50 Fun Facts About Jessie J

Jessie J co-wrote Party in the U.S.A. for her own debut album, but which singer made it a hit?

Miley Cyrus took the song after Jessie J decided it was not edgy enough for her to perform. Its lyrics about moving to Los Angeles were rewritten to fit a girl arriving from Nashville.

Jessie J wrote Do It like a Dude with which star in mind, sending it to her own label first?

Rihanna was the target because her hit Rude Boy had partly inspired the song. Jessie J's label thought it was amazing and insisted it become her own debut single.

Jessie J had her head shaved live on television in March 2013 to raise money for which charity?

Comic Relief got the shave during Red Nose Day 2013, a promise she had first made to fans in 2011. "It's hair, it will grow back," she told them.

Which singer was the first to record Bang Bang, before Jessie J and Nicki Minaj joined the track?

Ariana Grande was offered the song first and did not like how her original recording turned out. In 2024 it became the first all-female collaboration certified diamond in the US.

In 2018 Jessie J became the first foreign winner of the televised contest Singer in which country?

China crowned her on Hunan TV's contest for professional singers, where she finished first in five of the opening ten rounds. No overseas act had won in the show's six seasons.

Jessie J graduated from the BRIT School in 2006 in the same class as which future superstar?

Adele was in the same class of 2006. Jessie J had enrolled at 16, and a year later joined a girl group that she left after deciding it was going nowhere.

Jessie J voiced Brooke, a sloth who becomes Sid's love interest, in which animated film series?

Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth film in the series, gave her the role in 2016. She also recorded a theme song, My Superstar, that was left off the soundtrack.

Jessie J fronted which rock band for one song at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony?

Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor were joined by Jessie J for We Will Rock You. She wore a long yellow jacket in homage to Freddie Mercury.

After rupturing tendons in her foot in June 2011, Jessie J performed at Glastonbury seated on what?

A throne, gilded for the occasion, first carried her through the Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium. She was still using it, leg in a cast, at that year's MTV Video Music Awards.

Which American rapper features on Price Tag, Jessie J's first UK number one single?

B.o.B added the rap verse, and the single became his third UK number one. Jessie J often performs it live with his part removed or sung by someone else.

Jessie J was an original coach on The Voice UK beside Danny O'Donoghue and which Welsh singer?

Tom Jones and Jessie J coached side by side for the first two series. She left in 2013 along with O'Donoghue, both saying touring and their own music had to come first.

Jessie J recorded the ballad Flashlight, co-written by Sia, for the soundtrack of which 2015 film?

Pitch Perfect 2 also has Hailee Steinfeld sing a version of the song on screen. Jessie J's single topped the charts in Malaysia and the Philippines and reached number 13 in the UK.

Which Jessie J single, co-written with Max Martin, became her first top ten hit in the US?

Domino reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one in the UK. She said it grew from listening to Whitney Houston and Prince and wanting a song that felt timeless and uplifting.

Which French DJ, whose track Repeat she had sung on, features on Jessie J's single Laserlight?

David Guetta offered to return the favour after her guest vocal, so the pair wrote it together. It made her the first British woman with six UK top-ten singles from one album.

Jessie J was born in 1988 and won a TV talent prize at 15 under which real name?

Jessica Cornish won Best Pop Singer on Britain's Brilliant Prodigies in 2003. At school she was the youngest of three sisters, and the two elder ones had both been head girl.

Which American actor did Jessie J date from 2018, with one split and reunion before parting in 2020?

Channing Tatum was widely assumed to be the subject of her 2025 song Threw It Away, a claim she called untrue. She said she corrected it because he would have done the same for her.

A foot injury in 2011 forced Jessie J to withdraw as the opening act on which pop star's tour?

Katy Perry, a personal friend, had booked her for the autumn 2011 leg of the California Dreams Tour. Doctors ordered Jessie J to cancel, and Ellie Goulding took the support slot instead.

Which pop star joined The Voice UK with Ricky Wilson for series three, taking Jessie J's old chair?

Kylie Minogue stayed for a single series before her own tour clashed with filming, and Rita Ora took the chair next. Jessie J had coached for the first two series.

In the Price Tag video, Jessie J appears as which figure inside a giant jewellery box?

A ballerina shares the video with an oversized teddy bear and a money tree. Listeners who called the lyric hypocritical misread it, she has said: it mocks showing off, not earning a living.

Which Jessie J single, aimed at her detractors, shares its title with a 1963 hit by Lesley Gore?

It's My Party was her answer to online haters, who she said "need love more so than anyone else". It reached the UK top five as the second single from her album Alive.

Which Black Eyed Peas member sang I Gotta Feeling with Jessie J at the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert?

will.i.am was her fellow coach on The Voice UK, and the show's coaches had already recorded the song together. The pair followed it outside Buckingham Palace with his single This Is Love.

Jessie J made her American television debut in March 2011 by performing on which show?

Saturday Night Live booked her as musical guest on an episode hosted by Zach Galifianakis, weeks after Price Tag came out in the US.

What does Jessie J call her fans, a name shared with her world tour of 2011 and 2012?

Heartbeats share their name with the Heartbeat Tour of 2011 and 2012. "Without them I wouldn't be here," she said of fans who tattoo her lyrics and cut their hair like hers.

Jessie J calls herself a girl from which county, home to her birthplace Chadwell Heath until 1965?

Essex gave up the area to London more than twenty years before she was born, but she still calls herself an Essex girl. She went to school nearby at Mayfield High in Redbridge.

Which Brit Award for 2011, announced weeks before her debut album came out, went to Jessie J?

Critics' Choice goes to the British act judged most likely to make an impact in the coming year. Within weeks she had also topped the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.

