Jinder

UK based singer songwriter guitarist JINDER is a songwriter, storyteller and international touring musician based in the UK's pastoral Westcountry. Best known for his 2019 top 40 singles 'Overthinkers Anonymous' and 'Keep Me In Your Heart', the latter of which has been successfully covered by many other artists and features in 2019's international smash hit movie 'Fishermen's Friends', Jinder has released eleven critically acclaimed albums for five different labels, including Sony BMG and Universal. Following the analogue lo-fi folk noir of 2015's 'Traditional Dark' and the blues exposition of 2017's 'presents...Kingsize Blackfoot', February 2020 saw the release of Jinder's eleventh album. Titled after the seminal epoch of Russian poetry, 'The Silver Age' is a landmark album, filled with sweepingly beautiful arrangements and lush orchestration, carrying Jinder's trademark ruminative oblique narratives to the emotional shores of the listener on a dark wave of joy and, by turns, pain. Jinder's story begins with a childhood spent in the folk heartland of Warwickshire, sheltered by the rolling Avon Dassett hills and steeped in impromptu family jams with friends such as Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention. Pursuing a career in songwriting from the age of 14, Jinder founded alt/rock group Candlefire in his late teens, who subsequently signed to hip independent label One Little Indian in 2002 and scored a chart hit with single 'Sorrow Spreads Its Wings' later that year. After disbanding Candlefire in 2004, Jinder signed as a solo artist with fledgling Nottingham based indie Folkwit, releasing solo LPs 'Willow Park' and 'I'm Alive' in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Largely thanks to the support of Zane Lowe at BBC Radio One and celebrity endorsees such as Brian Wilson, Coldplay and Ryan Adams, Jinder signed to Sony BMG in late 2007 and formed The Mercurymen, an acoustic based trio of singer/songwriters, with Jinder joined by former Mickie Most proteges Simon Johnson and Gavin Wyatt. 2008 saw the release of the Mercurymen album 'Postcards From Valonia', accompanied by tours with Sinéad O'Connor, Deacon Blue and Level 42. The album received extensive support from BBC Radio Two, with the band recording interviews and live sessions for Johnnie Walker, Janice Long and Bob Harris amongst many others. After departing the Mercurymen in 2009 to return to solo work, Jinder signed to Universal Records as a staff songwriter and solo artist, releasing his bestselling solo album 'Crumbs of Comfort' through Universal in 2012. The album features Jinder's best known song, 'Keep Me In Your Heart' (also a hit for Aled Jones in 2014) and 'Let My Love Be Your Shelter', subsequently covered by TV star Nick Knowles on his UK top 20 chart album in 2018. Jinder's songs have also been recorded by Ridley Scott collaborator Lotte Mullan ('La La Love You'), former Christians songwriter and acclaimed solo artist Henry Priestman ('I Cried Today'), and classical crossover group Elysium III ('Keep Me In Your Heart'). After leaving Universal in 2014, Jinder chose to focus on his own label, Din Of Ecstasy, turning down an offer from Polydor in favour of putting his energies into self-releasing and building the cottage industry brand. The first fruits of this came in the form of 2015's lo-fi statement 'Traditional Dark', an eclectic record which abandoned any commercial major label mores, swinging from neo folk to country-rock to grunge style protest without pausing for breath. Recorded entirely to tape in a crumbling Westcountry cottage, the album drifts in and out of focus and challenges the listener at every step, garnering the best reviews for any Jinder release to date. 2016-2018 saw extensive touring in UK and Europe, plus collaborations with Billy Bragg, Henry Priestman and more, along with the release of Jinder's tenth album, 'Presents...KINGSIZE BLACKFOOT'. 2019 was a banner year for Jinder, following the top 40 chart success of 'Keep Me In Your Heart' and 'Overthinkers Anonymous' with another extensive tour throughout UK and Europe, and the release of further singles 'The Train To The Sky' and 'I Still Believe' to great success. 2020 sees the release of brand new album 'The Silver Age' and further touring and releases.