Jack Peñate

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Jack Peñate at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Matinee
  UK 7th 
gold
gold
10/20/2007 (12 weeks)
Everything is new
  UK 16 04/07/2009 (7 weeks)
Singles
Torn on the platform
  UK 7th 06/30/2007 (12 weeks)
Second, minute or hour
  UK 17th 09/29/2007 (7 weeks)
Have I Been a Fool?
  UK 73 12/22/2007 (4 weeks)
Tonight's Today
  UK 23 04/11/2009 (3 weeks)
Be the one
  UK 35 06/27/2009 (3 weeks)
Pull My Heart Away
  UK 99 09/05/2009 (1 week)

Jack Fabian Peñate [ pənˈjɑːteɪ ] (born September 2, 1984 in London ) is a British singer-songwriter.

Live and act

Peñate grew up in an artistic family; he is himself the grandson of the writer Mervyn Peake . When he was nine he was in the musical Oliver! in the West End of London as a member of the youth gang. As a teenager, he played with school friends in a band called Jack's Basement . The later Maccabees guitarist Felix White was one of them.

During his university days, where he embarked on a hopeless study of Latin, which he finally gave up, he started a musical solo career. He signed a contract with the Young Turks label and released his debut single Second, Minute or Hour , which immediately launched him successfully. The larger indie label XL Recordings then signed him and released his debut album Matinée . It reached number 7 in the UK charts, as did the first single, Torn on the Platform .

While Peñate's first album still contained pop music in the tradition of the 1980s with influences from ska to rockabilly, he made a major change in style for his second album and accordingly named it Everything Is New . African and Brazilian elements and even house are included and the guitar is no longer the main instrument. Although this album and two singles also hit the charts, it lagged behind his debut.

Jack Peñate has two accompanying musicians, bassist Joel Porter and drummer Alex Robins, with whom he always performs.

With artists like Lily Allen , Jamie T , Kate Nash , Adele , he is often counted among the group of artists who sing in " Estuary English ". This is a style developed by young British musicians in 2006/2007 where they do not lose their original accent while singing, as many other artists do.

Discography

Albums

  • Matinée (2007)
  • Everything Is New (2009)
  • After You (2019)

Singles

  • Second, Minute or Hour (2006)
  • Spit at Stars (EP, 2007)
  • Torn on the Platform (2007)
  • Have I Been a Fool? (2007)
  • Tonight's Today (2009)
  • Be the One (2009)

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ Mervyn Peake biography - The Peake Family
  4. ↑ Jack Penate takes on Lily Allen and Adele , Times, March 28, 2009
  5. ↑ 'I was outsellung the Boss' , The Sun, October 19th 2007
  6. ↑ Jack Peñate: Everything new, everything is good  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münsterländische Volkszeitung@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mv-online.de  
  7. ↑ Jack Peñate's entry at motor.de ( memento of the original from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / jack_penate.motor.de

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personal data
SURNAME Peñate, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peñate, Jack Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH London