Who run the world? Er, GIRLS dummy! In The Whatever The Weather Issue, i-D’s Music Editor Hattie Collins rounds-up some of finest British femmes in the music industry right now. Jessie Ware is one of her extra-special chosen ones and i-D online was on hand to ask the damsel with damn fine pipes a couple of questions…
We nearly lost Jessie Ware to the Jewish Chronicle; lucky for us, journalism shifted to the sideline after school friend Jack Peñate requested Ware sing backing vocals for him at a Zane Lowe’s Maida Vale sessions. Since then, she’s worked with Man Like Me and toured the US with Peñate, before making us swoon with Sampha’s Valentine, screwface at Joker’s Vision and shake our narni’s to SBTRKT’s Nervous. In 2012, we will see more soul and less dubstep from the solo sounds of this exquisite Brixton based singer and songwriter, who is signed to PMR and working with Julio Bashmore, David Okumu (The Invisibles) and Kid Harpoon.
To read Hattie’s interview with Jessie and see the full round-up, grab yourself a copy of The Whatever The Weather issue, available here and see all H.C’s ladies in all their glory here.
Jessie wears shirt Fred Perry.
Text: Hattie Collins
Photography: Thomas Lohr
Film: James Champion and Katrin Obenauf
Film interview: Zainab Jama
Styling: Ger Tierney and Raphael Hirsch
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