Jessie J's Do It like a Dude was named Best Song of 2011 at which British music ceremony?

MOBO Awards judges also named her Best Newcomer and Best UK Act that year, and gave Who You Are the prize for Best Album.

Which English singer co-wrote Jessie J's 2015 ballad Flashlight alongside Sia and two other writers?

Sam Smith shares the credit with Sia, Christian Guzman and Jason Moore. The single was a top-ten hit in New Zealand and earned a Best British Video nomination at the 2016 Brit Awards.

On which country's version of The Voice did Jessie J coach Ellie Drennan to victory in 2015?

Australia's fourth season made Jessie J the first female coach to win the show there. She had joined the panel that year and stayed for one more season.

Which 1980s pop star had a then-unknown Jessie J as the support act on her UK tour dates in 2008?

Cyndi Lauper invited her back on stage each night to help sing Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Jessie J was working as a songwriter at the time, after her first record label went bankrupt.

Jessie J's album R.O.S.E. stands for four themes, but she then noticed it also spelled whose name?

Her mother's name is Rose, which she said only struck her after writing out Realisations, Obsessions, Sex and Empowerment. The four parts came out on consecutive days in May 2018.

Jessie J's Price Tag stayed at UK number one for a second week, blocking which new Lady Gaga single?

Born This Way lost out by a margin of less than five per cent, as Price Tag sold more than 90,000 copies that week. Chipmunk's Champion was kept off the top at the same time.

Which Jessie J single about regretting past mistakes did she duet on with Vince Kidd on The Voice UK?

Nobody's Perfect became her third UK top ten single, peaking at number nine. The radio version was a Tom Elmhirst remix with re-recorded vocals, notably different from the album cut.

Which Jessie J single about school bullies who doubted her was released because fans pushed for it?

Who's Laughing Now replaced the title track as the fourth single from her debut album after UK fans backed its anti-bullying message. She called it her "haha" to the non-believers.

Which British rapper appears with Big Sean on the UK release of Jessie J's single Wild?

Dizzee Rascal was left off the version released in the US and elsewhere, which features Big Sean alone. Jessie J said she wanted one guest who was "really British" and one "really American".

Which Jessie J single about living up to your potential went top ten in Germany and Switzerland?

Masterpiece was written by three outside songwriters rather than by Jessie J herself. It gave her a fifth entry on the US Billboard Hot 100.

At the London 2012 closing ceremony, Jessie J sang Price Tag while circling the stadium in what?

A Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible had its roof lowered to reveal her, the first of three to lap the stadium. Tinie Tempah and Taio Cruz rode in the others, and she sang with both.

Jessie J was diagnosed with a heart condition as a child; what did it cause in her late teens?

A minor stroke in her late teens was attributed to Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Her childhood stays in hospital later inspired one of the songs on her debut album.

Which inner-ear disorder did Jessie J reveal in an Instagram post on Christmas Eve 2020?

Ménière's disease can bring severe dizziness, ringing in the ear and hearing loss. She wrote that it felt as if someone had crawled into her ear and turned a hair dryer on.

Jessie J opened which 2016 Fox television musical by performing its famous title song?

Grease: Live began with her singing Grease (Is the Word), a number created for the film version rather than the stage show. Rain on the day meant the cast performed it holding umbrellas.

As an 11-year-old, Jessie J was performing in which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in London's West End?

Whistle Down the Wind had a children's cast that also included a young Anne-Marie, another future chart star. Jessie J went on to join the National Youth Music Theatre.

Jessie J won the Singer 2018 final with which Whitney Houston hit as her last song?

I Will Always Love You was her solo encore in a final decided by audience votes alone. Dolly Parton wrote the song nearly two decades before Houston's version.

Which American rapper guests on Burnin' Up, the second single from Jessie J's album Sweet Talker?

2 Chainz arrives late in the song with a verse Jessie J had teased in an interview weeks before the release. Reviewers praised the single above all for her vocal performance.

Which R&B vocal group joins Jessie J for Winter Wonderland on her 2018 album of Christmas songs?

Boyz II Men share one of the two duets on This Christmas Day, the other being The Christmas Song with Babyface. She called making the album a "very last minute" decision.

Jessie J duetted on the 2011 single Up with which British singer, known for You Give Me Something?

James Morrison told her in the studio she was a Ferrari in fifth gear and should take it down to third. "She sang the chorus the way I should've sung it," he said.

Which male singer joins Jessie J on Calling All Hearts, the debut single by DJ Cassidy?

Robin Thicke and Jessie J sang for a DJ who made his name at celebrity parties, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z's wedding and Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration.

Which songwriter wrote Silver Lining (Crazy 'Bout You), Jessie J's theme for a 2012 film?

Diane Warren was asked to write the lead song for Silver Linings Playbook and then invited Jessie J to sing it. The singer's reply, as she tweeted it, was "obvs I said yes".

Which producer, lead writer of Party in the U.S.A., also produced Jessie J's Price Tag?

Dr. Luke wrote and produced Party in the U.S.A., with Jessie J and Claude Kelly adding to the songwriting. All three share the writing credit on Price Tag as well.

Which song on Jessie J's album Who You Are recalls a boy who died on her hospital ward?

Big White Room was the first song she ever wrote, at 17, about a hospital stay six years earlier. The album carries it as a live recording.

Jessie J co-wrote One More Try, the only original song in which jukebox musical of Max Martin hits?

& Juliet imagines Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, pushing him to rewrite his ending so the heroine lives. Jessie J sings One More Try herself on the cast recording.

Jessie J's Bang Bang lost Best Pop Duo/Group Performance to Say Something at which ceremony?

Grammy Awards voters chose the ballad by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera instead. Bang Bang did win Best Collaboration at the iHeartRadio Music Awards that year.