Jessie Ware Artistfacts

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Jessie Ware Artistfacts

October 15, 1984
Jessie Ware is the daughter of Helena (Lennie) Ware, a social worker, and John Ware, a BBC Panorama reporter. She has an older sister, Hannah Ware, who is an actress.
She grew up in Clapham, London and attended Alleyn's School, in Dulwich along with singer Jack Peñate, Felix White (formerly of The Maccabees), and Florence Welch. In a production of Guys and Dolls, Ware played the lead, Adelaide, while Welch had a walk-on part as a Salvation Army girl.

"You know when you have girls at school where people whisper, 'She can really sing'? That was Jessie," Welch told The Independent.
After studying English Literature at the University of Sussex, Ware tried her hand at journalism, working for The Jewish Chronicle and The Daily Mirror. She also worked as a PA at Love Productions, where her office mate Erika Leonard - later known to the world as E.L. James of Fifty Shades of Grey fame - shared passages of her steamy manuscript-in-progress. "I certainly learned a few things!" Jessie quipped.
Her path to stardom began with gigs as a backing vocalist for friends like Jack Peñate and Florence Welch, before landing a record deal of her own. Her 2012 debut album, Devotion, reached #5 on the UK albums chart, and the single "Wildest Moments" became one of her best-known songs.
Jessie Ware is a longtime friend of Adele. They have known each other since childhood and have maintained a connection throughout their careers in the music industry. In Adele's 2011 DVD performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, she singles out two girls in the audience and thanks one of them for reuniting her with Laura Dockrill, a childhood friend she had fallen out with. The peacemaker Adele refers to is Jessie Ware.
Jessie Ware got married to her childhood sweetheart Sam Burrows on the Greek island of Skopelos in 2014. She wrote the song "You & I (Forever)" after Burrows proposed to her.
In 2018, Ware launched the popular podcast Table Manners with her mother Lennie. The show mixes family anecdotes, celebrity guests and culinary adventures, though Jessie admits to one particular failing. "I set the fire alarm off at least three times a week because I'm an impatient cook," she confessed.
Despite her success, Ware often jokes about her musical shortcomings. Reflecting on her early days as a backing singer for Jack Peñate during Table Manners, she laughed, "He gave me a tambourine, and I couldn't even do that."

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