OJR is Oliver John-Rodgers, an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, producer, and model. 

After relocating from New York to Nashville, he self-produced a collection of lo-fi demos, called Nashville Demos, intended to be shopped to publishers and labels. Instead, these recordings were released independently, and soon went on to receive widespread airplay on—and considerably high praise from—Triple-A radio stations across America, instantly putting OJR on the national radar with interviews by NPR and Rolling Stone. Little more than a year after releasing Nashville Demos, OJR was headlining indie-radio festivals throughout the country and seeing extensive nationwide touring, in support of artists like Grace Potter, The Black Angels, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Railroad Earth, and Galactic. The continued reach of these demos—including over 5 million streams on Spotify alone—is testament to the profound quality of songwriting, melodies, arrangements, and lyricism present in OJR’s work.

Aside from some of the more obvious influences to be found throughout his catalog (John Lennon, Pink Floyd, and Bob Dylan come to mind), OJR shows no regard for specializing in any one style, and has spent 15 years self-recording and self-releasing music in genres as disparate as country, metal, psych-rock, French pop, shoegaze, hip hop, Latin, and house. 

In 2020, OJR has produced music for Swarovski, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jimmy Choo, Timberland, and Cara Delevingne, scoring short films and ad campaigns in high fashion.

As a model, he has appeared in Vogue Italia, HERO magazine, and, most recently, in ads for Chobani.

OJR studied creative writing and foreign languages at NYU, and has recorded songs in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin.