Jessie Malakouti

Girls Aloud hit-makers Xenomania give birth to pop’s next prodigy

“Jessie is destined for quite big things - her songs are pretty incredible. 'Standing Up For The Lonely' is a defiant modern disco record with a slightly mournful, triumph-over-adversity element.”  Popjustice

You don’t mess with Jessie Malakouti. Anyone who leaves home at 16 to live out of her car surely has an attitude to be reckoned with. Her debut album sees Jesse team up with perhaps the most prolific pop producers this decade, Xenomania, responsible for the majority of Girls Aloud’s back catalogue, as well as hits by Kylie, Alesha Dixon, Mini Viva, Pet Shop Boys and Cher.

Hailing from Los Angeles, Ms Malakouti, who spent the summer touring the country with The Saturdays, is not your usual valley girl. At 16, she formed the punk rock band ‘Shut Up Stella’. Working the sweaty dives and noxious clubs of Southern California with their shouty rock rap, Jessie lead her motley crew to a record deal, even playing on the same bill as the likes of ‘Muse’ and ‘The Killers’.

Then things started to change. ‘I just wasn’t in the same head space anymore,’ says Jessie, ‘They wanted to carry on making angry music and I was writing happy pop songs’. And so they disbanded. A chance meeting with Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper brought Jessie to England to write with one of the UK’s most exciting production teams, Xenomania.

Involved in the music world since the age of 12, Jesse is no stranger to the hard graft that the music industry requires. ‘I ain’t afraid of working my ass off or getting my fingernails dirty… if it means at the end of the week I can afford a manicure again’, she says with her trademark cheeky glint in her eye. For a girl who’s crossed genres and written all her own music from the very start, she’s comfortable with any comparisons you want to throw at her. ‘I’d rather people love me or hate me, nothing in between thanks.’ says Jessie with a no nonsense, matter of fact tone.

For Jessie there is no mediocre, only extremes.

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