OT: Jesse Clegg

The album is available in stores now and will soon be available as a download on the Jesse Clegg website www.jesseclegg.com.

Jesse Clegg makes a music video
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrEp99iHoM

Oct 1st 2008 sees the release of Jesse's debut album, When I Wake Up. Samples of the songs are available here on the site. Check the music page for more samples from the new release...

Oct 08: Today entered the Highveld Homebrew charts at no. 1

The album is available in stores now and will soon be available as a download on the Jesse Clegg website www.jesseclegg.com.

The video for the first single “Today” is currently in production and should be released by the end of October. It will also be available to view online here.

Carte Blanche will be airing an interview with Jesse and Johnny Clegg discussing and sharing ideas about Jesse’s new album. This should be aired for the first time at the end of October 2008. Jesse will be performing a rare acoustic version of the single “Today” on the show, a preview of which will be available online.

Look out for the new Carte Blanche 20th Anniversary advertisement which features Today in it.

Watch this space for live performance info.

Bio:

Jesse was born in Johannesburg in 1988. By the time he was six months old he was on tour with his father, Johnny Clegg, and between 1988 and 1994 he spent at least 5 months a year on the road. He was a classic road kid and grew up backstage and on tour buses.

Early on, Jesse carved out an independent direction for himself in the rock genre, very different from the world music style developed by his father. He strived to express himself in the most authentic way possible and understood the importance of being able to perform live. He experimented with a number of different instruments - which included saxophone, clarinet, drums and piano – until he settled and focused mainly on guitar. By seventeen, songwriting was his chief musical focus and it was in this period and the years to follow that he honed his writing skills and put together the songs recorded on the first album.

The single "Today" which was released on radio in mid August 2008 debuted at number one on the Highveld Homebrew Chart, a considerable feat for a debut artist with a debut single and an historical first for Homebrew. The album "When I Wake Up" is due for national release on 1 October.