DEEJAY YOUNG is a singer-songwriter, actor, & performer, hailing from Tampa, Florida. He began his professional career at the age of five in the Gospel-theatrical circuit, & has since emerged within the entertainment industry as an independent recording artist & multi-award-winning entertainer. In 2019, he joined the First National Tour of HAMILTON as a principal standby & later made his Broadway debut starring as Aaron Burr for a limited run in New York City.
He was also a featured contestant on Season 24 of the EMMY® winning reality competition series, The Voice on NBC as part of Team Legend. His recent albums PRIMITIVE & The Primitive Sessions: Live both reached the Top 10 of the Top R&B Albums Charts on iTunes, & his Holiday album An Unplugged Christmas was a Best Seller on Amazon Music. To date, he’s received four Independent Music Awards, two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARAs), as well a Tampa Bay Theatre Award & two Broadway World Awards for his regional theatre contributions.
He was also recognized as BEST SOUL ACT in Orlando Weekly's Readers’ Choice Poll in 2024 & released his directorial debut & music film, HISstory: PRIMITIVE, now streaming exclusively on Tubi. Young is also an avid member of the Recording Academy & his latest album ECLIPSE is the third fully original work in his discography.
Discography: "The Rebirth" (2013), "Unplugged" (2016), "An Unplugged Christmas" (2017), PRIMITIVE (2020) *Top 5 R&B Albums U.S. iTunes Chart, Top 200 iTunes Global Albums Chart, Amazon Best Seller; The Primitive Sessions: Live (2021) *Top 10 R&B Albums U.S. iTunes Chart; “ECLIPSE” (2026)