Jade Bird

Jade Elizabeth Bird was born in Hexham, Northumberland, where she lived until she was two. Bird and her family moved to London when she was two years old, and lived on a military base in Germany when she was five. She later moved to Bridgend, South Wales, with her mother, after the divorce of her parents, which occurred when Bird was 12. It was during this time in Wales, living with her mother and grandmother (who had also been through a divorce), that Bird began to write acoustic-based songs. At age 16, Bird began attending the BRIT School in Croydon, which she graduated from in 2016. While at the BRIT School, she performed at gigs several times a week. During her Piano Session with Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 in October 2017, she noted that she had travelled around as a child due to being in an Army family. She lived in South Wales, Chesterfield and Mönchengladbach, Germany, which had a big influence on her music.

In 2017, she was sent to tour the United States with Brent Cobb. She played a showcase event at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in March 2017 and later in the year she opened for First Aid Kit, Son Little and London Grammar. Bird's band consists of Will Rees on guitar, Matt Johnson on drums and bassist Linus Fenton. In 2017, Bird won the ANCHOR 2017 award of the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. She was also a finalist for the BBC Sound Of award in 2018. Her debut EP, Something American, was recorded in the Catskill Mountains in Palenville and Woodstock in upstate New York.

On 19 April 2019, she released her self-titled debut album. Nine months after this, the follow up album was written and completed while Bird was in New York.

Following the cancellation of her tour, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bird collaborated with Microsoft and was the first artist to take part in their RE:Surface project; a virtual live streamed concert. This was streamed on 29 May 2020. Months later, in October, she then headlined another live streamed concert. This one was called Come Together Mental Health Music Festival and was for the benefit of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. On 4 November, Bird released "Headstart", the first single from her second studio album. The song, produced by Dave Cobb, is an indie song about an infatuation that is not returned. Bird also announced a return to touring, with a headline show at Shepherd's Bush Empire in March 2021 being planned.