Junior Star Singer Songwriter magazine
The online magazine for the Junior Star Singer Songwriter competition
We’re back! And both of us are so excited to announce that on June 6th we will be releasing our 3rd single, ‘Like the river’! This is a song that we are proud to be releasing as it has been in the vault for three years now. We wrote this song when we were 13 and since then it has evolved and changed into an emotional ballad as we have revisited and adapted the song.
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Everyone has someone who inspires them, and musicians are no exception. Watch any interview with any leading musician and the chances are they will mention the person, or people, who inspired their style and made them want to go on stage and perform themselves.
In this article, I write about some of the people and bands who inspire me.
Hi everyone! It’s Emily here! I wanted to tell you about a new song I’ve written. During this terrible time of lockdown so many people have been going through so much and my heart goes out to all of you at this time.
Continue reading “Getting through the tough times with music”
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.
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.
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.
This week I managed to catch up with one of the newest members of the JSS family and his name is Charlie Gauntlett! We had a good chat about music, dreams and New York!
