Jem

Before she straddled the border between electronica and pop/rock with songs like “They,” Jem Griffiths began the roundabout road to songstress stardom in Cardiff, Wales, where in fact the singer was created and raised. She afterwards attended Sussex School, balancing her training course use an emerging curiosity about music. Although still enrolled at Sussex, Griffiths became a skill scout for regional DJs and helped promote the city’s membership occasions; she also helped start the electronica imprint Sea Parade while rubbing shoulder blades with Lo Fidelity Allstars and breakbeat techno manufacturer Adam Freeland. After falling her last name and shifting back, Jem started building tracks on her behalf own, in addition to fine-tuning her tone of voice. Not content in which to stay one place, Jem relocated to London with demos at hand. There, she collaborated with manufacturer Man Sigsworth (picking right up a composing credit for the Madonna monitor “Nothing at all Fails” along the way) before getting in the us and starting up with hip-hop manufacturer Ge-Ology and development whiz Yoad Nevo (Connection, Sophie Ellis-Bextor). Jointly, they tweaked Jem’s music into an amalgam of gentle electronica and relaxing, Dido-like vocals. This interesting sound discovered an market in early 2002, when radio DJ Nic Harcourt — a worker at L.A.’s taste-making KCRW train station and sponsor of Morning hours Becomes Eclectic — started content spinning the breezy Jem monitor “Finally Woken.” This publicity resulted in a cope with ATO Information, which released Jem’s introductory EP, EVERYTHING Starts Right here, in fall months of the next yr. A full-length work entitled Finally Woken made an appearance in March 2004, as well as the hauntingly interesting “They” (that presented a sample through the Swingle Performers’ adaptation of the Johann Sebastian Bach structure) found achievement on both edges from the Atlantic, actually peaking at quantity six within the U.K. Jem’s music consequently found its method onto several movies and Television shows, and she came back in 2008 with her second work, Down to Globe. Included on the recording was the solitary “Amazing,” that was also presented for the soundtrack towards the Sex & the town film. By 2009, Jem got already begun focusing on fresh songs. Nevertheless, label problems between ATO and Sony remaining her in limbo and focus on a new recording stalled. Undeterred, she turned her focus on many side-projects, including liberating the digital solitary “Before Morning Shows up,” with her sibling, Cup Pear’s Yestyn Griffiths. Finally, in 2012 she resumed focus on her single material, setting up monitors at Grand Get better at Studios in Hollywood. In 2016, Jem released her third full-length recording, Beachwood Canyon, offering the title monitor single.