Jamie Lee Wilson, also known as JVMIE, is an Australian singer, songwriter and

music producer A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensu ...

. She is best known for the 2017 single Back 2 Love in collaboration with

Dave Audé Dave Audé () is an American DJ, producer and remixer. He operates his own label Audacious Records, and is known for having more number ones than any other producer on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart. He has done production for artists ...

, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Club Dance Chart and No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Dance Electronic Songs Chart.

Early life and education

Wilson was born and raised on the

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in Australia. She earned a

Bachelor of Music A Bachelor of Music (BMus; sometimes conferred as Bachelor of Musical Arts) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. The degree may be awarded for performance, music ed ...

at the

Queensland Conservatorium of Music Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (formerly the Queensland Conservatorium of Music) is a selective, audition based music school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is part of Griffith University. History The Conservatori ...

with a major in Jazz Voice, and was featured by

Triple J Unearthed Triple J Unearthed is an Australian digital radio station and online music discovery platform. It is a sister station of Triple J, owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Unearthed began in 1995 as a regional talent competition open to ...

in Australia.

Career

After completing a

at the

, Wilson relocated to London to continue her studies and went on to perform across the United Kingdom and Europe. She worked in

musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre, theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, ...

. Simultaneously, Wilson began her career writing and recording music. Wilson went on to write and record multiple dance singles, and in 2016, she relocated to Los Angeles.

Collaborations and solo records

In 2016, Wilson collaborated with Dave Audé on the single Back 2 Love which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Club Dance Chart and No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Dance Electronic Songs Chart. During the same year, Wilson was ranked No. 1 on the Los Angeles Dance Chart on ReverbNation. She has collaborated with songwriter and producer

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, house musician

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, electronic music producers

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, DJ

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, producer and DJ Stonebridge, musician Dave Audé, and American vocalist

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. Her singles have consistently ranked on dance and club charts nationally and internationally. These include Out of Nowhere, a collaboration with StoneBridge, which ranked in the top 30 most played songs on US dance radio in 2015, Your Love with Kid Kenobi and Justin Hunter which ranked No. 3 on the ARIA Club Charts for six consecutive weeks, ranked No. 2 on the Kiss FM Charts, and was played on

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and

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; Get What You Give with Alex Kenji and Manuel De La Mare (

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) which ranked No. 17 on the

Progressive house Progressive house is a subgenre of house music that emerged in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by its evolving, melodic Musical form, structures, subtle Transition (music), transitions, and layered sound design.Gerard, ...

chart on

Beatport Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards disk jockey, DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that ...

; Promise Me which ranked No. 1 on Track It Down for over four weeks and in the Top 10 on

; Like A Flame which was released in July 2015 with

and was featured on in House Sessions in

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; Teardrop with Sydney Blu which ranked No. 13 on DMC World Magazine's Buzz Chart, ranked in Top 40 on

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Dance Charts, and was featured on the album Relentless which ranked in the top 20 on

and in the top 40 on the

Dance Charts; I Need A Miracle which ranked No. 4 on Juno Downloads; Can You Feel Me (

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) which ranked No. 5 on the Australian radio charts and was featured on

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: Volume 4 compilation which ranked No. 3 on the

ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA beca ...

; I Think I'm in Love in collaboration with the

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(

); Champagne Nights with the

Stafford Brothers Stafford Brothers are Australian DJs and producers from the Gold Coast, Queensland known for blending the genres of house, electro, and progressive house music. Currently based in Los Angeles, California, the brothers were the first electron ...

which was released on

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; Would Not Change a Thing with Soul Conspiracy which ranked No. 1 on

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; Black Rain, written with American house producer

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, for which Wilson produced the Naked Remix which then debuted on

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; Stop The World with Ralph Good (

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and

Kontor Records Kontor Records is a record label based in Hamburg, Germany. The label's artist roster includes ATB, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Scooter. Jens Thele is the head manager of Kontor and is also the manager of Scooter. Edel SE & Co. KGaA is th ...

