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Jess has had a love of music and a drive to perform since childhood, which was spent in India, Ethiopia and the UK. She was classically trained as a pianist at an early age, later taught herself guitar and began composing songs during a long convalescence from a tropical illness in her teens. Writing and performing her songs has continued to act as an uplifting tonic for Jess and has the same effect on a growing army of loyal fans.

Jess cut her teeth with an Oxfordshire-based band and played her way solo around London and Sydney, before landing in Barcelona. Here, she describes experiencing a “musical explosion” after falling in with a crowd of Brazilian musicians, singing all over the city and earning her rent as a singing angel street statue for over a year. Later periods in the city were spent wrestling music theory in Catalan and taking local cabarets by storm in an eight-girl country band. Her songwriting is often inspired by her travels, from a tour of Central America and Cuba, to a series of concerts in Brazil and Argentina.

Jess has performed on stages of all shapes and sizes, from under a washing line in Brazil to small stages at five Glastonburys, Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals, City Showcase, a residency at Henley Festival and she walked onto the main stage as Jools Holland walked off at the first ever Cornbury.

Since her return to London, Jess has signed a publishing deal and has penned some new uplifting material inspired by an urge to lift spirits bogged down by the overwhelming mood of austerity. She is performing regularly across the capital, both as a duo with the cellist and singer Emma Butterworth and a small band.

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