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“Good song, good lyrics,” he said, “Now, go to bed.” When she first finished a demo of “Blue Lights” she ran downstairs and played it to him.

Her mother was a jewellery maker, and her father – who is of Jamaican-origin – was a singer and songwriter in the neo-soul band 2nd Naicha. It’s something that still influences her now, and you can hear it in the vast range of her voice or in certain moments like the choral opening harmonies of “Something in the Way”. Little did she know that ten years later she’d be performing live on the station, as the special live performer for Trevor Nelson’s last ever ‘Live Lounge’.Įncouraged by her parents, she started playing keyboard at the age of 8, and was learning to sing classical by secondary school. Both of her parents were musical, and BBC Radio 1Xtra was constantly playing in the kitchen, blasting out bassline classics like T2’s “Heartbroken” as she did her homework. Jorja grew up in the industrial West Midlands town of Walsall. All this for a girl who’s only just turned 20, and hasn’t even released her debut album. And while most teenagers in London are spending their commutes to work listening to Drake, Jorja’s in there collaborating with the Toronto megastar on “Get It Together”, featuring on his More Life project, and performing as a special guest at his UK headline shows. Her debut EP, Project 11, was a flowing collection of songs knitted together by the soulful elasticity of her voice.Įarlier this year, she came fourth in BBC’s Sound of 2017, and has already been nominated for a MOBO. Since then, Jorja has gone on to create a name for herself as a gifted young R&B songwriter with a masterful knack for crafting melodies that make you feel like you could be anywhere from a smoky Parisian jazz club to a North London warehouse party. The song blew up, earning the praise of Skrillex and Stormzy, before it was eventually included on Drake’s OVO radio show. Written after watching Dizzee Rascal music videos while taking a break from her A-Level dissertation (titled: “Is Postcolonialism Still Present in Grime Music”) the song was inspired by the hostile situations innocent young black men were facing every day, not just in her local town of Walsall but around the world. The stories that are unfolding around us all everyday, but that most of us are too distracted to notice. Since the age of 16, she’d been writing stories through music. It all started in January 2016, when Jorja Smith uploaded “Blue Lights” to Soundcloud, her self-released debut single.

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