Jesse comes from a musical family and an environment rich with indigenous multicultural traditional music. Jesse holds a BSc (Chemistry) degree from the University of Witwatersrand. He later sacrificed the periodic table for music notes when he decided to leave the mining industry (gold refining) to focus on music performance and providing the much-needed music education to disadvantaged black children in Mamelodi. He co-founded CAFCA (Committed Artists For Cultural Advancement is a community based, not-for-profit music education organization providing music theory and musical instrument mastery to school going youth in and around the township of Mamelodi, a township in the east of Pretoria), with his brother Moss and his continued search for knowledge led to the discovery of the ISB (International Society of Bassists). A multi-award winner, he has released 5 albums to date.