Jess Glynne
Jess Glynne
Jessica Hannah "Jess" Glynneis an English singer and songwriter, signed to Atlantic Records. She rose to prominence as a featured artist on Clean Bandit's Grammy Award winning single "Rather Be" and Route 94's "My Love", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2014. Her debut solo single, "Right Here", reached the top ten the same year...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 October 1989
CityHampstead, England
brought family good jewish
I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
photos straight takes time
I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.
favourite love secret
I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven't done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it's one of my favourite things.
focused hard inspires lyric writers
I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.
brought positive sad
We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.
cool people
When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
instrument traumatic
It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
list
I've got quite a few inspirations - the list is kind of endless!
family half
The fact that I'm on 'Essex Anthems' makes me happy, especially because half of my family's from Essex.
decides harvest stop
When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
few grammy pinnacle
There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.
best music stand
You need to be different and stand out. You need to have a message. For me, it didn't come easily. The best advice I was ever given, though, is go away and write 100 songs. You need to find the music that's you.
imitate note obsessed riff singers
I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
aretha inspired jay people sound
My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.