25 Facts About Jessie Ware

Jessica Lois Ware was born on 15 October 1984 and is an English singer and songwriter.

Jessie Ware came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album, Devotion, which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and produced the single "Wildest Moments".

Jessie Ware has received accolades including seven Brit Awards nominations including one for Best New Artist and four for British Female Solo Artist and two Mercury Prize nominations.

In 2018, Jessie Ware began co-hosting Table Manners alongside her mother Lennie, a podcast about "family, food and the art of a good old chit-chat", available to online streaming platforms.

Jessie Ware was born at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London, on 15 October 1984.

Jessie Ware is the daughter of Helena, a social worker, and John Ware, a BBC Panorama reporter, who divorced when she was 10.

Jessie Ware is the younger sister of English actress Hannah Ware.

Jessie Ware was educated at Alleyn's School, a co-educational independent school in Dulwich in South London, where she was a schoolmate of Florence Welch, Jack Penate, and Felix White of the Maccabees.

Jessie Ware then attended the University of Sussex, where she graduated with a degree in English literature.

Jessie Ware consequently met Sampha, then known as SBTRKT's main collaborator.

Jessie Ware featured on Ceremonials, the 2011 album by Florence and the Machine in which her good friend Florence Welch is lead singer.

Jessie Ware toured in the United Kingdom in the early part of March 2013, supported by Laura Mvula, starting with Cambridge, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol and ending in London.

Jessie Ware played the Wilderness Festival ; a pair of additional dates at Berlin Festival 2014 and Sopot Gulf of Art that year.

Originally, Jessie Ware only received a songwriting credit, but she was then credited on updated versions of the album.

In October 2017, Jessie Ware returned to the stage after a two-year absence in anticipation of the release of her third studio album, Glasshouse.

In October 2018, Jessie Ware released the single "Overtime", later to be included on What's Your Pleasure in 2021.

Later in 2021, Jessie Ware collaborated with Kylie Minogue on the reissue of Minogue's fifteenth studio album Disco entitled Disco: Guest List Edition.

Jessie Ware later joked that she had "bullied" Minogue into a duet as the two further discussed a collaboration.

Jessie Ware will be joined on the panel by Alan Carr, Amber Riley, and Samantha Barks, with Zoe Ball as host.

Towards the end of 2017, Jessie Ware launched a podcast, produced with her mother, called Table Manners for Acast and Island Records about "family, food and the art of a good old chit-chat", featuring a new guest each week on the show.

On 23 January 2019, Jessie Ware announced on her Instagram that she had created a premium kidswear collaboration called "Anyware Kids" launching online and in selected retailers Spring 2019, developed by designer George Reddings.

In 2021, Jessie Ware appeared as a guest judge on the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

Jessie Ware is a UNICEF UK ambassador and travelled with them to Bangladesh, Cameroon and North Macedonia to see the work they are doing there to help children who have fled violence.

Jessie Ware was part of the lineup for "Artists for Grenfell" charity single which was released to raise money for the families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and for The London Community Foundation.

Jessie Ware has been nominated for several awards, including seven Brit Awards nominations, four of them being for British Female Solo Artist.