Artist Info: Jayelldee

Jayelldee is a 21 year old musician born in Putney, London, but raised in Cwnbran, Wales. Signed to Virgin, working with Benga, TC, and a Kaiser Chief, and recently picked up by Elite for their new special bookings department.

Jayelldee perhaps hasn’t had the easiest time of it growing up. Half Welsh and half Jamaican, she grew up with only her mum in the small Welsh town, was bullied for being mixed race, faced the death of her best friend at age 17 [read more...]