Rosie Jones is an nineteen-year-old singer/songwriter with a weakness for acoustic guitars, harmonicas and handclaps. A lively, exciting clash between pop, rock, folk and country - Her music is the product of growing up with The Spice Girls, learning guitar to Nirvana and seeing KT Tunstall in concert more times than what would be considered sane.
Rosie grew up in a tiny village in Devon, England where there wasn't really anything to do except sit around in her room and dream of being a famous rock star. At the age of three, her parents took her for rhythm lessons, where she subsequently developed her love for handclaps and banging on things that, in 15 years, has never gone away.
After taking up acoustic guitar at the age of 12 "to look cool in front of boys", she got really into Michelle Branch who pretty much changed her life. She started writing and gigging as much as possible, playing anywhere that would have her. From the pub down the road, to summer festivals and dodgy dive bars, to band nights “sandwiched between sweaty new-indie bands and wannabe sweaty new-indie-kid-DJs”, to drunken 18th birthday parties and really obscure folk nights at art centres “in front of 3 hippies and a stray dog”.
Rosie studied A-levels in Music Performance and Technology at college in Devon, where she recorded her debut album, "Places I Have Never Been", on North Devon-based indie label Cheeky Monkey Records, as well as going on to write and record a song with Jonothan and Wendy Joseph (best known for co-writing with and managing her daughter, Joss Stone). Rosie currently resides in Liverpool, where she is completing a BA(hons) degree in Music at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a school set up by Paul McCartney, "and loving every minute of it".
Despite her fondness for sitting in her bedroom writing songs in her pajamas, Rosie confesses that her true love is performing her songs to an audience, live. Her performances have been
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