Banks (singer)

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Banks (2014)
Banks (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Goddess
  DE 18th 09/19/2014 (3 weeks)
  AT 47 09/19/2014 (1 week)
  CH 12 09/14/2014 (3 weeks)
  UK 20th 09/20/2014 (2 weeks)
  US 12 
gold
gold
09/27/2014 (13 weeks)
The altar
  DE 56 07/10/2016 (1 week)
  CH 38 10/09/2016 (1 week)
  UK 24 10/13/2016 (1 week)
  US 17th 10/22/2016 (2 weeks)
III
  DE 60 07/19/2019 (1 week)
  CH 41 07/21/2019 (1 week)
  UK 57 July 25, 2019 (1 week)
  US 21st 07/27/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Waiting game
  UK 99 01/18/2014 (1 week)
Beggin for Thread
  DE 64 09/19/2014 (7 weeks)
Jillian Banks' signature

Banks (* 16th June 1988 in Orange County , California as Jillian Rose Banks ) is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles .

Career

Jillian Banks grew up in Los Angeles in the Tarzana district . As a teenager, she taught herself to play the piano on a gift toy instrument. She wrote her own songs to deal with her personal experiences, first of all her parents' divorce.

At the beginning of 2013 she published the song Before I Ever Met You on the Internet and within a short time she got record deals in England and the USA with Good Years and Harvest Records . In September 2013 the EP London was released , which made it to number 6 on the US Heatseeker charts. She also went on tour with The Weeknd as a support. Her use of her song Waiting Game in a commercial for the fashion brand Victoria's Secret brought her further fame . In early 2014, she was voted number 3 in its sound-of- predictions for the most promising musicians for the year ahead by the BBC . The song Waiting Game then made it into the expanded Top 100 of the British charts.

While she was working on her debut album, Banks completed a tour of England in spring 2014 and performed at well-known festivals such as Coachella and Bonnaroo . Before the album was released, the single Beggin for Thread was released , which was a respectable success in Germany. The album entitled Goddess was released in early September and reached the top 20 in Germany, Great Britain and Australia, among others. At the end of September 2016, their second album, The Altar, was released .

Their music is described as a mix of indie electropop and R&B .

Discography

Albums

  • 2014: Goddess
  • 2016: The Altar
  • 2019: III

EPs

  • 2013: Fall Over
  • 2013: London

Songs

  • 2013: Before I Ever Met You
  • 2013: Warm Water
  • 2013: Waiting Game (US:goldgold)
  • 2014: Brain
  • 2014: Drowning
  • 2014: Beggin for Thread (US:platinumplatinum)
  • 2015: Better
  • 2016: Fuck with Myself
  • 2016: Gemini Feed
  • 2016: Mind Games
  • 2016: To the Hilt
  • 2017: Crowded Places
  • 2017: Underdog
  • 2019: Gimme
  • 2019: Contaminated

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ a b Awards: US
  3. ^ A b the Sleepers of Music Midtown , Cameron Washington, The Signal, September 14, 2014
  4. ↑ BBC Sound of 2014: Banks , Mark Savage, BBC, Jan. 8, 2014
  5. ↑ Official Singles Chart UK Top 100 , January 18, 2014 edition
  6. ↑ Alexis Waltz: Banks "The Altar" / Review. (No longer available online.) In: spex.de. September 28, 2016, archived from the original on September 30, 2016 ; accessed on September 30, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  7. ↑ Keep an eye (and ear) on these artists: Banks, Chance , Patrick Ryan, USA Today, February 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Banks
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Banks, Jillian Rose (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange County , California , United States