Jo- Jo's musical roots are in Jazz and the Classics -his musical sojourns however have afforded him involvement with and appreciation of the Pop-Music culture. Today he is one of the genre's top Icon and a pioneering exponent of the R & B Soul, Neo-Soul and Reggae segments.

Joseph. JO-JO" Bennett officially began his musical career at the age of 10 when he enrolled at Alpha Boys' School in Kingston, Jamaica to begin formal studies in Jazz and the Classics. He began playing the drums but made a voluntary switch soon after to playing the trumpet. He became very proficient in musical theory in general and a long time before graduation he was allowed by the Institution to instruct new arrivals in musical theory and practice. After graduation he played as lead trumpeter with the Jamaica Military Band for quite a while. His classical music involvement after training was short as JO-JO was being aggressively pursued to perform on the Pop Circuit by the Caribbean leading orchestras.