About Jetty

Jetty is a young vocalist, songwriter and composer from Berlin, Germany. Jetty's drive and passion of music inspired her to make the big step of packing up everything and moving to the UK in 2007, starting her amazing journey doing the one thing she loves: Music.

Childhood and musical roots

Jetty comes from a humble background. With her mum being a teacher, her dad an engineer and her sister working in the advertising industry she is the first in her family to follow the music path and at the age of 6, Jetty's parents arranged for her to take piano lessons. From a very early age her dad constantly exposed Jetty to some of the greatest bands and songwriters in the history of popular music including Queen, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Billy Joel and Chicago, just to name a few. Entering secondary school at the age of 12 it was Jetty's greatest wish to start singing as well as taking vocal, piano and music theory lessons.

Development as an artist and songwriter

This was also when she formed her first pop/rock band. 2 years later she joined a latin jazz band through which she developed a passion for jazz and Latin American music. Some artists of these genres Jetty admired at the time were Sarah Vaughan, Jane Monheit, Silje Nergaard, Torun Eriksen, Miles Davis, Billy Childs, Count Basie and Antonio Carlos Jobim. After singing in the classical choir at her school, Jetty auditioned and was given the honour to be part of the Berlin state youth pop/jazz choir "Young Voices" (2002-2005). With the "Young Voices" Jetty toured Germany and Lebanon. It was through these choirs and her own vocal groups that she discovered her deep love for singing harmonies and started arranging and singing characteristic backing vocals for her own and other artists' songs. After secondary school Jetty did a prep year at a music school in Berlin to prepare for her jazz vocal performance studies at a German conservatoire. Here she learned essential jazz piano basics, vocal improvisation and jazz theory and started composing for her own band as well as larger ensembles. At the end of her prep phase Jetty realized that the music she really wanted to make and study was an innovative mix of Pop, R&B and (Neo-) Soul with jazz influences. Some of her biggest influences from these genres are Amel Larrieux, Justin Timberlake, Musiq Soulchild, John Legend, Coldplay, Ne-Yo, Dwele, Eric Benét, Floetry and the Fleet Foxes amongst others. Her three passions - Music, Languages and Travelling - made Jetty decide to move to the UK, the cradle of pop music, in 2007 and study Commercial Music in London at the University of Westminster.
Here she started building her portfolio as an artist and commercial songwriter, initiated the collaboration with various producers and composed for orchestra and film.

Recent activities

In late 2010 Jetty worked on her EP "Slowly Feeling My Way" together with producer Hank Hughes and his production team at Ealing Studios. "Slowly Feeling My Way" is a collection of songs of various styles Jetty had experimented with including her competition-winning single "Go with the Flow" and the follow-up single "You Keep Me On The Line". Jetty's songs are mostly piano-based and inspired by her journey through life and all types of crafted, soulful, heartfelt music she has come across. Besides her focus on working in the studio over the last 2 years Jetty took part in the International Summer Band and Songwriting Camp 2009 and 2010 at the Popakademie Mannheim where she got to write songs, perform and network with gifted musicians and songwriters from around the world. It was here she met Chengdu Pop Music Academy's vocal teacher Liu Jibin who invited her to perform at the International Pop Music Forum 2010 in Chengdu, China, in October 2010.

During last year's Summer Camp Jetty also started working with internationally recognized and highly sought-after producer Crada (Drake, Alicia Keys, Kid Cudi, Talib Kweli, Tinie Tempah i.a.). Crada liked her song "Poem in my Book" and decided to produce a hip hop version of it which he named "Let Me Be". The track then got send out to record labels and artists around the world and attracted interest from a number of major artists in the US.
After this extremely positive feedback Crada and Jetty continued working on further songs together. Over the last 3 months Jetty has been writing new song material day in, day out regularly delivering hooks as well as full song layouts to Crada and other producers.

With her eclectic blend of musical influences that is palpable in Jetty's style coupled with her buoyant, tenacious, nonchalant aura she has proven to be one to keep your eye on.