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JXN (musician)

Australian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ84266654
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Jackson Brazier (born 30 June 1993), who performs as JXN, is an Australian R&B and pop music singer-songwriter-guitarist and internet personality. He issued his debut six-track extended play, Never a Sad Adventure, in May 2020.

Career

JXN had a following on Instagram as Jacko Brazier, prior to signing with Warner Music Australasia. In November 2018 he released his debut single, "Solitude". He followed with three singles in 2019, "Red Lights" featuring A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, in April; "Going Off" featuring ASAP Twelvyy, in June; and "Just Okay" in October.

He released his debut extended play, Never a Sad Adventure, in May 2020. Thomas Bleach felt, "his smooth RNB stylings injected with a fresh breeze of alt-pop... resonated with listeners and created an insane hype." Acid Stag's Chris Salcie observed, "the organic and electronic instrumentation utilised blend with absolute ease across the six track offering."

Touring

Jackson supported Allday on the latter's Starry Night Over the Phone 2019 nationwide tour.

Discography

Extended plays

Basketball career

Brazier is also a semi-professional basketball player, having played in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) for the Kilsyth Cobras between 2014 and 2016. He re-joined the Cobras in 2021 after a four-year hiatus to play in the NBL1 South.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “JXN (musician)” as australian musician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2020, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-06-30. The account is most persuasive where musician and Australian can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q84266654. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2020, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from JXN (musician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.