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- Jessica's collaboration with Andy Moor is accepted onto Armin Van Buuran's CD...
- Jessica sings at The Mayfair Hotel for PA Of The Year Awards...
- Jessica supports Finley Quaye for two evenings and plays at Ronnie Scotts in first week of moving to London...
- What Aled Jones said about Jessica on BBC Radio 2
- Jessica packs bags, books a bus ticket and moves to London....
- Jessica makes her TV debut
- Jessica on the Janice Long show
- Jessica's CD is now available
- Jessica's style Makeover with Secretsales.com...
- Jessica will go global, predicts BBC presenter
- First national newspaper discovers Jessica Sweetman
- Jessica Sweetman shoots to fame in Slovenia!
Jessica's collaboration with Andy Moor is accepted onto Armin Van Buuran's CD...
A few months ago, one of the UK's leading DJ's, Andy Moor approached Jessica, asking if she would be interested in doing a collaboration with him for his next single. She said yes, and after spending a couple of solid days in the studio, the track is finished and will be released around April time. We have just found out that the track, 'In Your Arms' has been accepted on to Armin Van Buuran's album, 'A State Of Trance 2012' which will be released on iTunes on March 1st and in stores as of March 9th....
Jessica sings at The Mayfair Hotel for PA Of The Year Awards...
Jessica was asked to sing at The Mayfair Hotel on Tuesday evening for The PA of the Year Awards...She sang alongside 'Strictly Come Dancing' singer Lance Ellington and his band. Photos of the evening will be up soon...
Jessica supports Finley Quaye for two evenings and plays at Ronnie Scotts in first week of moving to London...
Its Jessica's first week in London, and already she has landed herself two evenings supporting Finley Quaye at Earls Court and a guest singer slot at one of the worlds most prestigious Jazz venues, Ronnie Scotts. Jessica is now in Soho, gigging four to five times a week, making a name for herself, creating a buzz and getting her music heard...
What Aled Jones said about Jessica on BBC Radio 2
ALED JONES, a household name since he was a child, sang the praises of Jessica Sweetman live on the Radio 2 programme Dawn Patrol, where he was sitting in for Sarah Kennedy.
He was doing the morning newspaper round-up when he noticed the story about Jessica in The Daily Telegraph - a Page Two piece headlined "Hello, this is fame calling".
He told listeners: "This is really good story." And after reading it out, clearly in admiration of Jessica's achievement, he added a word of advice to others who hope to emulate her: "You should never give up."
Jessica packs bags, books a bus ticket and moves to London....
Jessica Sweetman has been gigging in bars and restaurants for six years around Birmingham and Cornwall. Only a few months ago, did Jessica make the spontaneous decision to pack her bags, jump on the bus and move to London in the hope of taking her music to the next level. As much as she loved gigging in Cornwall, she knew that she had to be in the Big City to get to where she aims to be. So thats exactly what she did. Within days of making this decision, Jessica found herself a tiny room in the heart of Soho, and found herself gigging three to four nights a week...She says " Although it was a tough move, i knew i had to do it to give this my best go. It has been the best decision and i am loving every minute of it"...
Jessica makes her TV debut
HOT ON the heels of an incredible amount of media attention including coverage in The Daily Telegraph, on Radio 2, on BBC Radio WM and on Pirate FM, Jessica Sweetman made her television debut at the age of 20 on the ITV regional news programme The Westcountry Tonight.
Reporter Kathy Wilshere came to Jessica's home in Cornwall and filmed her singing Angel Mine, the song that made her voice famous in Slovenia, followed by a touching acousitc duet on the sofa with her father, Mark Sweetman, of his original masterpiece The Best Day Of My Life.
As Jessica discovered what it was like being on camera - something she is going to have to get more and more used to as her fame spreads - she spoke, modestly, about the success and recognition that the Slovenian TV commercial for Mobitel has brought her.
The news item about Jessica, the final piece on the programme, included a summary of things Slovenia was famous for - and Jessica, according to the presenters, was one of those things.
Jessica on the Janice Long show
Jessica Sweetman was invited into the BBC studios for a half hour interview with popular Radio Presenter, Janice Long. During the live interview, Janice spoke to Jessica about her plans with the music and all about what has been happening following her success in Slovenia.
Jessica's CD is now available
Please email: jessica@jessicasweetman.co.uk if you would like to purchase Jessica's CD
Jessica's style Makeover with Secretsales.com...
Click the link to see an article wrote about Jessica's style Photoshoot with Secretsales.com...
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Jessica will go global, predicts BBC presenter
BBC RADIO WM presenter Mollie Green told listenersto her live afternoon show in the West Midlands that Jessica Sweetman would "go global".
The respected presenter made her prediction at the end of a 15-minute live interview during which she asked Jessica about her sudden leap to fame.
Mollie played, in full, the song Angel Mine, which has made Jessica's voice famous in Slovenia, and admitted on air afterwards that she was so moved by it and the quality of Jessica's voice that she cried.
It was Jessica's first live radio interview, but she distinguished herself and revealed her personality that will be one of the main factors in her future success.
First national newspaper discovers Jessica Sweetman
JESSICA SWEETMAN has finally been noticed by a national newspaper! The Daily Telegraph devoted part of Page Two to a story about the singer and her fame in Slovenia under the headline "Hello, this is fame calling".
The story, also carried on the influential newspaper's website in a long version and in far greater detail - read it here - represented Jessica's first steps from being a superb but unrecognised singer into one that the world is beginning to hear of.
Jessica Sweetman shoots to fame in Slovenia!
IT HAD to happen... and now it has. Jessica has become accidentally famous in Slovenia – thanks to a mobile phone company’s TV commercial that introduced her voice to millions of people.
Jessica, 20, recorded a song called Angel Mine for a firm that provides library music to the entertainment industry – and months later she was stunned to discover that the song, and her voice, was being heard on every national television and radio station in the Central European republic.
“The first I heard of it was when I received an e-mail from someone called Igor who said he loved the song and wanted to know if he could buy it,” said Jessica.
“I wasn’t sure what he was talking about, but I followed a link in his e-mail and discovered the song was being used as the backing track for a TV advert in a country I’d only vaguely heard of.
“This is an amazing break for me, and it’s incredible to think that people in a country I’ve never been to are trying to find out more about me and my music.”
The commercial for Mobitel, the country’s biggest mobile phone operator, was made by the advertising agency Publicis Slovenia, whose director Mitja Petrovic said it had been besieged with callers trying to find out who the distinctive voice behind the advert belonged to.
“We didn’t know Jessica before but we had a visual for the advertising campaign and wanted to find the right music to go with it,” he said.
“We could have used any famous singer on the planet, but when we heard Jessica’s voice we knew it was the perfect one.
“We’ve had a very strong response from Mobitel users wanting to know about the song and asking who the singer is.”
Thanks to the nationwide advertising campaign and the appearance of the video on Mobitel’s website, millions of people have Jessica’s voice on the brain – yet she has rarely played to audiences of more than a hundred here in the UK.
Since she performed Angel Mine, Jessica has been busy recording original songs by her songwriter father Mark Sweetman and has a growing repertoire that has yet to be heard by a single record company.
While she waits to be discovered in the UK, Jessica has put a video of her biggest potential hit, When It Comes To Love, on her website at www.jessicasweetman.com alongside a video of the advert that’s made her name in Slovenia.
Jessica, who lives in a cliffside house overlooking the sea in Seaton, Cornwall, has been repeatedly hailed as the next Katie Melua, Nora Jones, or Duffy.
“That’s all very flattering,” she said. “But I’m happy to be the first Jessica Sweetman.”