Jerome Brooks Jr.

Jerome Brooks, Jr. is an ASCAP Plus 2025 Award Recipient. He performed as the featured artist on piano at New York Theatre Workshop’s Nat “King” Cole Night after the Off-Broadway show Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole. He released SONGS FOR MOM in 2025, featuring Grammy Winner & Tony Award Nominee Natasha Yvette Williams, in memory of his late mother. This project was Mastered By Mark B. Christensen, who has mastered for Toni Braxton, Fergie, Boyz II Men, The Killers, SZA, Trey Songz, and 50 Cent. He joined the Recording Academy as a Voting Member in 2008 & has written, produced, engineered, & performed as an Artist on over a dozen projects across various genres, including Progressive R&B, Gospel, Musical Theater, Pop & Urbano Latino, which are available on all streaming platforms. He’s done studio work with Emmy Winner RuPaul, and co-wrote the 2011 Musical Soundtrack Love Happened By Chance, featuring Ayana George from MJ on Broadway. 

Tony Winner Tonya Pinkins directed staged readings of his show COMMITTED The Musical at Musical Theatre Factory & Emerging Artists Theatre. He’s a 2022 Outstanding Musical Director AUDELCO Award Nominee for BLACK LOVE at the Black Spectrum Theatre. His big-screen debut was as Josh McKee in Art = (Love) ². He was the Dueling Piano Player in Amazon’s Z: The Beginning Of Everything. He was the Choir Director & Vocal Arranger for POWER Season 5 Episode 1. He was the 2020 recipient of the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and a 2021 City Artist Corps Grant Recipient for his musical SOCIAL DISTANCE, which had a sold-out one-night presentation at The Players Theatre. He can be seen as the keyboardist in commercials and on the cover of the Rock Band 3 video game.

Jerome is a member of The Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA & AEA with a BFA in Music Theatre /Piano Minor from Shenandoah University Conservatory. Off-Broadway, he contributed additional arrangements to Grammy & Tony Winner Duncan Sheik’s Mother Courage and Her Children. He performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center as a New Song Original Music Finalist, LA’s Taste of Soul Festival, The Apollo, The Triad, Iguana Club, Sugar Bar, Symphony Space, AUDELCO Awards, in Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Austria, and Turkey. All of his compositions are available to stream.

“Jerome fits nicely with the 70’s Stevie, Donny & Marvin. I feel his lovely southern soul on this beautiful debut album. I’m committed!”

-RuPaul, CD Baby Review for Committed 2007 (Multiple Emmy Award Winner)

“Wonderful music, a treat for aficionados of all genres!”

-Wouter Kellerman, Apple iTunes Review for MultiGenre Music 2017 (Multiple Grammy Award Winner)

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https://museonline.org/profile/jerome-brooks-jr/  

https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Jerome-Brooks-Jr/ 

https://www.discogs.com/artist/5967767-Jerome-Brooks 

https://www.vampr.me/artist/jeromebrooksjr 

https://www.poetictheater.com/?s=jerome+brooks 

https://www.threads.net/@jeromebrooksjractor 

https://www.tiktok.com/@azeyol 

https://www.su.edu/alumni/alumni-news/alumni-profiles/jerome-g-brooks-jr-02/ 

https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2022/04/25/celebrating-earth-day-in-song-0800pm 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Musical-Theatre-Composer-Jerome-Brooks-Jr-Recognized-with-City-Artists-Corp-Grant-20210909