“Maybe it’s just been a while since I’ve played, but I feel like I’m enjoying it more than I ever did,” he said. Opportunities for performing shows have been scarce, but Roper said that’s making them all the sweeter. “For the little guys in the music industry, like myself, looking too far ahead is tough because it’s a big gamble and you can lose a lot of money,” he said.
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Getting songs on TV is a good avenue for Roper’s future, and takes away some of the financial risk of scheduling tours. The latest release, “Another Day Down,” was released Oct. His new album, finished before the pandemic, is currently being released song by song. Otherwise he just focuses on producing the music. Roper says the process is out of his hands and he gets a call when a deal is finalized and tries to catch the clip. Six months later I phone my manager and he says, ‘They just notified me and gave it to someone else.’ That kind of shit happens all the time.” It’s probably just delayed a little bit.’ And then two months later, it’s still not out. “After a month, I was like, ‘Okay, no big deal. “One commercial I had was going to play for a year throughout North America and I was like, “Oh my god, this is gonna change my life,” he said. It’s been a long wait for this breakthrough, as a number of similar deals for songs in TV shows and commercials have fallen through, he said. “A lot of the money is in this kind of stuff.” Making inroads into TV has helped during the pandemic, Roper said, not only as a resume booster but to help financially. So I lose money every time, like I’ve never made money on the tour,” Roper said.
“To travel in Canada you’ve got huge mileage in between towns. that focuses on getting songs played in TV shows. It was a long process, but he eventually signed a deal with Zinc Music, a company in the U.S. Roper’s manager has been working on getting his songs into TV shows for years. Shortly after, an excerpt from Brightside was heard on the CBS remake of The Equalizer starring Queen Latifah. The Metchosin-based singer/songwriter made a long-awaited breakthrough into TV recently, first having a clip of his song Horizons played on Netflix’s teen drama Riverdale. While he’s not able to perform on stage as often right now, people are still hearing Jesse Roper’s music.
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