J Dia Bio

Julia Diaco “J-Dia” hails from Rumson, New Jersey. For most of her life, the possibilities of what lay on the other side of the Hudson River occupied her imagination. She first set foot on a stage at the age of five, took up vocal training at the age of seven, and wrote her first song at the age of nine. When she turned 17 and it came time to choose a college, she took another step in the same direction and was admitted to NYU.

Little could she have guessed that a year later, on April 29, 2004, that The Daily News would blare this headline—and that it would be about her: “From Luxe Life to High Life: Pot Princess Perky After Bust.” Media helicopters descended on her parents’ house, her father’s construction company was scrutinized, and she was accused of mob ties, “simply because [her] surname ends in a vowel.”

All her life, J-Dia has been a striver and a fighter, beginning with injuries from which she struggled to heal when she was only three years old and had to be rescued from a house fire. However, when she reached NYU, a series of unfortunate mishaps led her down a path she had never anticipated. Although she had been smoking marijuana for quite some time, she began to sell the drug in a dorm where drugs appeared to be the norm. In only her second semester of college, she was shocked to find herself at the center of a media firestorm.

Since the age of five, J-Dia has sought out the stage; she began working with a vocal coach when she was only seven years old and throughout her young life performed in community and school theatrical productions as well as participated in local talent shows. Today, at the age of 20, she is eager to finally set forth on her career as a singer—and as an entrepreneur.

Now, after ten months at a behavioral center (not a drug treatment facility) and eight months of vocational studies per court order—first in California and then back home in New Jersey—she is looking at five years of probation. However, J-Dia’s ten months provided her an opportunity to return to the music career she has dreamed of all her life. By the time Julia returned to the East Coast, she had an entire box filled with songs she had written. . J-Dia expresses, “This has been a lifelong goal; unfortunately I got lost along the way, and I’m glad to be back on the right track. If I could make this incident disappear, I’d do it in a heartbeat, but the media won’t let me.”

Today, she is hard at work on her first album, My Blue Heaven, taking J-Dia as a recording name. She is working on the album with Philadelphia-based producer Simon Illa (Vivian Green and Floetry; music for the Phillies’ baseball team, American Rap Stars Soundtrack) and has finished recording many songs. She cites her influences as Amerie, Mariah Carey, “the old Pink,” “the new Gwen Stefani,” and a smattering of oldies and rock. J-Dia is signed to Forget About It Music by C.E.O.Chris Cardillo, who offered her a percentage of the company as an incentive to sign. Upon meeting J-Dia, Cardillo dropped all his other pending projects knowing that J-Dia has everything it takes to be a successful music artist. In addition, by J-Dia accepting a stake in Forget About It Music, she has found the faith in herself to have greater creative control over her career than most young artists. Her first single, “I Won’t Tell,” features Styles P. and its video premiered on Inside Edition and Fox News.

J-Dia is eager to break her two year silence her attorneys advised at the time of the case; set the record straight and move forward with her life. She was both unable to give her side of what occurred during the investigation and to express her feelings about the media exploiting her as the “real-life Meadow Soprano.” Right now, she is excited to start making her mark on the music industry. In short, J-Dia believes she is on track towards finally being known for what she does best.