“The industry was so overwhelming at the beginning. I didn’t know where to start”
JIN JIN
THE JIN GENIE
As the fi rst ever winner of the Women In Music Music Creative award, Janée Bennett is making history. The star songwriter known as Jin Jin is also making hits, and lots of them. She tells Music Week her secrets…
T 26 | MusicWeek 12.11.18 ------------ BY BEN HOMEWOOD ------------
he sky darkens above Cable Street in East London, as music student Janée Bennett is en route to a songwriting session with Roll Deep. She’s apprehensive, but she holds her nerve and heads into the studio.
“There were about 15 people in the room and I’d never done a session before,” Bennett tells Music Week. “I wrote a song called Do Me Wrong
and I featured on it.”
It sounds simple, but Bennett’s first foray into songwriting came while she was studying music industry management and marketing at the University Of Buckingham. She’d taken a place on the course because it brought her south from Manchester – where her family ran a reggae record shop and she grew up avidly consuming pop, house, indie and more – closer to London and the music business she was seeking a way into.
“You’ve just got to be brave,” she says. “I was intimidated and shy at first but you just have to have a word with yourself and say ‘Right, come on, this is a great opportunity, you need to go and do this.’”
musicweek.com
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