Jo hamilton
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Posted a new song: "Write Honestly" http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/6846357
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Born to a Jamaican mother and Kenyan father of Shetland heritage, between the ages of one and three years old Jo was raised in Saudi Arabia along with her older siblings who were educated at home by their mother. From the age of three, Jo was brought up in a remote part of the Highlands of Scotland where the nearest neighbour was two miles away and peaty drinking water came straight off the mountain behind the house. With no television to amuse or distract until she was ten years old, her world was the outdoors; looking for newts and adding mental soundtracks to the movements of the animals in the wilderness; picking out tunes on an old upright piano, and singing with her sisters.
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At a time of collective reconsideration, Jo’s music is a breath of fresh air, a call to hope and the type of subtly profound record that stays with you. Influenced by a semi-nomadic upbringing in Scotland, Turkey, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, her songs are filled with observations of the world both large and tiny - from grief and global warming to the happy dogs of Sri Lanka; from mountains in Scotland to beetles in Kuwait which have extra long legs because of the heat.
Her music exudes empathy. It is a commentary reflecting our own hopes, our glories and our tragedies; a commentary which manages to harness the overwhelming nostalgic emotion of the old Gaelic lullabies of her childhood and apply it unflinchingly to a complex multicultural world of iPods and urbanism - often with devastating effect. She has the ability to bring rare emotional depth to bear on the modern world, and remind us that underneath it we are all the same, and the same things matter that have always mattered. She is truly an artist fit for the 21st century.
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