Jeaneaux Xavier (J Encore) Cleavant Rigters was born on December 31, 1986, at a Bethlehem Hospital in The Hague.His Parents from Suriname but moved to the Netherlands, when J Encore was a baby. they moved several times. Jeaneaux Xavier Cleavant Rigters enjoyed writing listening to music and poems as a student playing with words, and as time went by he began writing lyrics inspired by self experiences and street life in his native where he grew up. At the age of 7 he played violin. Back in the day when we still had a cassettedeck.He used to record his raps on cassettes that he took from his Big Brother and with his Niece he did radioshows that were also recorded on the cassettes and the radio show was called juice. .When he was 11 Years he borrowed a 2pac cd from his older cousin . After listening to this work of art and the way 2pac expresses himself threw music with a message J Encore encountered music at a very young age, due to his family.His Grand Father was a Lead Singer.J Encore also began crafting his rapping skills at an early age: J Encore claims to have written his first verse when he was 11 years old, to the beat of 2Pac i wonder if heaven got a ghetto": "I was like, I can do this; I'll try it out. From that moment I've had a very keen interest in the whole craft. Being a big fan of words and making the real connection with them. Saying things that can make your minds eye open up.