with me.
As I got older, I kept learning, playing, and experimenting with different sounds. I learned to play by ear and eventually realized that my gift went beyond playing instruments—I could create, arrange, and produce music as well. Piano became a major part of my foundation, and over time I expanded into guitar and music production.
My journey hasn’t been a straight line. I have a full life outside of music, working and taking care of everyday responsibilities while continuing to build creatively. Through every season, though, music has always found its way back to the center of my life.
Today, I’m becoming more intentional about what I do with the gift God gave me. Whether I’m producing, playing, teaching someone else, or creating something from an idea in my head, I want the music to mean something. I’m still growing and discovering where this journey will take me, but ultimately, I want what I create to connect with people, encourage them, and leave them feeling something real.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. One of my biggest struggles has been learning how to balance the gift with real life. There have been seasons where work, responsibilities, family, and simply doing what needed to be done had to take priority, and music sometimes had to take a back seat.
I’ve also had to work through moments of questioning myself and wondering what music was supposed to look like for me. When you’ve had a gift since you were a child, sometimes it can be easy to overlook it because it has always been there. I had to learn not to compare my journey to anyone else’s or feel like I was behind because my path looked different.
What I’ve realized is that none of those seasons were wasted. Even when I wasn’t pursuing music the way I thought I should be, I was still growing as a man, learning discipline, developing my character, and gaining life experiences that now show up in the way I create.
My faith has also played a major role in keeping me grounded. I’m learning to trust God’s timing and understand that the gift doesn’t disappear just because the journey takes a different route. Now I’m in a place where I’m giving myself permission to take my music seriously, share more of what I can do, and see where the gift can take me.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m a pianist and music producer. Piano has been the foundation of my musical journey since I was introduced to music as a young child, and over the years that foundation naturally developed into producing.
As a producer, one of my strengths is being able to hear music beyond what’s already there. I can hear an idea, a melody, a progression, or even just a feeling and begin building around it. A lot of my creativity happens naturally by ear. I enjoy taking something that may start as a simple idea on the piano and developing it into a complete sound.
I also teach private piano lessons, and that has become something I’m especially proud of. Music was introduced to me before I was five years old through someone who came into my daycare to teach, so being able to now introduce and teach piano to someone else feels full circle.
What sets me apart is the way I connect the piano with production. I don’t just want to play music—I want to understand it, create it, and shape how it makes someone feel. I’m proud that after all these years, I’m still growing in my craft and becoming more intentional about allowing people to hear what I’m capable of as both a pianist and producer.
We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
One of my favorite childhood memories was learning that my grandmother could play the piano. As a child already developing my own love for the piano, finding out that she could sit down and play made me feel connected to her in a completely different way.
As I got older, I also started learning about other people in my family who had musical gifts—people who could play, hear music naturally, or just had an ear for it. It made me realize that music wasn’t something that started with me. In a way, it was already woven into my family.
My grandmother is no longer here, so that memory means even more to me today. There’s something special about sitting at the piano now and knowing that my hands are touching the same type of keys hers once did. I carry that with me.
Looking back, I think discovering her gift helped me understand my own differently. Music feels like part of my family’s legacy, and I’m grateful that I get to continue it, build on it, and hopefully pass that same love for music on to someone else.
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