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

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

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

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-winning producer

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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 Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of prescr ...

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

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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

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. Simultaneously, Wilson began her career writing and recording music. Wilson went on to perform nationally and internationally, writing and recording multiple top-charting dance singles, and in 2016, she relocated to Los Angeles.

Collaborations and solo records

In 2016, Wilson collaborated with

-winning producer

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 ASCAP Pop Award and two-time

-nominated songwriter and producer

Tommy Faragher Thomas Edward Faragher is an American producer, composer, songwriter, singer, and arranger. He is originally from Redlands, California. Performer Faragher started his career as a singer and keyboardist with his family, who formed a group called ...

-nominated house musician

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-nominated electronic music producers

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-nominated DJ

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-nominated producer and DJ Stonebridge,

-winner musician

, 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

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Charts, and was played on Rage 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

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chart on

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; 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

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; 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 electro ...

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 Cr2 Records; Stop The World with Ralph Good (

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and

Kontor Records Kontor Records or Kontor New Media 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 ...

) which ranked No. 3 on the

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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

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

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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

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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 girl ...

Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa (also stylized as Salt 'N' Pepa or Salt 'N Pepa) is an American hip-hop group formed in New York City in 1985, that comprised Salt (Cheryl James), Pepa (Sandra Denton), and DJ Spinderella (Deidra Roper). Their debut album, ''Hot, C ...

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, and James Morrison, and performed at Pacha Ibiza supporting

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, 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" rea ...

, in Japan supporting

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, 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,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, 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 FashionTV.

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

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External links

JVMIE Official Website

JVMIE on SoundCloud

JVMIE on Spotify
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References

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