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Jasmine Power

Jasmine was born in the early nineties to a Welsh father and an English mother in the mountains of the Lake District, England. As a child she recalls both her parents influencing her through music; her father listened to Irish and Welsh folk songs along with classics like Abba, The Beatles and Eva Cassidy and her mother loved unpredictable music. “One year I bought dad an Abba cassette tape and that was it, two years running he played it in the car on every journey we had, we would sing along together and laugh.” Her parents soon moved to a beautiful village in South West Wales where an inspirational upbringing began. Where better to exhaust her frustrated and creative energy than the wild and chilly ocean of the Welsh coast. Her surroundings were peaceful and she thrived off outdoor adventures from camping to surfing and coastal walks. Jasmine’s first attention to singing came at the age of 5 when she attended a unique, small Welsh primary school hidden in the countryside run by a headmistress who believed that singing was more important than any other lesson. “I remember sitting and watching the choir on my first day at school, I listened in awe as they sang beautifully in the Welsh language, she soon threw me in and I quickly became fluent. Singing was compulsory every morning for an hour!” This was Jasmine’s only form of vocal training until she reached 17 years old. She attended a renowned Cathedral choir that same year. Jasmine bashed away at the piano from the moment she could reach it and soon began to learn duets with her neighbour. These duets quickly turned into improvised piano pieces and by the age of 11 she was playing a bunch of music that she had written. She would play the piano most days to her heart’s content, she states that it gave her the chance to ‘zone out entirely’. It was when Jasmine began taking piano lessons with a new classical tutor aged 15 that she was taught one of the most valuable lessons, “he taught me how to teach myself anything. I would see a mass of dots and tricky rhythms on a page and know how to break it down without becoming paralysed with fear, from Beethoven to Chopin and Debussy or Scott Joplin". BIOGRAPHY Lyrics became a prominent feature in Jasmine’s life when she turned 11, she wrote books and books of words and soon met a rapper with whom she wrote and recorded a few songs.

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Jasmine Power: Stories and Rhymes EP

Read "Jasmine Power: Stories and Rhymes EP" reviewed by Phil Barnes


There's something wonderful about watching a major talent emerge blinking into the harsh spotlight of the public gaze for the first time. Of course, some find the experience so traumatic that they are never heard of again, others are unlucky finding themselves in the clutches of the unprincipled sharks that inhabit the arts every bit as much as, say, investment banking. On the strength of “Stories and Rhymes," the classy debut release from Lake District born, Welsh bred, singer Jasmine ...

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