Jemma Mary Siles is an Australian singer/songwriter, actress and dancer. Her debut singles D.A.M.N. and Light Me Up, led her to win Australian Songwriter of the Year judged by APRA, Back to back in 2018 and 2019. Siles has worked with and featured on a Nervo and Wolfpack track, "Like Air" which has over 2.6 million streams on spotify alone.
Early life
Siles was born in 1997 in Melbourne, Victoria. She has been singing since she was six years old and taught herself piano. She has been songwriting since she was 13. Siles attended a few performing arts schools and by the age of 8 she landed the title role in the musical Annie, singing hit songs "Tomorrow" as a solo artist and "I think i'm gonna like it here" alongside Australian-Italian soprano singerGiuseppina Grech at the National Theatre, Melbourne. She continued performing as a solo artist and alongside other artists in front of hundreds of people at festivals and competitions. Siles went on to audition for an elite performing arts company. Her attendance at Patrick Studios Australia allowed her to not only continue to perform in front of these large audiences but also train with professional performers from all over Australia who taught her skills including multiple dance styles, singing and acting. She landed the role of Dance captain at her Performing Arts High School in 2015 after performing Lead in Godspell as Robin singing the hit song "day by day" in 2014. Siles later had difficult personal battles to overcome which caused her to put a pause on her performance career until late 2016 to early 2017.
Career
Siles initially gained attention after posting a cover on Facebook of Anne-Marie and Clean Bandit's "Rockabye" in January 2017 which was reposted by the Facebook pageRadio One and reached over half a million views in just a few weeks. She later posted a multitude of videos and reached almost 200,000 views on her own post of "Symphony " by Zara Larsson and Clean Bandit. Siles then went onto work with DJs Olivia Nervo and Miriam Nervoon the track"Like Air" which was released in December 2017. "Like air" reached over 1.8 million streams on Spotify alone by April 2018 and is played in major festivals all over the globe. In May 2018, Siles released her debut single. "D.A.M.N." which takes influence from Taylor Swift, Tove Lo and George Maple while still maintaining her own artistry. Siles went on to win Australian Songwriter Of The Year 2018, judged by APRA AMCOS and presented by the ASA. In late 2018 Siles supported Indiana Massara, Tayler Holder and Bad Zach on their tour of Australia. Siles has released her second single "Light Me Up".
