Junior Star Singer Songwriter magazine
The online magazine for the Junior Star Singer Songwriter competition
By Billy & Louie Hughes
These are undoubtedly strange times for us all. While keeping people apart to keep us healthy is the best way to save lives, it’s still really tough being indoors and away from friends, family and the outside world in general.
That’s why we came up with an idea to somehow collaborate with singers and upcoming artists to spread a bit of positivity during the current time of crisis.
Our junior reporter Georgia Lois recently interviewed our winner of 2019, Harriet Roberts, about her background and what it was like to discover that she had won the competition. Take a listen to the interview here:
Hi guys, this is Isolde here! I just wanted to update you about what’s going on in my new music video. The whole video was so fantastic to create and I couldn’t have created it all without the amazing makeup artist, Gem and Tonic Jewellery, Jessica Hope, Billy and Louie, the film crew, the photographers and Amanda Neale my manager.
Junior Star Singer Songwriter is a great platform for helping our young artists to launch their musical careers and find ways to get their music out into the public domain. One opportunity that came up recently was the chance for our 2017 best group winners, Billy & Louie, to appear live on a radio show on BBC Wiltshire.
Continue reading “Billy & Louie hit the airwaves on BBC Wiltshire”
Junior Star Singer’s very own Isolde caught up with Temi Atiba, a contestant in this year’s JSS competition, to see how she’s feeling as we head ever closer to announcing this year’s finalists! Above is a picture of Temi, alongside JSS artists and Jss Extra Presenters Georgia Lois and Chloe Dunn, when she appeared on the JSS Extra show at Brooklands Radio.
Following on from a charity event to raise money for this year’s Swindon and Wiltshire Pride festival that we sang at last year, we were delighted to be welcomed back for the festival, this time on the main stage in front of thousands of people!
Our JSS star, Isolde, aka Emily Taylor Smith, will be modelling jewellery from exclusive brand, GEM&TONIC, in her next video. In this article, we talk to Barbara Laws, the founder of GEM&TONIC about her business and how she has forged herself a career in designing and making jewellery for some very high profile customers.
Multi-talented Michael Carberry who played cricket for England for over 10 years, has started a new career swapping his wooden bat for a wooden pencil… and is just as good! Amanda Neale had the opportunity to catch up with the star as they talk about DJ-ing, music and what inspired Michael to try his hand on the decks (listen below). They also caught up on all things cricket and the differences between the sport and arts worlds and discussed how Michael discovered his incredible talent for sketching. Click on the YouTube link below to hear the full interview!
Continue reading “Michael Carberry, cricket sensation to artist extraordinaire…”
