Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Jon began playing many instruments at an early age including bass, guitar and drums. He toured as a drummer with various Toronto-based bands before focusing on songwriting and his main instrument, the piano. He then spent two years at the University of Toronto studying jazz piano. It was there that he met some of the musicians that would make up the band "The Philosopher Kings". The band was quickly signed to Sony Music Canada and its eponymous debut was certified Gold. On this album, in addition to playing piano, Jon wrote and co-produced almost all of the material including the hit "Charms" which garnered the band a Juno for best new artist. The album was picked up by Columbia Records for release in the United States, where "Charms" became a Top 40 hit. The band's second album was certified Platinum and yielded the hits "Hurts to Love You", "I Am The Man" and "You Don't Love Me Like You Used To Do", all written by Jon Levine. This has established him as a highly coveted songwriter and producer.

While Jon loved producing and co-writing for others, he also had his own personal desire to write and produce for himself. He began by expanding outside of the band, producing and songwriting for a slew of established artists including Canada's own female MC Michie-Mee and Warner Bros recording artist Esthero. He then went on to produce a full-length album for BMG's R&B band Jacksoul and EMI Canada’s Amanda Stott. In addition to producing the albums he also wrote the number 1 hit song "Can't Stop" and the top 10 hit "Somedays" for Jacksoul. The album consequently won a Juno for best R&B/soul recording. He scored another hit with Canadian pop stars Sugar Jones with the song "How Much Longer" that he both wrote and produced, bringing this album to Platinum status.

Shortly thereafter he expanded his repertoire by working with Toronto-based rapper Jelleestone on his first full-length album "13", which Jon produced for Warner Bros America. He co-wrote and co-produced 11 of the 14 tracks on this album including the hit "Money (can't buy me happiness)". Levine also went to produced a track on Columbia recording artist Emma Roberts’ debut album, two songs for the American Popstars and a song on the Dreamworks release of "Whoa, Nelly" by Nelly Furtado, which has sold over six million records worldwide and earned her a Grammy Award are part of what has propelled Jon Levine to success in the past 6 years.

Most recently Jon has been working with Virgin Record’s priority R&B artist Kreesha Turner’s album, on which he has co-written and produced 7 songs. Due to Jon’s incredible direction Kreesha has had numerous synchs in Entourage, Gossip girl, Desperate Housewives, and the Hills, to name a few. He has also produced 12 songs on multi-platinum, Juno award winning pop sensation Fefe Dobson’s upcoming album. Jon is not about to slow down in his career. He has still found time to develop his own artist Anjulie, who similar to Kreesha, has picked up numerous music placements in hit TV shows like The City and the Hills. Jon also completed an album for her.

The first single off Ground Tied is "Happy", a track that shows the extent to which his fingers can literally fly over the piano keys. With the piano being a significant player on most of the songs on the album, he has managed to merge classical piano into a timeless yet soulfully pop rock sound.