Ronald Jenkees

Jenkees began releasing beats and raps online under the nickname "Big Cheez" around 2003. With the name, he produced the 2005 album Strait Laced by Fish. In 2006, Jenkees posted funny videos on YouTube and later started uploading music-related videos. The videos usually feature him wearing a hat and greeting his viewers by saying, "Hello YouToobs!". His videos gradually gained popularity, particularly after Bill Simmons from ESPN.com featured Jenkees and asked him to record his podcast theme, and again after being "thumbed up" by members of the StumbleUpon community. In 2007, Jenkees independently released his first studio album, Ronald Jenkees.

In June 2009, he was featured on the STS9 (Sound Tribe Selector 9) album, Peaceblaster: The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes, producing a remix of "Beyond Right Now". On July 31, 2009, he released his second album, Disorganized Fun. Days Away came out in 2012,[http://leoweekly.com/music/hello-leos-ronald-jenkees-returns Hello, LEOs! Ronald Jenkees returns | Louisville's Alt-Weekly | LEO Weekly]{{Cite web |url=http://www.goodishmusic.com/2012/12/ronald-jenkees-early-morning-may-stream.html |title=Ronald Jenkees – Early Morning May (Stream) {{!}} Good(ish) Music |access-date=February 3, 2015 |archive-date=December 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218064634/http://www.goodishmusic.com/2012/12/ronald-jenkees-early-morning-may-stream.html |url-status=dead }} Alpha Numeric in 2014,{{cite web|url=http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/2014/11/05/new-album-alpha-numeric/|title=New Album: Alpha Numeric}} and Rhodes Deep in April 2017. A selection of music from his first two albums is included in the Iridium Studios game "Before the Echo" (previously known as "Sequence").

{{BLP unreferenced section|date=September 2020}}

Jenkees creates a variety of music ranging from electronic music to hip-hop to rock and roll using pianos, keyboards, and various PC-controlled electronic synthesizers. He uses keyboard and synthesizer synthetic voices to add a variety of instruments to the tracks. The result is a combination of rock and roll with techno or trance-influenced rock opera. In some of his YouTube videos, he plays the harmonica in his slower tempo songs. Jenkees is distinguished in his videos by the array of hats he wears, his thick glasses, and his distinctive voice. Besides playing the keyboard, he also sings.

; Solo albums

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Ronald Jenkees (2007)

| title1 = Derty

| length1 = 3:23

| title2 = Neptune

| length2 = 3:23

| title3 = Canon in D Remix

| length3 = 3:17

| title4 = Clutter

| length4 = 4:16

| title5 = Super-Fun

| length5 = 3:41

| title6 = The Rocky Song Remixed

| length6 = 2:19

| title7 = Snap

| length7 = 4:00

| title8 = The Sunfish Song

| length8 = 2:43

| title9 = Loui

| length9 = 3:19

| title10 = Gold Spinners

| length10 = 3:40

| title11 = Remix to a Remix

| length11 = 4:07

| title12 = Almost Undamaged

| length12 = 4:44

| title13 = 56K (rap)

| length13 = 3:00

| title14 = Ain't No Thang (rap)

| length14 = 3:22

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = "Disorganized Fun" (2009)

| title1 = Disorganized Fun

| length1 = 4:10

| title2 = Fifteen Fifty

| length2 = 4:34

| title3 = Guitar Sound

| length3 = 7:00

| title4 = Synth One

| length4 = 3:31

| title5 = Throwing Fire

| length5 = 4:52

| title6 = Minimal MC

| length6 = 2:43

| title7 = Stay Crunchy

| length7 = 4:06

| title8 = Inverted Mean

| length8 = 4:02

| title9 = Outer Space

| length9 = 5:02

| title10 = Let's Ride (rap)

| length10 = 3:04

| title11 = It's Gettin Rowdy (rap)

| length11 = 3:14

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Days Away (2012)

