Age 4 he Had Learned To Play The Guitar ,And By 5yrs Old He Was Playing The Drums, Mostly Learning "Blues Songs" Like "You Dont Have To Go" By Blues Ledgend Jimmy Reed" & "Blues In F"-Those Were The Songs he Learned To Play & Sings At That Age, However Joseph Really Started His career in 1968 after moving to Salina, Kansas with his family. At age 12 Joseph Alan Fears began as a bass guitar player & singer, performing with various well known R&B bands . From 1970-1974 joseph performed with a band called "Kool-Sat & the Second Breeze" and recorded There first song "How Does it Feel", although, the song was written by all of the band members-Albert Whitaker(drums) Mythias Wright(guitar & vocals) & Micheal Jackson(organ). Back in 1970, Joseph was the first to join (bmi) & copyright the tune in 1976. In 1978 Joseph began recording his own songs on his own record labels(Jaff records(USA). He released' Picture of Love" in 1985 "Some Things Never Change" in 1987, "Back Where I Belong" in 1994 "Urban Traffic Jazz" in 1998, "Creations" in 2000, "Himisfears" in 2001, "Layin it on the Line" in 1988, "Flavorizum" in 2000, "The prophet" in 2002, "Lady" in 2003, "Don't Step on my Blues" in 2004, "Zafaja band live featuring Joseph Alan Fears" in 2005. In 2008 he released the cd" Retroperspectives", in 2009 "Never Gonna Fall Again" and "All By Myself" followed in 2010. "Live at Oakdale Park" was released in 2011 and "Tap Out That Jazz" in 2012.