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Artist
Jamie Drake
12+ albums
singer-songwriterrockfolksoulalternative pop
about
Jamie Drake is an American a folk artist from Los Angeles. With a songwriter for a father, a pentecostal church upbringing and the constant moving from place to place all contributed to her music. Drake’s span of influences are primarily drawn from male singer songwriters ranging from Neil Young to Jeff Buckley to Band of Horses lead singer, Ben Bridwell. With hints of Billie Holiday and Jonie Mitchell, Drake’s voice is something like a wine that has been waiting for the right time to be opened, and she doesn’t apologize if you can’t quite grasp what kind of earth it came from. Drake was born in Ohio, and moved to Florida, Arkansas, and South Carolina before settling in Sturgis, Michigan with her family. Her parents were hippies who grew pot in their backyard and went to church on Sunday. Jamie spent most of her time daydreaming and playing a second-hand player piano her mom had bought her when she was younger. Her family was never able to afford lessons but she formed awkward chords on those black and white keys – trying to make sense of it without direction. When the piano fell off a moving truck, it took a couple years for her to finally pick up an old Kingston guitar at a pawnshop in town and begin playing. She learned a few chords and the gift her father had given started to come alive again: she began writing her first real songs. For 10 years she wrote and sang before walking off the steps of her porch in Los Angeles two years ago, and deciding to start p