| title1 = Magnetic Moment

| length1 = 5:06

| title2 = Speaker 1, Speaker 1

| length2 = 4:08

| title3 = Sidetracked

| length3 = 5:22

| title4 = Early Morning May

| length4 = 4:05

| title5 = Supercell in Tune

| length5 = 2:46

| title6 = With Water and Light

| length6 = 1:30

| title7 = 7 Times

| length7 = 5:56

| title8 = Red Lemonade

| length8 = 5:12

| title9 = Days Away

| length9 = 3:33

| title10 = Deep-Sea Sounding

| length10 = 2:57

| title11 = Error Me Out

| length11 = 5:34

| title12 = Piano Wire

| length12 = 3:35

| title13 = Simpletank

| length13 = 3:37

| title14 = From The Arrow Loop

| length14 = 5:05

| title15 = Red Lemonade Remixed

| length15 = 4:29

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Alpha Numeric (2014)

| title1 = Synergetics

| length1 = 4:15

| title2 = Filter In

| length2 = 3:34

| title3 = In Blue

| length3 = 4:33

| title4 = Mr. Mac

| length4 = 4:26

| title5 = Echo Out

| length5 = 4:21

| title6 = Alpha Numeric

| length6 = 3:45

| title7 = Hotel Midi

| length7 = 3:52

| title8 = 103 Degrees

| length8 = 4:37

| title9 = Slow To Spring

| length9 = 3:32

| title10 = Fall Drift

| length10 = 4:50

| title11 = All The Circles

| length11 = 3:51

| title12 = Dream Happy

| length12 = 2:36

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Try The Bass (2015)

| title1 = Try The Bass

| length1 = 4:59

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Rhodes Deep (2017)

| title1 = Rhodes Deep

| length1 = 4:06

| title2 = Dr. Goose Robbins

| length2 = 5:14

| title3 = Expensive Ice Chill Cuts Deluxe

| length3 = 4:58

| title4 = Arp Island

| length4 = 4:07

| title5 = So Alive

| length5 = 2:50

| title6 = So Alive (Instrumental)

| length6 = 2:50

| title7 = Unusual Weather

| length7 = 4:06

| title8 = Spearmint

| length8 = 4:43

| title9 = Try The Bass

| length9 = 4:59

| title10 = Aquatic Jambiance

| length10 = 5:12

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Mindful (2017)

| title1 = Mindful

| length1 = 4:35

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Sky Tied (2019)

| title1 = Sky Tied

| length1 = 3:55

}}

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| headline = Wonder And Flow (2023){{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odl9ksDGI00 | title=Ronald Jenkees - Wonder and Flow (Official Visualization) | website=YouTube | date=March 3, 2023 }}

| title1 = Wonder And Flow

| length1 = 5:03

}}

; Produced albums

• Fish: Straight Laced (as Big Cheez) (2005)

(Variations and updated versions of some songs on Straight Laced can be found on Jenkees' first album as instrumentals.)

; Appearances

• Sound Tribe Sector 9: Peaceblaster: The New Orleans Make It Right Remixes (track 29, "Beyond Right Now") in 2009{{cite web|url=http://sts9.com/?p=809|title=Remix Album Drops June 23}}
• Soundtrack for PC game Before The Echo (previously known as "Sequence") by Iridium Studios.{{cite web|url=http://www.playiridium.com/games|title=Iridium Studios - Games|access-date=October 29, 2011|archive-date=October 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030213041/http://www.playiridium.com/games|url-status=dead}}
• Soundtrack for There Came an Echo by Iridium Studios
• Kennedy Space Center Holidays in Space Rocket Garden Light Projection Show
• Music on hold when calling Google in North America{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ronaldjenkees/status/614570317080625152|title=Ronald Jenkees' Twitter|date=June 26, 2015 |access-date=2015-11-11}}
• "Sidetracked" is used as the intro and outro music in [https://linuxunplugged.com/ Linux Unplugged]{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxunplugged/comments/gasynd/linux_unplugged_theme_song/|title=Reddit - Linux Unplugged theme song|date=April 20, 2020 |access-date=2021-01-24}}

• List of YouTube celebrities

{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website|http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/}}
• {{YouTube|user=ronaldjenkees|Jenkees' YouTube channel}}
• [https://soundcloud.com/ronaldjenkees Official SoundCloud Page ]
• [http://ronaldjenkees.bandcamp.com/ Official Bandcamp Page ]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkees, Ronald}}

Category:Living people

Category:American male composers

Category:21st-century American composers

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:American male pianists

Category:21st-century American pianists

Category:21st-century American male musicians

Category:YouTubers from Kentucky