Jelly Roll at the Videotron Center next summer

The manager of the amphitheater, Gestev, presented a projection on Friday on the giant outdoor screen of the Center with the words “Not a “Liar”», Liar being the title of the rapper-turned-country singer’s latest hit.

The presentation also includes an image taken from the album cover Beautifully Brokenwhich Jelly Roll just launched in October, with the mention “Announcement Tuesday”. The image was also shared on the Videotron Center Facebook page with the date Tuesday, November 12, 2024.

Jelly Roll will already be in Quebec on August 15 as the headliner of the Lasso country festival, organized by evenko at Parc Jean-Drapeau, so it is very likely that he will make a detour to the capital at that time.

Meteoric success

The singer whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord has enjoyed meteoric success since 2022, while his piece Son of a Sinner climbed to number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned him three Country Music Television Music Awards. The piece was taken from the album Ballads of the Brokenlaunched in 2022, where Jelly Roll had begun to include rock and country to the hip-hop that had been its stock in trade for two decades.

Then, his albums Whitsitt Chapel et Beautifully Brokenreleased in the space of 15 months in June 2023 and October 2024, took a clearly country tangent to climb to third and first position respectively on the Billboard 200.

Redemption

A native of Tennessee, the 39-year-old artist also has a beautiful story of redemption. He had in fact experienced several run-ins with the law and spent time in prison in the early 2000s while selling illegal drugs.

It was behind bars that he got his act together and obtained his high school diploma at the age of 23. In January, he testified before the U.S. Congress in support of anti-fentanyl legislation. “I was part of the problem, I’m here now as a man who wants to be part of the solution,” he told the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.