J.D. Fortune

Rock Star: INXS/INXS Fortune was living in his car, under a bridge,

INXS, with Fortune, released their only album of original content with him, Switch in November 2005. Three singles from the album were released over the next twelve months including the track "Pretty Vegas" which was co-written by Fortune and INXS's Andrew Farriss, amongst others. The week of 25 February 2006, "Pretty Vegas" reached its highest charting at Number 7 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks.

On 16 February 2009, Fortune revealed in an interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada that INXS fired him from the band with a handshake at a Hong Kong airport. Fortune admitted to heavy cocaine use during the latest INXS tour and acknowledged that his drug habit had likely contributed to INXS's decision. Fortune stated he had been off cocaine for the past two years; at the time, he was living out of his car and had put all his remaining money into his solo album The Death of a Motivational Speaker. Former INXS manager and now record company head Chris Murphy responded at the time by saying that Fortune had never been fired by the band, but that the band was reluctant to continue working with him because of the drug-use allegations.

However, later in 2010, Fortune performed with INXS several times. On 24 February 2010, Fortune performed with INXS at the Vancouver Olympics in a sold-out performance. On 10 July 2010, INXS, fronted by Fortune, performed at an outdoor concert for an estimated 13,000 people at the 2010 Sucrogen Townsville 400 in Townsville, Australia. On 16 July 2010, Fortune fronted INXS at an outdoor concert at the Mangrove Resort in Broome, Western Australia. On 1 September 2010, Fortune and INXS performed before 17,000 attendees of VMware's 2010 VMWorld at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. On 25 September 2010, INXS and Fortune headlined the pre-match entertainment at the AFL Grand Final Event in Melbourne, Australia. During a radio interview prior to the performance in Broome, Western Australia, Kirk Pengilly confirmed that Fortune was a permanent member of INXS.

On September 29, 2010, INXS announced an Australian tour for early 2011. The tour, with JD Fortune, included eight performances across Australia from 25 January 2011 to 12 February 2011. This was followed by three performances in South America: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Santiago, Chile and Iquique, Chile in February 2011. JD Fortune and INXS returned to Canada for a performance at the Sound Academy in Toronto Ontario on 2 March 2011.

On 19 October 2010, INXS released the single "The Stairs", featuring Fortune (the original version of "The Stairs" had appeared on INXS' 1990 album, X) on iTunes Canada. This tune was followed by the November 2010 release of an album of primarily previously released songs as performed by a number of artists. The album, Original Sin, was released in Australia and Canada. A bonus track, "Love Is" with Fortune was released in Australia through iTunes.

In 2011, INXS with Fortune completed shows in Australia, UK, Portugal, South America, Canada, and the United States. In September 2011, Fortune and INXS announced that they had mutually agreed to go their separate ways and pursue different artistic projects. Later Fortune said, "I had no idea I had left INXS the second time to be honest with you. I woke up 18 August and I had to find out from their web site, which, to this day, I still find bizarre."

Solo music In March 2010, Fortune announced that a previously unreleased solo work, entitled "One More Day", would be used in CBS television on-air campaign for a new television series Miami Medical. The series aired on 2 April 2010. "One More Day" is a previously unreleased track from a new CD that is being worked on.

On 10 July 2012, he played his first live performance for the public with his band Fortune. Some of the members of Fortune are fellow Canadians from the band Crush Luther. The show was at Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

On 4 March 2014, he began the "Seven in 7: Los Angeles" project, writing, recording, producing and releasing a new song each day for seven days and another in 2015, "Seven in 7: Ontario". Two Seven in 7 albums were released through Red Rebel Music.

On 6 January 2015, Fortune signed with manager Gerry Pass of Chrome Artists Management in Los Angeles.