Jamie Lawson (born December 1, 1975, in St Budeaux, Plymouth) is an English… Read Full Bio ↴Jamie Lawson (born December 1, 1975, in St Budeaux, Plymouth) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was the first artist to be signed by Ed Sheeran's record label, Gingerbread Man Records. Lawson is best known for his hit single, "Wasn't Expecting That", and his self-titled album which peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart in 2015.
A musician and lyricist of uncommon and mature gift, and one blessed with a gloriously fluid and expressive voice, Lawson was born and raised in Plymouth in what was he says a resolutely non-musical household. “No-one sang or played anything. We didn’t have any records. My dad would listen to Radio 2 a bit but that was the extent of it. And this was back in the days before the station got really good. There was nothing in what I heard that spoke directly to me.” Then the elder of his two brothers hit adolescence and things began to change: “He got me into The Smiths, The Housemartins, the Jackson 5 ...” A disparate trio of early influences, you might think, but Jamie says not really. “They’re all very big on melody. And Morrissey and the young Michael Jackson both have a real passion to the way they sing.”
Aged eight, he asked for and received his first guitar. Early on in secondary school, he was invited to join his first band. “We were quite a dedicated little bunch, rehearsing every lunchtime when the rest of the class was out playing football. It was pretty much all covers, of course ... R.E.M., the Chilli Peppers, some Hendrix. By the time I was 15 we had quite a wide repertoire of other people’s badly-done songs.” He was writing material of his own too, “all of it terrible to start with, of course. I’d be 17 at least before I came up with anything good.” And he was singing, though mainly in unconscious impersonation of Michael Stipe. “My own voice took a while to find. I had to stop trying to replicate someone else’s tricks.”
When he did properly uncover it, that voice proved to be something very special indeed. No one who has heard him sing live would disagree (and in addition to his own regular schedule of gigging, he has played with artists including The Frames, Martha Wainwright and Damien Rice, as well as having been chosen as opening act for outdoor gigs by both Van Morrison and Katie Melua). Even-keeled, even undemonstrative offstage, he comes alive in front of an audience and in the service of his songs. “American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel has been a big influence, in the sense that he sings with his whole body and puts so much into his performance. The difference is that my voice is sweeter and more pure.”
There was a brief and half-hearted attempt at following a different career path. But unhappy and unfulfilled in his earliest weeks at Art College, Lawson sought the advice of a counsellor who then asked him, ‘So what do you want to do with your life?’ “And when I said that I wanted to be a singer she told me, ‘Then go and do it!’ which totally surprised me but which was absolutely the right thing to say. I met that woman just once and for five minutes. I don’t even know her name. But she showed me what I had to do.” And via a geographically circuitous route that has taken in Dublin, Cornwall and now London and during which both his song writing skills and stagecraft have increased by leaps and bounds, he has done it.
Lawson is not just a singer but also an exceptionally blessed and affecting one. His voice and songs have proven to work equally beautifully and well whether in a tiny indoor venue like London’s 12 Bar Club or outdoors before 10,000 people. “And the simple fact is that I love to sing,” he says. “I love the intimacy of live performance. I love drawing people into my mood. I love bringing them to where I am.”
Alan Jackson.
The Times
London.
A musician and lyricist of uncommon and mature gift, and one blessed with a gloriously fluid and expressive voice, Lawson was born and raised in Plymouth in what was he says a resolutely non-musical household. “No-one sang or played anything. We didn’t have any records. My dad would listen to Radio 2 a bit but that was the extent of it. And this was back in the days before the station got really good. There was nothing in what I heard that spoke directly to me.” Then the elder of his two brothers hit adolescence and things began to change: “He got me into The Smiths, The Housemartins, the Jackson 5 ...” A disparate trio of early influences, you might think, but Jamie says not really. “They’re all very big on melody. And Morrissey and the young Michael Jackson both have a real passion to the way they sing.”
Aged eight, he asked for and received his first guitar. Early on in secondary school, he was invited to join his first band. “We were quite a dedicated little bunch, rehearsing every lunchtime when the rest of the class was out playing football. It was pretty much all covers, of course ... R.E.M., the Chilli Peppers, some Hendrix. By the time I was 15 we had quite a wide repertoire of other people’s badly-done songs.” He was writing material of his own too, “all of it terrible to start with, of course. I’d be 17 at least before I came up with anything good.” And he was singing, though mainly in unconscious impersonation of Michael Stipe. “My own voice took a while to find. I had to stop trying to replicate someone else’s tricks.”
When he did properly uncover it, that voice proved to be something very special indeed. No one who has heard him sing live would disagree (and in addition to his own regular schedule of gigging, he has played with artists including The Frames, Martha Wainwright and Damien Rice, as well as having been chosen as opening act for outdoor gigs by both Van Morrison and Katie Melua). Even-keeled, even undemonstrative offstage, he comes alive in front of an audience and in the service of his songs. “American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel has been a big influence, in the sense that he sings with his whole body and puts so much into his performance. The difference is that my voice is sweeter and more pure.”
There was a brief and half-hearted attempt at following a different career path. But unhappy and unfulfilled in his earliest weeks at Art College, Lawson sought the advice of a counsellor who then asked him, ‘So what do you want to do with your life?’ “And when I said that I wanted to be a singer she told me, ‘Then go and do it!’ which totally surprised me but which was absolutely the right thing to say. I met that woman just once and for five minutes. I don’t even know her name. But she showed me what I had to do.” And via a geographically circuitous route that has taken in Dublin, Cornwall and now London and during which both his song writing skills and stagecraft have increased by leaps and bounds, he has done it.
