Having been talent-spotted she was whisked off to the BRIT School and graduated in the same year as Adele and Leona Lewis while Amy Winehouse was also on the scene.
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A six-time MOBO Award winner and Grammy nominee her six World Music Awards prove the depth of her appeal the latter is based on worldwide sales figures, and those are huge.īorn Jessica Ellen Cornish in 1988 in suburban East London (Essex as was) the kid from the Hainault Loop was a gifted young musician and aspiring performer who joined the National Youth Music Theatre and won Best Pop Singer on the TV show Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies in 2003. Her celebrated live appearances include Glastonbury 2011 (where she performed on a gilded throne with her leg in a cast after she’d ruptured tendons in her foot), the Diamond Jubilee Concert in London and, perhaps most prestigiously, at the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, accompanying Queen on “We Will Rock You” and also singing four of her own hits.
She has collaborated with David Guetta, Queen, James Morrison, Mary J. Sure, it comes with the territory but there is an old-school professionalism and hard work ethic that drives her forward. But celeb status is not really what she is about. That she’d co-written Miley’s “Party in the U.S.A.” didn’t go unnoticed in the land of opportunity, while her ever-expanding UK fan base – the Heartbeats, as she calls them – took her on as a valid role model, a phrase often-bandied and frequently misused, but definitely applicable in her case.Īside from her own studio and live work Jessie J entered millions of homes on prime time BBC1 Saturday night entertainment when her stint as a judge and mentor on The Voice covered all the remaining bases. Even hard to impress American critics were glad to admit that her powerhouse vocal delivery and songwriting acumen were a force of nature. 2014’s Sweet Talker lived up to the title and suggested Ms J was en route to becoming Britain’s answer to Katy Perry or Pink – no problem since she is a fan of both artists. The next disc, Alive, brushed up equally well with a superb blend of electro-pop, confident R&B and a hip hop sensibility that heralded a phenomenon at large. Billboard Hot 100 and she became the first British female artist to have six top ten entries from a studio album. The track “Domino” sent her global as it crashed into the U.S. Blessed with bags of charisma and a highly individual sense of style she also had the Midas Touch since the debut album, Who You Are, ringing with more empowering anthems for the dance floor and radio, took off on the same trajectory. Up and running, her next single “Price Tag” went one better in the UK and elsewhere and Jessie J’s name was the one to drop. That hot tack was punted to Rihanna but the cut’s breezy hip hop beats and solid rock riffs were so striking she was advised to release it for her own benefit.
She came into the fold at Universal Republic bearing the debut hit single, “Do It Like a Dude”, which shot to the second spot in the UK in early 2011 and won the Best Song award at the 2011 Mobo Awards. A graduate of the famous BRIT School her first triumphs were in penning material for Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. The English-born singer, songwriter and all-round celebrity entertainer, Jessie J is a modern success story who has packed an incredible amount of good stuff into her career despite being a mere 27 years old.
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