Joseph Henry Wandass IV, better known as J4™, is a Buffalo-born, Nashville-based recording artist, songwriter, and producer who has made a significant impact on the Nashville music scene for over the last decade. A versatile artist with a passion for his virtuosic compositions and storytelling, he has opened for/shared the stage with artists such as Josh Turner, Lee Greenwood, Michael W. Smith, Darryl Worley, Walker Hayes, The Tenors, and Cage the Elephant.

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One of Nashville’s premier performers, J4 is a local fan favorite who has performed such stages as The Listening Room Cafe, Schermerhorn Symphony Center (with The Tenors), The Bluebird Cafe, The Local, and The Roman Auditorium (with Cage the Elephant) to name a few. In 2025, J4 released his Debut EP entitled “Every Song About You,” his first major solo project, which was met with great critical reception. J4 has enjoyed over 25 movie placements in in 2025 alone, including a landmark project at Warner Chappell in which J4’s voice was featured in an internationally televised advertisement for Honda's "Happy Honda Days."

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J4 began his musical journey at age 10 performing on local stages. He moved to Nashville in 2014 to pursue his career and performed on Broadway in Nashville for many years until attending Belmont University in 2016 for commercial music performance. J4 earned a Bachelor’s (2020) and Master's (2022) in Commercial Music from Belmont University, where he honed his music performance and production skills while interning with Singing Success as a vocal intern and Nashville Cool Music as a track writer. His thesis entitled "Co-Writing Nashville Style, A Recital of Selected Country Songwriters" was published to the Belmont University Lila D Bunch Library in January of 2023. A copy is available here in the Lila D Bunch Digital Repository: "Co-Writing Nashville Style, A Recital of Selected Country Songwriters." His academic experience continued as an Adjunct Professor of Recording Industry Studies at Middle Tennessee State University (2025), where he instructed up and coming music professionals in piano instrumentation and commercial musicianship.

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J4 currently pursuing his career as a recording artist in Nashville, TN, and works as a a staff songwriter at Lucky Sky Music Publishing. He also serves as a voting board member of the non-profit Tennessee Songwriters Association International.

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