Lawson is not just a singer but also an exceptionally blessed and affecting one. His voice and songs have proven to work equally beautifully and well whether in a tiny indoor venue like London’s 12 Bar Club or outdoors before 10,000 people. “And the simple fact is that I love to sing,” he says. “I love the intimacy of live performance. I love drawing people into my mood. I love bringing them to where I am.”
Alan Jackson.
The Times
London.
Fall Into Me
Jamie Lawson Lyrics
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Akari Hayami 閃光で消えそうな視界 霧と化す感情フラットする平衡感 幻影は揺らぐ見えないスタイル まるで神話のような浮遊感 回想するス…
Alev Lenz Follow me, I'll show you the way Out of this blue Out of…
Arrient She had heard what I said, and she had no…
Brantley Gilbert A whisper away from changin' everything But is it safe to…
Countdown And you can dance For inspiration Come on I'm waiting Get in…
Emerson Drive Right here waiting Staying strong Come and Fall into me You…
Forest Blakk The day that I met you The world had just spit…
Hayami Akari 閃光で消えそうな視界 霧と化す感情フラットする平衡感 幻影は揺らぐ見えないスタイル まるで神話のような浮遊感 回想するス…
Hey Monday I was looking through the chair You were looking through th…
NGHTMRE So baby, won't you fall? So baby, won't you fall? Oh, can't…
Peyton Parrish My heart is high of clouds The presence of your love For…
Sepiamusic i'm full of amazement 'bout what i've become changes insid…
Slander & Nghtmre So baby, won't you fall? So baby, won't you fall? Oh, can't…
Sofubi-P (Scandi) (Hey…it sound like…vortex) (25) Worry bout you Don'…
Sugarland When the weight of the world Breaks down so strong it Leaves…
Taylor Swift & Emerson Drive Right here waiting, staying strong Come and fall into me Yo…
The Chain Gang of 1974 We're not alone And all we left behind Is just a memory Of…
早見あかり 閃光で消えそうな視界 霧と化す感情フラットする平衡感 幻影は揺らぐ見えないスタイル まるで神話のような浮遊感 回想するス…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Jamie Lawson:
...But Love Me Can we locate where we went wrong? It's driving me crazy It'…
A Darkness It was only a smile but my heart it went…
Ahead of Myself Don't wanna get ahead of myself But isn't this grand? Don't …
All Is Beauty There inside a moment of time I was thinking we were…
Almost All the Time Difficult as time is, I know this will heal. I can…
Brave Jesus, do I miss her. If she were mine to miss,…
Bruises An incision of the heart Another blood vessel burst You walk…
But Love Me Can we locate where we went wrong? It's driving me crazy It'…
Can't See Straight Shooting stars shining down on your face Dancing in the moon…
Cold in Ohio This city's always moving Nothing stays still Somebody's alw…
Don't Let Me Let You Go I know I make mistakes and I can let you…
Footprints in the Snow It's cold outside like I've never known I hold you knowing…
I Wasn't Expecting That It was only a smile but my heart it went…
I'm Gonna Love You From the way we often are From my hotel to the…
In Our Own Worlds We weathered the silence, weathered the storms. Weathered th…
Last Night Stars Last night stars are faded There's only a bright blue sky Co…
North Shore I go down to the North Shore Not far now from…
Oh What A Foolish Me Everthing is bound to fade if you give it time Everything…
Panic Attacks Opening Wounds that we broke are easily mended. I wrote you …
Petals I will hold your clothes, watch you as you swim. Naked…
Real Thing Call me if you need someone to hold you close You…
Seven Given the chances missed it. Given that fate must be twiste…
Some Ships Some say the day is done just as the sun…
Someone For Everyone All my friends and lovers, there's something I'd like to…
Still Yours This heart has been broken This heart has been fixed This he…
The Answer If I ask too many questions It′s cause I can't quite…
The Last Time If it's the last thing that you do If it's the…
The Only Conclusion I've been walking these streets In the finest of rain I'm so…
The Touch of Your Hand Well it bent and it bent til it finally broke And…
The Years In Between Quiet conversations Words that broke the air Distant observa…
This Is Love Well I can't hold on But I won't let go I am…
Union St Opening Sara, when did you grow up? Did you throw up over…
Use Somebody I've been roaming around Always looking down at all I see Pa…
Wasn It was only a smile but my heart it went…
Wheat for Billie Underneath near where I stand Found a brand new point of…
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Fay linn
This has to be the immense song I heard you singing in Wembley last summer. I love the power that you do put in when you are performing live. It reminded me of U2. Please keep it up with this kind of engergy!
Maria Menegas
Love this song Jamie! I'd like to thank Ed for having you on his label and letting your music be heard around the world. Your voice is so unique and amazing. By the way, I love "Can't See Straight" . It's such a beautiful song.❤❤❤
Irish Eyes
This man is a total gentleman! I saw him Colwyn Bay and broke down crying at Wasn't expecting that. The man stood and checked I was not alone and that I was ok before he left the stage! Incredible voice which is even better live.
GO
SEE
THIS
MAN
LIVE!!
IndieVibes
What a song, unbelievable!!!🎵😊 Thanks Jamie!!!💗👍
Iman Elsharkawy
You deserve such a bigger following!
Leigh Gatiss
Love him he's so amazing a major talant a true gentleman ♥️♥️♥️
Irish Eyes
agreed, the man is a complete gent! He is truly happy to meet and greet fans, for NOTHING, and appreciates every single person!
Pat Meruseye
The melody and expression in this one is just extraordinary! Amazing..
Superjules
Love this !!
Cali Sam
Such a beautiful song! Great Job Jamie!