Already at the age of 8, Jessy started singing. Since her parents are musicians, a musical career for Jessy was the first logical choice. As her parents were performing with "Willy Sommers" (a well-known Belgian artist) every weekend, he asked Jessy to record a single with him. This single was called "Twee Vrienden" (Two friends) and scored pretty good in the Belgian charts.
About a year and a half later, "Marijn De Valck" (also the top of the Belgian entertainment), who lived in the same town as Jessy, asked her to record a song called "Vang het licht" (catch the light). All the money earned with this song, was donated to the Belgian Federation of Autism. In the meanwhile Jessy's parents started their own band, "Jennifer Band" in which Jessy started singing at the age of 12.
In 1996 Jessy meets The Mackenzie, with whom she produces her first dance-single I am free, which turned out to be a big clubhit. In 1998 they attack the charts again with Love and You got to get up which are slightly different because of the amount of lyrics in the songs.
It is in June of 1998 that Innocence was released, the biggest hit Mackenzie featuring Jessy ever had, selling more than 25 000 copies in Belgium, earning them a golden CD. Being the longest registered song in the charts of 1998, Mackenzie featuring Jessy received the ULTRATOP DANCE CHART AWARD 1998. In September of that same year they release "Falling in love", with this song another golden CD was achieved.
Only 2 months later there is Alive, and in April of 1999 Out of control is released. The same month the album Angel writes history, after only 3 weeks, the album goes straight to number 1, which has never been achieved with any dance-album in Belgium. Angel also won the TMF-award for BEST ALBUM OF 1999. Jessy was also nominated for best female singer and best dance-act.
In August of 1999 The rain is released. The success of the group is enormous so one could see Jessy on national television or in interviews all the time. With the group she does at least 4 shows per weekend. After this busy summer, in December there is Emotions, followed in April of 2000 by Be my lover.
In September 2000 the single For you is released. In December of 2000 Mackenzie released All I need, which scores almost as good as Innocence and Falling in love. And then finally, the last single together with Mackenzie, Walk away, is released in April 2001.
After this really busy period Jessy decides to have a break in her career and to regain fun in performing as a singer. In this period she starts doing guest performances in a coverband called Made In Belgium and she has a lot of fun doing this. After several proposals from all over Europe, she decides to start a new project with Belgian most famous producers Regi Penxten and Filip Vandueren. (The names behind Milk Inc.,Sylver, Flesh & Bones etc.)
The three start working on a new single, for which Jessy wrote the lyrics herself again. The first single Look @ me now is released on vinyl in July 2002 and on CD in August 2002. Look @ me now is released by AGM, the studio and record company where Regi and Filip are doing most of their productions. Together with a total new look and a superb videoclip, the new Jessy starts a new and hopefully even bigger career.
On stage Jessy is one of the few singers in the dance-scene that sings live. During the show she is accompanied by some of the best dancers in Belgium, doing their performance on a choreography by Isabelle Bequest.
Look @ me now was in the Belgian Ultratop charts for more then 20 weeks ! (that's 5 months!) It topped at #8. Because of the big success the successor Enchanted was first delayed with a few months and eventually not released because by that time the UK promotion of Look @ me now started! Performances around Europe (UK, Holland, Spain) were done. For the French market Regardez-Moi was released, a french translation of Look @ me now.
You can find Enchanted on a few compilation CDs and it'll offcourse be included on the forthcoming album!
Beginning of July 2003 marks the latest release of Jessy. Head over heels first chart results (#26 in second week) promise a nice future!
At this moment Jessy, Regi and Filip are working hard on a new album!
Missing
Jessy Lyrics
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I´m walkin´ down your street again
And pass your door
But you don´t live there anymore
It´s years since you´ve been there
And now you´ve disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You´ve found some better place
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead
Of ev´ryone
We´d walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout
down to me
Where I always used to be
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
Back on the train
I ask why did I come again
I´ve been hangin´ round your old address
And the years have proved
To offer nothin´ since you moved
You´re long gone
But I can´t move on
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
I step off the train
I´m walkin´ down your street again
Pass your door
I guess you don´t live there anymore
It´s years since you´ve been there
And now you´ve disappeared somewhere
Like outer space
You´ve found some better place
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you yeahh
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain
"Missing" by British pop singer Jessy is about the pain of longing for someone who's no longer around. The song describes the singer's journey walking down the street of someone they miss, who doesn't live there anymore. They contemplate whether or not the person has passed away, as they were always steps ahead of everyone else. The singer stands outside the house and remembers how the person used to shout down to them when they were there. This memory serves only to accentuate their sense of loss. Despite the fact that the memory is years old and their friend has moved on, the singer can't bring themselves to do the same. They still miss the person, like how deserts miss rain.
Line by Line Meaning
I step off the train
The singer arrives at a location where they spent time with the person they miss.
I´m walkin´ down your street again
The singer is revisiting familiar places in search of the person they miss.
And pass your door
The singer walks past the door of the person they miss.
But you don´t live there anymore
The person the artist misses is no longer living in the same place.
It´s years since you´ve been there
It has been a long time since the person the artist misses has lived in that location.
And now you´ve disappeared somewhere
The person the singer misses has disappeared and is no longer in contact.
Like outer space
The person the singer misses might as well be unreachable in outer space.
You´ve found some better place
The artist imagines the person they miss has found a better place than where they used to be.
And I miss you
The artist deeply misses the person they are thinking about.
Like the deserts miss the rain
The artist's longing for the person they miss is as intense as a desert's need for rain.
Could you be dead?
The singer wonders if the reason they haven't heard from the person they miss is because they are no longer alive.
You always were two steps ahead
The person the artist misses was always ahead of them in life.
Of ev´ryone
The person the singer misses was ahead of everyone they knew.
We´d walk behind while you would run
The singer had trouble keeping up with the person they miss.
I look up at your house
The singer looks up at the house where the person they miss used to live.
And I can almost hear you shout down to me
The artist imagines they can hear the person they miss yelling to them from the house.
Where I always used to be
The artist was always present in the place the person they miss is associated with.
Back on the train
The singer is returning home after their unsuccessful search.
I ask why did I come again
The singer questions their decision to come back and look for the person they miss.
I´ve been hangin´ round your old address
The artist has been spending time around the old address of the person they miss.
And the years have proved
Over the years, the artist has discovered that nothing has changed since the person they miss disappeared.
To offer nothin´ since you moved
There is nothing left for the artist at this location since the person they miss moved away.
You´re long gone
The person the singer misses has been gone for a long time.
But I can´t move on
The artist is unable to move on from their deep longing for the person they miss.
And I miss you yeahh
The singer expresses once again how deeply they miss the person they are thinking about.
Like the deserts miss the rain
The singer describes the intensity of their longing for the person they miss as being like a desert's need for rain.
And I miss you
The singer repeats once more how much they miss the person they are thinking about.
Like the deserts miss the rain
The artist compares their longing for the person they miss to a desert's need for rain.
Writer(s): Mark Leonard, John Waite, Charles Sandford Copyright: Alley Music A/C Paperwaite Music
Contributed by Cooper E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.