Graham J. is a unique and powerful singer. 

He plays Nell’s Jazz and Blues Club in London this Wednesday at 8.30pm

Graham also plays three shows at London Pride in June including a spot on the Trafalgar Square main stage. The dates are 16th June on Carnaby Street, 25th and 26th June on Wardour Street and Trafalgar Square.

His new single Into My Arms is released early May via Crashed Records.

On his debut album Wild Is... Graham explores elements of jazz, blues, classical and alternative contemporary. The avant-garde, almost vaudevillian, presentation underlies themes of evolution and transformation which define the work. The strictures of Graham's extensive operatic career as a rarely found tenore contraltino, though strongly acknowledged, are overthrown by his love of a broader breadth of influences including Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey and Karen Carpenter. A sense of mourning, loss and ultimately resolution permeate Graham's choice of repertoire echoing the work of truly indefinable characters like Rufus Wainright, Antony and the Johnsons, Bjork.

Graham is a native of Dublin, Ireland.

“Numbers like ‘Summertime’ found Norton riffing and flouting vocal feathers over swanky jazz arrangements” : The Thin Air

Graham's debut single “INTO MY ARMS” is due for release in the UK on Friday, 6th May 2016 and is taken from the fortcoming album ‘WILD IS…’ (coming this July).  Graham will performs his own headline show at THE KPH on Wednesday, 27th April 2016.

Graham explains why he chose this song; “Paul Murphy, of Electric Penguins, suggested that I try my hand at singing NickCave's “Into My Arms”. I'm extremely grateful that he did. I'd never heard the song before but the words and simple melody struck me instantly. Cave wrote this beautiful ballad after he ended two successive relationships. The first being his long-term relationship with Viviane Carneiro and the second his subsequent brief relationship with English musician P.J Harvey. For me, this is a romantic torch song. When I perform it I remember lovers in the past and the challenges we faced to stay together. I think it resonates with a lot of people.”

LINKS : www.grahamj.eu       /     www.twitter.com/@grahamjsings