{"id":32149,"date":"2016-06-01T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=32149"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:53:13","slug":"jones-london-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/jones-london-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sam Smith&#039;s Favorite New Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/JONES.jpg\" alt=\"JONES London Musician Interview\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1005\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe was the talk of SXSW and Sam Smith loves her music \u2013 &#8220;fucking beautiful&#8221; were his exact words. The 25 year old singer-songwriter JONES may not have released her debut album yet, but she\u2019s already poised for big things. We sat down with her to chat teenage diaries, vintage shopping and girl power.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Where did you grow up?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I grew up in the Aldgate neighbourhood of London. It was a pretty strange place to live, as it wasn\u2019t very residential \u2013 mainly offices and tourists passing through, but it was a good spot to people-watch. Now I live in Hackney.<br \/>\n<strong>I read that you grew up listening to Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross \u2013 how did they inspire your music?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I always had their songs in my stream of consciousness, and thanks to my mother they were woven into my childhood. I loved their beautiful voices and the romantic way they wrote about love. I think listening to these classic artists helped shape what I wanted to become.<br \/>\n<strong>What was the first record you bought?<br \/>\n<\/strong>That would have to be the Spice Girls&#8217; first album. As most young girls back then, I was obsessed with the whole British girl-power idea.<br \/>\n<strong>You frequently use past diary entries as source material for songwriting. How\u00a0nerve-wracking\u00a0is it to share your innermost thoughts?<br \/>\n<\/strong>In my early years of performing I was afraid to sing such personal songs, but I just kept going and pushed myself out of my comfort zone. Now I barely even think about it.<br \/>\n<strong>Where do you like to hang out?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I love the diversity in London&#8217;s nightlife because each neighbourhood has a\u00a0completely different vibe. Where I go depends on the\u00a0mood I&#8217;m in, but I enjoy Spitalfields Market for its delicious\u00a0food stalls, and Regents Park is a real gem within the city. The pubs in East London are excellent when I&#8217;m craving a good\u00a0Sunday roast. My favourites are\u00a0The Cat and Mutton in Broadway Market, and Pub on the Park over near London Fields.<br \/>\n<strong>Describe your style in three words.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Classic, feminine, and earthy.<br \/>\n<strong>How does your on-stage persona differ from your off-stage identity?<br \/>\n<\/strong>There is no dramatic shift in persona. It is still very much me, but on-stage it\u2019s a heightened version of myself\u2013more elevated and in a way freer. I can do things on stage that I normally wouldn&#8217;t or couldn&#8217;t do in normal life\u2014I\u00a0still have\u00a0introverted and intimate moments during the set.<br \/>\n<strong>What do you like to wear on-stage?<br \/>\n<\/strong>This is something that will always continue to evolve, but right now I enjoy\u00a0experimenting with a series of vintage sequin jackets that I collected\u00a0from different stores around East London.<br \/>\n<strong>What\u2019s the best piece of advice you\u2019ve been given?<br \/>\n<\/strong>A\u00a0friend who also works in the industry once told me to never be afraid of\u00a0feeding my artistic fire, and that I must always\u00a0keep this alive. It was the sort of advice I really needed to hear at that point in time.<br \/>\n<strong>Career highlight so far?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Performing on live TV for Jools Holland, playing at SXSW, and each of my headline shows have all been major accomplishments. I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to have great audiences\u00a0each time.<br \/>\n<strong>What\u2019s next?<br \/>\n<\/strong>This\u00a0summer I\u2019ll be performing at a lot of festivals: The Great Escape, Latitude, and Dot to Dot\u2014to name a few. Then, my album &#8220;New Skin&#8221;\u00a0will be released at the\u00a0end of the year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chat to JONES, the vintage-loving singer-songwriter whose star is shining bright<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":32150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,4568,10172,139],"tags":[3905,21,4569,141,1473,4570,4571],"class_list":["post-32149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-culture","category-film","category-art","tag-culture","tag-fashion","tag-jones","tag-london","tag-music","tag-sam-smith","tag-singer"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet Sam Smith&#039;s Favorite New Singer Meet Sam Smith&#039;s Favorite New Singer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/jones-london-singer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Sam Smith&#039;s Favorite New Singer Meet Sam Smith&#039;s Favorite New Singer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We chat to JONES, the vintage-loving singer-songwriter whose star is shining bright\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/jones-london-singer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-01T11:53:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Natalie Hughes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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