let's find out a bit about james newman
at where did you grow up were you from
well i was born in a little village
called stamp earth in the Yorkshire
Dales
which is like three hundred people and
then we moved down the road to the big
town which is two thousand people and
that's called settle oh and it's a in
the right in the middle of the beautiful
yorkshire dales national park and when
did music cut a big come part of your
life is that in school or how did it
happen
well my mum always used to play Motown
every morning we'd get up she'd be like
dancing around to Diana Ross over and up
she's not a good fun it's pretty cool
like soul music and pop music so it's
been like a big part of our lives middle
school and then started doing the talent
shows and but obviously didn't have a
band or anything so I just stand and
sing Westlife songs a cappella then I
went slight music college and then it
kind of went from there really and the
songwriting I do like when did you start
taking that really serious leak I mean
people who don't know you've won a Brit
you've been nominated for Grammys I mean
this is a big deal yeah so how did that
come about well mr. London and I kind of
started working in pubs and bars and
stuff like my friend Sophie her little
brother had just started like a band and
my little brother moved down and they
became friends we all became friends
then they wrote a song called feel the
love for rudimental
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the production group was really rental
and the Milo brothers jump yeah so then
I was like I need to write song that's
simple but not me oh you did yes in a
restaurant era and the hook for we're in
all night which was really when I won a
Brit Award
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so I sent me and my friend Johnny
ghostwrite we wrote it in his little mum
and dad's house in his little studio
sent it to rudimental and then they were
like yes lovey our single one week I was
working in a restaurant next night had a
number one single on it was on the radio
as I was finishing my last shift
oh that was felt so good one of your big
hits was with Ed Sheeran now how does
that happen is there kind of like a some
sort of weird factory pods where songs
go for each year and or my brother was
friends with him and then we just became
friends and I'd written the song for
regimental and they took it out live and
they were playing it on tar when they
were supporting it I was with that one
day and he said I love that song and I
was like you should sing it he's really
hurting it and things that I'd love to
him I'm gonna say came down to the
senior and it's such a massive
compliment that he came down and
recorded my son
I just you know you're doing it yeah it
was like go for it
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