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.
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.
amazing lipstick looked natural shoots suit though time
Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
amazingly incredible pop written
I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.
good liking people smile
I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.
earning eggs knew money music parents sure until work worked
I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.
artists continuing ginger gorgeous love lovely mini release settled
I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!
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.
My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.
My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.
balls drink rather tells
My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I'd rather have the fish balls.