Ep. 134: Jin Jin

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest boasts a more diverse catalogue and interesting journey than your average songwriter. With multi-platinum hits across genres, her own label/publishing/management company, Jinsing, and a Senior A&R position at Parlophone Records, she has achieved so much since hanging out in her Grandad’s reggae shop as a child. Recognising the early talent of the now seven times #1 artist Jess Glynne whilst hosting a song-writing masterclass at Jess’s college, our guest went on to co-write the UK No. 1’s ‘Hold My Hand’ which led to her Ivor Novello nominations and to her winning a BMI Award. She has gone on to collaborate with a host of international producers and artists and recently co-wrote the 2021 UEFA Championship x Pepsi anthem ‘Rotate’ by Burna Boy and Becky G. Other collaborators include producers such as Fraser T Smith, Toby Gad, Stephen Di Genius, Diplo and David Guetta, and artists Jax Jones, Paloma Faith & Sigala, RAYE, Madison Beer, Sean Paul, Rita Ora, Clean Bandit, Craig David, Gary Barlow, Jennifer Lopez & Maluma, Joel Corry and Hailee Steinfeld. In recognition of her achievements she was nominated for Songwriter Of The Year at the Music Business Worldwide Awards 2018, and won the “Music Creative” Award at Music Week's 2018 Women In Music event. She also recently won her second BMI award for Madison Beer’s ‘Home With You’ and joined the board of Directors of the prestigious Ivors Academy in 2020. And The Writer Is… Jin Jin!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with hundreds
0:15.7	of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session is the first
0:20.1	hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever. So this is
0:26.0	a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly,
0:31.7	who the people are, who write the songs. I'm producing this with the great Joe London,
0:36.3	big deal music publishing, and mega house music management. If you want to listen to
0:40.4	the songs we discuss in this podcast, follow us on our socials, find out about special
0:46.2	live events, or buy that merch aka that had I always wear. Go to our website www.andthewriteris.com
0:56.4	Welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. Today's entrepreneurial discoverer
1:02.7	of talent is an artist, a music executive, an advocate in addition to what's that called.
1:09.3	A hit songwriter, making waves from across the pond, she has scooped up Brit and Ivernavello
1:16.1	award nominations and is currently on the board of the latter. Her mastery of talent recognition
1:22.2	was first exemplified by developing one of the United Kingdom's top of the chart talents,
1:27.1	Jess Glyn. This explains why she has now been bestowed the senior A&R position at one of the
1:34.0	UK's biggest labels, Parlephone. Originally from Manchester, England across the Atlantic sea,
1:40.5	she has proven she can do it all whilst still being creative. And The Writer Is,
1:46.3	Janae Bennett aka Jin Jin. I haven't seen you, we probably haven't seen each other for like
1:59.1	five years or something. So long, yeah. I think it was, where was it? Westlake, Westlake
2:04.4	Studios, MLA. Classic. I mean, it's so cool when you get to work in studios where I mean,
2:11.8	that's obviously the off the wall for Michael Jackson kind of studio and stuff like that.
2:18.6	Crazy. And then obviously from the UK coming over to L.A. to do writing sessions and then
2:25.0	being in a studio like that, I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. I was so jet lagged,
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