JessB knows her way around a party tune, but she also knows how to bury deeper messages of sadness, loss and dislocation inside club riddims, earworm melodies and tongue-twisting rhyme schemes. Born in TΔmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, to a Kenyan father and a PΔkehΔ mother, her music explores authenticity, personal growth, and connection, with the stamina of a professional athlete, the sensitivity of a textbook cancer sign, and the unfettered creativity of an artist who embraces change.
JessB has spent the last seven years traversing Aotearoa, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, through the shared global cultures that connect hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, ragga and afrobeats. Along the way, sheβs shared stages with Kehlani, recorded with Kranium, Sister Nancy, Sampa The Great and Gold Fang, and headlined her own tours. In her hands, music and joy become something more radical than entertainment alone, infusing resistance and solidarity into every song and show.
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first live performance of my new single on ways this sat πͺπ«‘πTHEN!! SEE U THERE @afrosoul.nz
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