Jessie ware is a proper pop star. With her soulful, melancholy vocal, effortlessly elegant songwriting skills and, of course, that striking slicked-back hair, she marks a new era for pop. her outstanding debut album devotion combines the ultra-modern feel of downtempo, r&b and british electronic music. In its review of her debut album, Devotion, Clash called Jessie "the missing link between Adele, SBTRKT and Sade".
Background
Ware was born in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in Hammersmith, London, and was raised in Clapham, South London. She is the daughter of Helena (née Keell), a social worker, and John Ware, a BBC Panorama reporter, who divorced when she was 10, and the younger sister of actress Hannah Ware. Her mother has been a big support in starting her musical career and Jessie considers her as "her hero",saying "She brought up my sister, brother and me with so much love and fun and always told me I could do anything I want." Ware was raised Jewish. Фе some point Jessie shared a flat with Felix White of The Maccabees and she is also friends with Adele
Education
Jessie started singing at school, inspired by the romance of her mother’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald sings cole porter tapes, appearing in musicals and picking up some classical training along the way.
At the University her life began to veer in a different direction. “I didn’t think it was ever going to be possible,” she admits, having put her dreams of being a singer on hold. “It always broke my heart a bit. i couldn’t even do it as a past-time, because it made me feel too sick to only half do it.”
Career
After university she briefly worked as a journalist at The Jewish Chronicle, did sports journalism at The Daily Mirror and worked behind the scenes at TV company Love Productions. There she was a colleague of Erika Leonard, otherwise known as E. L. James, the author of Fifty Shades of Grey. “i wanted to be a football reporter for a red top,” she confesses – until a chance phone call from her old friend jack penate changed the direction of her life again completely. he remembered she could sing from school, and asked if she’d do backing vocals for him on a zane lowe bbc session. she leapt at the chance. “i thought, this is brilliant, it’s really fun, singing,” she recalls. “Maybe i could be a backing singer.” Jack took her on tour with him, at first around the uk festival circuit, then to America.
