Jessica Ellen Cornish, popularly known as Jessie J is an English who is a famous singer and songwriter by profession. She has been in the industry since she was 11 years of age since the year 2005. She also knows how to play the keyboard and vocals. Show
She has worked with some of the famous labels including Disturbing London, Gut, Island, Republic, and Lava. She works on the genres EDM, hip hop, soul, pop-rock, pop, and R&B. She also has her website named jessiejofficial.com. Jessie J Wiki/BiographyBorn on 27 March 1988, Jessie J’s age is 33 years as of August 2021. She was born and brought up in a rich-class Christian family from Redbridge, London, England. She completed her early education at the Mayfield High School in Redbridge, London, England, and Collins Performing Arts School in London, England. She later enrolled herself at the National Youth Music Theatre, United Kingdom, and The BRIT School, the United Kingdom from where she completed her graduation. From the very beginning of her childhood, she was more interested in singing and other co-curricular activities rather than studying.
Family, Boyfriend & RelationshipsJessie J’s father’s name is Mr. Stephen Cornish who is a social worker and her mother’s name is Mrs. Rose Cornish, who is a kindergarten teacher by profession. She also has two siblings. She has two elder sisters named Rachel Cornish, and Hannah Cornish. Jessie J’s marital status is unmarried. Jessie J dated musician Luke James for approximately a year in 2014. Then, in 2018, she was linked to Channing Tatum. Since 2018, the pair has been in an on-again, off-again romance. Between her on-again, off-again romance with Channin, she dated and then split up with dancer and choreographer Max Pham Nguyen. Physical AppearanceJessie J beautiful-looking lady with an attractive and charming personality and a cute smile. She owns a beautiful body with attractive body measurements and a beautifully shaped slim body shape. Her figure measurements are 33-23-34 inches approximately. She is about 5 feet and 9 inches in height and her body weight is around 58 Kg. She has beautiful brown (dyed black) color long and hair and also has blistering green color beautiful and mesmerizing eyes. CareerJessie J started her career with a role in Whistle Down the Wind, a West End Musical. In the year 2008, she did an opening act at the Girls Around Tangled Up Tour. In the year 2009, she did an opening act at the Chris Brown Fan Appreciation Tour. In the year 2010, she sang the song as a lead artist titled Do it Like a Dude. This year, she also made a guest appearance in the song titled Love Shine Down. Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988),[2] known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind. She studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. After signing with Republic Records, Jessie J came to prominence following the release of her debut single, "Do It Like a Dude". Her following single, "Price Tag", topped the charts in nineteen countries including the UK and was followed by the release of her debut album, Who You Are (2011), which peaked at number two in the UK. Other singles from the album included "Nobody's Perfect", "Who You Are", "Domino" and "Laserlight", all of which peaked within the top ten on the UK Singles Chart, making Jessie J the first British female artist to have six top-ten singles from a sole studio album.[3] "Domino" also attained further international success, peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 and becoming her second number-one single in the UK. In 2012, Jessie J performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in June, as well as the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London on 12 August. Her second album, Alive (2013), peaked within the top five on the UK Albums Chart and also included the top-five singles "Wild" and "It's My Party". The release of her third album, Sweet Talker (2014), was preceded by the single "Bang Bang" which debuted at number one in the UK and went multi-platinum worldwide. The album made the top five in the UK and peaked at number ten on the US Billboard 200, her highest-charting album in the US. As of January 2015[update], Jessie J had sold over 20 million singles and 3 million albums worldwide.[4] Citing various influences, Jessie J is recognised for an unconventional musical and performance style[5][6] that mixes soul vocals with contemporary R&B, pop, electropop,[7][8] and hip-hop beats. She has received various accolades throughout her career, including the 2011 Critics' Choice Brit Award and the BBC's Sound of 2011. Jessie J has supported various charitable causes, and has appeared on the UK charity telethons BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief. She has served as a coach on the competition series The Voice UK, The Voice Australia and The Voice Kids UK. In 2018, Jessie J received widespread recognition in China following her appearance in the Hunan TV reality program Singer (previously called I Am a Singer). Who You AreStudio album by Jessie J Released25 February 2011 (2011-02-25)Recorded2005 – 19 January 2011Studio
