Jem
Before she straddled the border between electronica and pop/rock with songs like "They," Jem Griffiths began the roundabout road to songstress stardom in Cardiff, Wales, where the singer was born and raised. She later attended Sussex University, balancing her course work with an emerging interest in music. Although still enrolled at Sussex, Griffiths became a talent scout for local DJs and helped promote the city's club events; she also helped launch the electronica imprint Marine Parade while rubbing shoulders with Lo Fidelity Allstars and breakbeat techno producer Adam Freeland. After dropping her last name and moving back home, Jem began building tracks on her own, as well as fine-tuning her voice.
Not content to stay in one place, Jem relocated to London with demos in hand. There, she collaborated with producer Guy Sigsworth (picking up a writing credit for the Madonna track "Nothing Fails" in the process) before landing in America and hooking up with hip-hop producer Ge-Ology and programming whiz Yoad Nevo (Bond, Sophie Ellis-Bextor). Together, they tweaked Jem's music into an amalgam of soft electronica and soothing, Dido-like vocals. Such an appealing sound found an audience in early 2002, when radio DJ Nic Harcourt -- an employee at L.A.'s taste-making KCRW station and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic -- began spinning the breezy Jem track "Finally Woken." This exposure led to a deal with ATO Records, which issued Jem's introductory EP, It All Starts Here, in autumn of the following year.
A full-length effort entitled Finally Woken appeared in March 2004, and the hauntingly appealing "They" (that featured a sample from the Swingle Singers' adaptation of a Johann Sebastian Bach composition) found success on both sides of the Atlantic, even peaking at number six in the U.K.
Jem's music subsequently found its way onto a number of movies and TV shows, and she returned in 2008 with her second effort, Down to Earth. Included on the album was the single "Amazing," which was also featured on the soundtrack to the Sex & the City movie.
By 2009, Jem had already begun working on new songs. However, label issues between ATO and Sony left her in limbo and work on a new album stalled. Undeterred, she switched her attention to several side-projects, including releasing the digital single "Until the Morning Comes," with her brother, Glass Pear's Yestyn Griffiths. Finally, in 2012 she resumed work on her solo material, laying down tracks at Grand Master Studios in Hollywood. In 2016, Jem released her third full-length album, Beachwood Canyon, featuring the title track single.
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Finally Woken
Pop - Lançado por ATO RECORDS em 23 de mar. de 2004
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Down To Earth
Pop - Lançado por ATO RECORDS em 16 de set. de 2008
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¡klezfiesta!
Yiddish & Klezmer - Lançado por Neuklang em 13 de set. de 2019
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A Tribute To George Harrison
Pop - Lançado por TIC em 6 de dez. de 2016
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Songs of Lionel Richie
Bossa Nova - Lançado por S2S em 17 de jul. de 2014
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All the Ballads
Pop - Lançado por Trashy Pop em 13 de abr. de 2016
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Both Sides Now
Rock - Lançado por Burning Girl Productions em 7 de jan. de 2016
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Beachwood Canyon
Pop - Lançado por Orchid Entertainment Inc em 22 de jul. de 2016
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Cloudbusting
Rock - Lançado por Burning Girl Productions em 4 de jan. de 2016
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Fast Car
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Burning Girl Productions em 22 de jan. de 2016
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Love Trigger
Pop - Lançado por Ariola em 22 de fev. de 2014
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Running Up That Hill
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por TIC em 14 de jun. de 2017
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Cry For Love
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Hohenheim Publishing em 18 de out. de 2021
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The Sensual World
Pop - Lançado por Purple Haze em 18 de out. de 2021
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Nichoach 11
International Pop - Lançado por Nichoach 10 em 11 de jan. de 2023
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Foolish Games
Electronic - Lançado por StreetBeat Records, Inc. em 20 de jan. de 1998
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Nichoach 10
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Nichoach 10 em 10 de jan. de 2023
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Nichoach 4
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Nichoach 4 em 4 de jan. de 2023
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Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Nichoach 9 em 9 de jan. de 2023
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Nichoach 14
International Pop - Lançado por Nichoach 14 em 14 de jan. de 2023
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