Dumas is from Gibraltar (a territory of the United Kingdom), Harvey is from Scotland and the four others hail from the United States. On top of their musical compatibility, the guys formed a strong friendship early on, bonding over their highly varied upbringings. Looking back on that year, I wouldn’t have done anything differently,” Jervis reflects. “It’s been a little over a year since we started playing music. Many of them had already made names for themselves as solo artists, but there was no guarantee that there would be musical chemistry between them. The other members include Caleb Miller, Austin Luther, Simon Dumas, Chris Deaton and Jordan Harvey. They were a group of six guys from three different countries. “We got into a practice room to see if a band could happen.” “When we first got together, we were just trying to figure out whether a band could work,” he says. Jervis returned to Berklee in September 2017, but was pulled away once again, this time to Nashville where King Calaway was born. He left school after two semesters to tour the country with a previous project, rock band The House on Cliff. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in songwriting. In the years after graduating from Cab Calloway, Jervis was working to answer that question. Attending Cab Calloway School of the Arts and being a member of the Wilmington Drama League allowed him to express himself creatively and find out what kind of a musician he wanted to be.Ī post shared by King Calaway on at 4:27pm PST He credits his upbringing in Delaware with shaping much of his career and musical perspective. “Around then is when I started to realize that there wasn’t anything else that I wanted to do with my life besides play music,” Jervis says. He began to write songs at around 12, and by the time he reached high school he was performing his own original songs at shows throughout the state. The more Jervis began to embrace music, he began to realize that he could make a career out of music of his own.

“I think my first goal for my career in music was to be an Elvis impersonator when I was 8 or 9.”

“I discovered Elvis Presley at a very young age,” he recalls. But Jervis’ love of music goes back much further than that. Since then, the group has opened for Garth Brooks, played at the Grand Ole Opry and performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”-not bad for a band only in existence for a little over a year. The 24-year-old joined up-and-coming pop country group King Calaway in May of last year after being brought on by country music producer Robert Deaton. In all respects, Wilmington native Chad Michael Jervis is just getting started.

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