Who You Are is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. It was released on 28 February 2011 by Lava Records, Island Records and Universal Republic Records. In such a high demand and interest from fans, the release was advanced by a month from 28 March, as previously planned.[2] Recording sessions took place between 2005 and 2011, with several other record producers contributing on the album such as Dr. Luke, Toby Gad and K-Gee, among others. Who You Are received generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. It debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 105,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 34,000 copies. Two singles preceded the album: Jessie J's UK debut single "Do It Like a Dude" and "Price Tag" featuring B.o.B, which served as the US lead single. The third single, "Nobody's Perfect", became J's third consecutive top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. The fourth single from the album, "Who's Laughing Now" was released on 21 August 2011, peaking at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. The title track, "Who You Are" was released as the album's fifth UK single on 13 November 2011. The re-release of Who You Are (variably called the "Deluxe Edition" or the "Platinum Edition") was released on 14 November 2011. It includes three bonus tracks: Jessie's second UK #1 single "Domino", "My Shadow" and "Laserlight", a collaboration with David Guetta.[3] Who You Are is the first album by a British female artist in history to produce six or more top ten hits in United Kingdom. BackgroundWho You Are was one of the most anticipated releases of 2011, due to Jessie J winning the Critics Choice award at the 2011 BRIT Awards[4] and topping the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.[5] On Twitter, Jessie J confirmed that it took her six years to completely finish the album—finally being completed on 19 January 2011.[6][7] In an interview, Jessie J stated that she wrote her first song, "Big White Room", at the age of 17, about when she was in hospital, at 11 years old. A ward mate of hers, a little boy, died. She recalls waking up in the middle of the night and seeing him praying, and her mother explaining that he was having an operation the next day and was asking God to save him. "He died the next day so I said to my mum 'but God didn't save him'. I was so angry and it really confused me. I always wanted to write a song about the experience, but I knew I had to be of an age where it wasn't tacky or depressing and had a lightness to it." She prefers the song with just an acoustic guitar; stripped down and bare.[8] The album's title track, "Who You Are", was released to the US iTunes Store on 22 February 2011.[9] It is the song from the album of which she is proudest. It's the song that draws the most messages from fans, on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. "The other day I had a girl message me saying 'I was ready to take my life and then I heard "Who You Are"'. That pressure is beautiful but scary at the same time. I want to be a positive role model for young people. I always say that I'm half-artist, half-therapist," she laughs. She wrote the song at the end of a lonely three-month trip to Los Angeles when she was 20, having been shunted from studio to studio with various producers. "I'm very much someone that lives to be happy. It's not just about the parties and I know so-and-so – I'm not that girl. So I looked in the mirror and started to cry and said 'who am I?' Music is my therapy."[8] SinglesThe album's first single was the Parker & James and "The Invisible Men"-produced "Do It Like a Dude", which was released on 18 November 2010. Initially the single peaked at number five UK Singles Chart however, after Jessie won the Critics Choice award at the 2011 BRIT Awards, "Do It Like a Dude" would reached a new peak of number two, eight weeks after the first charting. The song also charted at 11 on the Irish Singles Chart.[10] The second single, the B.o.B-assisted "Price Tag", was released on 30 January 2011—also serving as the album's lead US single.[11] The single went on to peak at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 6 February 2011, giving Jessie her second top-three hit in the UK.[12] "Price Tag" became Jessie's breakout international hit, also peaking at number one in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. "Nobody's Perfect", one of her three favourite tracks from Who You Are, was released as the album's third single.[13] It became Jessie's third consecutive top-ten hit in the UK peaking at number nine, performing similarly in Australia and New Zealand. In Ireland it became Jessie's third single to reach the top-fifteen. Initially Jessie confirmed the album's title track as the fourth single, during an interview with Digital Spy on 18 May 2011.[14] However, Jessie revealed that UK fans had pushed her towards releasing. "Who's Laughing Now" instead, because of the sentiments against bullying.[15] The video for "Who's Laughing Now" premiered on YouTube on 10 August 2011. It was released as the fourth single from the album on 26 August 2011[16] and peaked at number sixteen.[17] "Domino" was released in the United States as Jessie's second single on 29 August 2011, and peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100—her highest-charting single in the US.[18] Elsewhere, it was released as the album's fifth single. The track also appears on the Platinum edition of Who You Are[19] and was released in the UK on 27 February 2012 as the album's fifth single followed by the title track.[20] "Domino" peaked at number-one in the UK[21] and Ireland,[21] also reaching the top five in New Zealand[21] and Australia.[21] The title track, "Who You Are", was released on 13 November 2011 as the sixth official single. It became Jessie's fifth top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart, when it peaked at number eight in December 2011. The seventh single to be released from Who You Are, "Laserlight", became her sixth top ten single from the album, making her the first British female artist to have six top ten singles on one album.[22] The song premiered on Capital FM on 29 March 2012. It was released as a digital download on 4 May 2012.[23] Critical reception
