Teddy Swims

Jaten Dimsdale, known by his moniker, Teddy Swims, is an American singer and songwriter from Atlanta, GA.

Swims grew up navigating different worlds: he was a football player, a musical theater student and the grandson of a Pentecostal pastor. Swims was exposed to a wider variety of music than most “country boys”. In high school and over the next few years he was in several bands, genres ranging from 80’s hair metal, funk, modern metalcore, soul, and country alternative bands. These experiences make Teddy who he is as an artist.

In March of 2019, Swims went on his first US tour as a hip-hop artist with his best friend Addy Maxwell, which he describes as freeing experience, as he was able to continue to expand into uncharted territory. With this in mind, Swims began to explore integrating the various genres he loved: metal, pop-punk, soul/funk, country, gospel, r&b, and show-tunes, into one genre that is Teddy Swims.

Swims is the accumulation of past projects. Swims stands for: someone who isn’t me sometimes, a reference to Swims' struggle to integrate the different parts of himself. For Swims, the goal is to break barriers and bring people together. About the project, Swims says, “There are no categories, no stereotypes, no statistic is a definite number. Until we learn to see every person as an individual, we will never truly reach unity.”