) which ranked No. 3 on the EDM charts in Canada, ranked on

's Top 100 House charts, and featured on the

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official compilation, and the Kontor House of House compilation; Where You Are which was released on Japan's Sushi Records and ranked No. 3 on the

Charts; and I'll Give You The World with

Quix Jonathan Paul Fredrick Schnell, known professionally by his stage name Quix (stylised in all caps), is a New Zealand DJ and electronic music producer. Since 2020, he has also been a part of the electronic music duo known as Tiger Drool, alongsid ...

which ranked No. 21 in Spotify's New Music Friday Cratediggers playlist and was featured on

Apple Music Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users can select music to stream to their device on-demand, or listen to existing playlists. The service also includes the sister internet radio stations Apple Musi ...

Germany Dance: The A-List,

Germany Dance: Hot Tracks,

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Canada Dance: The A-List,

Trap/Future Bass: Staff Picks, and Aoki's House Radio Show on

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BPM. Wilson released her first solo record Crazy Beautiful in 2015. She also hosted and produced her own radio show Just Wanna Dance during prime time on Saturday evenings in Australia, in addition to hosting fashion, music and television events. In 2018, Wilson released the track Chasing, in collaboration with Shaun Warner, which ranked No. 32 on the Billboard Club Dance Chart.

Live performances and festivals

Wilson has performed live at international music festivals, including

Creamfields Creamfields is an electronic dance music festival series founded and organised by British club promoter Cream, with its UK edition taking place on August Bank Holiday weekend, with a number of international editions held across various territo ...

and Summerfieldayze. She has performed on the world's largest floating music festival The Groove Cruise in 2016 (

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) and (Miami /

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) and 2015 (Los Angeles / Catalina Island), on the main stage at California's Sundown Music Festival on

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. She has supported

Kelly Rowland Kelendria Trene Rowland (born February 11, 1981) is an American singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the world's List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling gir ...

Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa (sometimes stylized as Salt 'N' Pepa) is an American hip-hop, hip hop group formed in New York City in 1985, that comprised Salt (rapper), Salt (Cheryl James), Pepa (rapper), Pepa (Sandra Denton), and DJ Spinderella (Deidra Roper). ...

Kaskade Ryan Gary Raddon (born February 25, 1971), better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ, music producer and remixer. ''DJ Times'' voted Kaskade as "America's Best DJ" in 2011 and 2013. ''DJ Magazine, DJ Mag'' named Kaskade fifty-fi ...

, and James Morrison, and performed at Pacha Ibiza supporting

David Guetta Pierre David Guetta (; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and record producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify. Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag ...

, in

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supporting

CeCe Peniston Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston (; born September 6, 1969) is an American singer and former beauty queen. In the early 1990s, she scored five number one hits on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Her signature song " Finally" re ...

, in Japan supporting

Steve Aoki Steven Hiroyuki Aoki ( , ; born November 30, 1977) is an American DJ and record producer. In 2012, Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest-grossing electronic dance music artist in North America from tours. In 2024, Gold House recognized him as ...

, at

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in London supporting

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, and at various venues in London supporting The Freemasons,

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, and

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. She has also performed at renowned Los Angeles clubs Sound and Avalon, as well as distinguished London venues Pacha and Turnmills. She has performed live on Good Morning Australia, live on radio in Europe,

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and Australia, and performed live multiple times in the United States, Russia,

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, and

, performed for

Japan,

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in New Zealand, and at venues in France, Singapore, and across her native country Australia, including performances for the

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, Australia and the

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, Russia.

Use in media

In 2011, Wilson co-wrote and recorded the new anthem Everybody (Hala Madrid) with the

for the Real Madrid Football Club. In 2017, her track Your Love with Kid Kenobi and Justin Hunter was featured on the Logie Award-winning Australian drama series

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. Additional tracks were featured on international television channel

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Discography

Awards and nominations

In 2013, Wilson was nominated along with the Gowrie Boys for Film Clip of the Year at the

National Indigenous Music Awards The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA), also known as the NT Indigenous Music Awards from 2004 to 2008, are music awards presented to recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians in ...

for Tomorrow's Heroes, and was a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition and the Queensland Music Awards. In 2015, she was nominated for both Artist of the Year and the People's Choice Awards in the Gold Coast Music Awards. In 2016, she was nominated along with the Gowrie Boys in the Queensland Music Awards for Won't Let You Go. In 2020, JVMIE was awarded a mini grant fro
HOTA Rage Against The Virus Fund
to create an album in isolation with film composer, Lionel Cohen while affected by the

COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

External links

JVMIE Official Website

JVMIE on SoundCloud

JVMIE on Spotify
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References

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