James Bay Profile

James Bay ProfileResearch

James Michael Bay

English singer, songwriter and guitarist.

From Hitchin

His music has meaning and emotion behind it

Bay began to know that he loved guitars when he was the ae of 11

Chaos and the Calm album went to number one in UK and number 15 in the US

Brit award: “Critics” choice

Inspired to play guitar due to hearing Eric Clapton’s “Layla”

Caught the attention of Republic Records A&R when a fan uploaded a video of Bay performing

First ever EP was The Dark of the Morning in 2013

Performed at many various festivals and events like Glastonbury and V Festival

“I’m still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror”

“It’s silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I’m not like that”

“It’s bad to be labelled just another singer-songwriter”

“How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I’m also trying to be”

The first quote talks about how although he may’ve grown up with a great profession he’s still a kid at heart and doesn’t want to be treated any differently to other people. The second quote shows how James isn’t egotistical and still thinks of himself as new to the career meaning that he stills has judgement of how good he is even though he has many fans/followers. In the third quote it mentions about how he is already being labelled for being another singer-songwriter which he finds unfair as he is only new to the career meaning they don’t know what he’s like. In the final quote he talks about how his music is very different to others as he tries to keep it as real and as honest as possible so that it relates to people more who listen to his songs. Also he mentions how his songs symbolise his personality of being honest and how he’s not fake like some artist may be

Quotes by James Bay