Upon its release, Who You Are received mixed reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 51, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews",[24] while aggregating website AnyDecentMusic? reports a score of 4.9 based on 17 professional reviews.[34] Daisy Bowie Sell of The Daily Telegraph complimented Cornish's "big voice and ballsy attitude" and wrote that the album "switches effortlessly from R&B ballads to punchy rap tunes".[35] Kitty Empire of The Observer noticed that Cornish "remains relatively quirky throughout" and found Who You Are "impressive, if not entirely lovable".[36] Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote that it "brims with infectious, Americanised songs, delivered with a confidence money can't buy", but criticised the slower songs saying that "divested of the slowies, this would have been a fine pop record".[1] Andy Gill from The Independent noticed "the distinctly transatlantic nature of her style" and praised the songs "Do It Like a Dude" and "Who's Laughing Now" "whose lithe, funky groove carries her dismissal of the schoolyard bullies", while criticizing other tracks such as "Casualty of Love" and "Rainbow", calling them "unimpressive" and "tricked out with the showy vocal bling favoured by R&B divas as a substitute for genuine soul".[28] Johnny Dee of Virgin Media found the album "a bit patchy"; he felt that "when Jessie is having fun she's unstoppable", but noted that "the album's problems come when Jessie overdoes the vocal warbling and completely forgets to write an actual song". However, he concluded by stating that Cornish will be "[one of] the biggest and coolest UK female artists for decades".[37] Mischa Pearlman of Yahoo! Music wrote that the album "doesn't entirely deliver, but even when its songs fall short of the promised hype, their potential is obvious" and stated that "next time, she'll be one step closer to getting it spot on".[38] Jessie J performing at the 2011 The Big Chill music festival.Mike Diver of BBC Music gave a mixed review, writing that "the songs of Who You Are are expectedly split between slower, slushier affairs and punchy anthems for bolshy teens" and called the album "too patchy, too hurried, the powers behind it too eager to capitalise on the artist's current chart success", although he felt that "there's ample room for improvement".[27] Ailbhe Malone from NME described it as "cheeky, relevant, and fresh [...] but unfortunately [...] a flash that's shortly over" and noticed that "no matter how much Jessie J sings about being herself, we don't really ever get a sense of who, or what, that is".[29] Gary McGinley of No Ripcord called it "an album of two-halves as the stronger brat-pop moments soon give way to by insipid, dated ballads"; he noted that "there are glimpses of promise scattered between the overwrought delivery and unnecessary vocal gymnastics", but concluded by saying that Who You Are "promised much more than what has been delivered".[39] Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman wrote that it "covers all the tried and tested commercial territory: mainly a slick, generic imitation of American R&B divas [...] blended with the obligatory hip-pop stance" and felt that Cornish "is more interested in tiresome vocal showboating than communicating anything truthful".[40] Eric Henderson from Slant Magazine agreed, saying that "in the quest to find herself, she seems to have gotten sidetracked".[32] Matthew Perpetua of Pitchfork was particularly critical; he felt that "the music is scattered, covering all the bases in an over-eager attempt to prove vocal chops" and noticed that Cornish "comes across like a severely dumbed-down Lily Allen at best, and at worst she seems like someone you would want to root against in a televised singing competition".[30] Commercial performanceOn 6 March 2011, Who You Are debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, behind Adele's 21, shifting 105,000 copies in its first week.[41] In August 2013 the album was certified quadruple Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments of 1,200,000 units in the United Kingdom.[42] The album debuted at number eleven on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 34,000 copies.[43] In Australia, the album peaked at number four.[44] It has since been certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipments of 35,000 units.[45] The album débuted at number 30 in Denmark on 11 March 2011. The following week it reached number 33, before leaving the chart. On 12 August, Who Are You re-entered the chart at number ten. In its fifth week on the chart it reached number five, achieving a new peak position.[44] In November 2011 it was revealed that Who You Are was the biggest selling début album of 2011 in the UK.[46] As of April 2012, sales of the album have reached 2,500,000 worldwide.[47] Track listing
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